RE: [ox-en] an idea looking for a home
- From: paul.7.saunders bt.com
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:44:00 -0000
But, i think it is not that simple. You ignore for example the fact of
necessity. If the job is hard, but if it is very necessary, to do it,
than N is smaller as if it is not so necessary.
And maybe there are more dimensions than this two (necessity,
hardness). And at the end we have a M-dimensional matrix which
influence your N and it is questionable what we have won than ;-)
But then of course we get to the point where someone gets annoyed with it
enough to do the job, no matter how hard or dirty, just because they can't
stand not having it the way it is anymore.
Paul
nus bigfoot.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Benni Bärmann [benni obda.de]
Sent: 14 December 2001 12:05
To: list-en oekonux.org
Subject: Re: [ox-en] an idea looking for a home
Hello,
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:00:04PM -0800, matt wrote:
The part
that sticks in my head is what I call (apologies to un-cited references)
the 'one out of N principal': whatever the task, no matter how trivial,
unpleasant or difficult, one out of N people will gladly do the job for
free. If it's a really dirty job, N is very large. If it's merely a
hard job N is smaller. If it's kind of interesting and useful, N is
pretty small.
Nice approach :-)
But, i think it is not that simple. You ignore for example the fact of
necessity. If the job is hard, but if it is very necessary, to do it,
than N is smaller as if it is not so necessary.
And maybe there are more dimensions than this two (necessity,
hardness). And at the end we have a M-dimensional matrix which
influence your N and it is questionable what we have won than ;-)
Benni
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