There’s a famous book on it called Capital by Thomas Picketty. It’s one of the first economic books to approach a subject utilizing a data driven approach. It’s actually published not as a text book but as popular non fiction.
The story is more complicated than just rewarding people for work. You must make them work togetheron public works that don’t directly benefit them. But people usually tend to work together only when they’re paid a salary and this can only happen if there’s a leader and huge incentives for someone to take that leadership role.
The incentive for that leadership role is the ownership of human capital.
It’s the idea of becoming dirt rich is what drives people to do startups and form corporations.
The story is more complicated than just rewarding people for work. You must make them work togetheron public works that don’t directly benefit them. But people usually tend to work together only when they’re paid a salary and this can only happen if there’s a leader and huge incentives for someone to take that leadership role.
The incentive for that leadership role is the ownership of human capital.
It’s the idea of becoming dirt rich is what drives people to do startups and form corporations.