What Capitalists Get Wrong About Human Motivation

If money was the only thing, we’d all be in a small list of careers.

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Making money is only one purpose of work. It’s not even the most important purpose. People have always worked, even before we dreamed up the concept of money.

The thing capitalists get completely wrong is their assumption that everyone is motivated by money. It makes sense, of course — that’s what motivates them. So if mo…