Open Source vs. Wall Street Bonuses

tcd004 sends in a piece from PBS NewsHour on money and what actually motivates people. "What best motivates the workforce? More money? Fame? New studies reveal that beyond a certain threshold, large financial rewards can actually become a drag on performance in the workplace. Reporter Paul Solman compares million-dollar Wall Street bonuses to the rewards earned by the labor force behind the open source community."

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Re:Real world already knows this

[OeLeWaPpErKe]

The problem is that wall-street lets people decide for themselves how much they want to earn.

A bit like all public sector people. The only ones really good at it though are these bastards.

And at least in the case of wall street, before the "too big to fail" nonsense and they became de-facto public sector banks, they had a bit of a case that they were actually useful.

Re:people who do less useful work earn more

[Hognoxious]

Parkinson's Law is the adage first articulated by Cyril Northcote Parkinson as the first sentence of a humorous essay published in The Economist in 1955: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Sorry, what does that have to do with anything?

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That's what. Claptrap like that always gets modded up - it goes down a treat with the peanut gallery.