it's a matter of motivation

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If you agree most people need to be paid to do work, then we have no disagreement on the topic at hand, so there is no need to argue at all.

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I don’t believe I did. I was always talking about whether it was necessary to offer incentives to do jobs like waste collection or if they’d be done anyway in an ideal society.

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