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Just because they get paid for doing something doesn't make it a "market" economy. The Russians got paid to do lots of things (like build cars that didn't work). And I'm not sure they had much choice in the matter anyway.

That said, if you want to hold firm againt the alienation of labor, I guess you have a point.

(daddy, where do you go every day in the morning?)

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I keep waiting for my wife's relatives to do this, since they did it for her, but apparently they don't love her kids as much.

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I don't mean to shield my children from the reality that they'll have to work for a living someday, but I don't want them to think that they're doing their chores because they'll get paid. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need, etc.

making allowances
 

My son makes $50 a month sewing "Polo" labels onto my shirts with free canings if he asks to go to the bathroom.

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Ty can help them learn capitalism here

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It is like you are my parents, or at least went to the same Marx School for Raising Children.

You might want to rethink your strategy -- look how I turned out.


I am very bored and would like to go home and play with my kitten.

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You can't just close the office door?

Sigh. I miss Pepper.

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Right. If my kid learned that I don't make $200 a week we'd be forbidden from ordering from the dollar menu and sitting in the cheap seats he has been accustomed to.

Lowered expectations.
 

My daughter (almost 7) told me last week that I was funny. For a lawyer.

Oh sharper than a serpent's tooth!!!

P.S. - This was not meant to be its own thread.

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Nobody else seems to want to answer the questions, so . . .

My kids have the opportunity to earn a buck per week per grade they are in (e.g. when in 2nd grade they could earn 2 bucks). As they get into higher grades, this will likely end up with a multiple. I don't pay them per chore, but pay them if they have contributed to the family and done a reasonable amount of chores (there are also non-monetary consequences involved with not doing chores).

I fully believe in the alienation of labor and will pay them directly for doing extra work beyond their chores (e.g. picking up the branches from the ground after I've trimmed the shrubbery into the shape of large dollar signs and swans and whatnot).

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I see you decided to take my advice and not mention the "fashion industry camp" in Cambodia you send them to every summer. Wise move.

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nah

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I answered the question; my answer simply didn't please Ty.

Lowered expectations.
 

A one post personal thread... You godamn egomaniac.

Lowered expectations.
 

on a day when we've been sadly reminded how much damage one disgruntled lunatic can do, you're going to fuck with Ironweed? I bet this VT shit bought him another year at the firm.