Larry's tastes, whether slight or great, are therefore summed with those of all other publishing workers and embodied in the evaluation of possible publishing industry alterations before any comparison with other industry proposals occurs. If Larry's views differ dramatically from the collective result, Larry will not necessarily like the final outcome. But the choice will reflect a fair balance of the tastes of all workers in both industries. Larry should vote as he likes, and if he does so, and all other workers do so as well, the collective implications noted earlier will apply. It follows that the war of each against all for who will benefit from innovations gives way to a community of shared interests.
Competition is replaced by cooperation.
Shortening work hours anywhere eventually benefits all. Improving work life anywhere eventually benefits all. Or, alternatively, teams could be assigned whose job was to develop potential innovations. The equity implications of this way to stimulate innovation, essentially assigning more resources to innovation and holding those who use them socially accountable, has more desirable human repercussions in our view. In. any event, in deciding on innovations that have been well characterized, each actor chooses between proposals however they wish, but everyone has an incentive in a participatory economy to choose what is best for the whole economy because that is what is best for all actors.