Comments on: Money for love – Eeeeeethaan, you don't have to put on the red light http://sharing-nicely.net/2010/05/money-for-love-ethaaaan-you-dont-have-to-put-on-the-red-light/ Philipp Schmidt's shared learnings Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8 By: Philipp Schmidt http://sharing-nicely.net/2010/05/money-for-love-ethaaaan-you-dont-have-to-put-on-the-red-light/#comment-101 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:12:27 +0000 http://bokaap.net/?p=627#comment-101 The Ariely example is fascinating. I had read his book a while ago and it’s influenced my thinking on this topic. I also recently came about this beautiful and insightful drawn animation about autonomy, mastery, and purpose. It mentions a few other studies where money decreased (creative) performance.

]]> By: Ari Bader-Natal http://sharing-nicely.net/2010/05/money-for-love-ethaaaan-you-dont-have-to-put-on-the-red-light/#comment-100 Wed, 19 May 2010 05:03:19 +0000 http://bokaap.net/?p=627#comment-100 Hi Philipp,
You may want to take a look at Andy Oram’s post on O’Reilly Radar last week (Crowdsourcing and the challenge of payment). Very relevant discussion.

Perhaps an alternative to the Wikipedia example is the Mozilla model, where some contributors are paid employees and others are unpaid volunteers. It may be worth checking in with some Mozilla folks about their experiences with that model.

Dan Ariely has an interesting discussion in Predictably Irrational on what happens when a transaction moves between the social sphere (gift economy) and the commercial sphere (market economy). I think it suggests the importance of drawing a clear line between what is paid and what is unpaid. Seems like idea #2 makes a nice distinction, but #1 and #3 leave everything on the paid side of the line.

Some food for thought.
-Ari

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