And nothing offends Twin Oakers faster than a suggestion that some work they do shouldn t be creditable. For one thing, we all do our share. If some people accumulate lots of vacation, it just means that they put in extra hours of work earlier. They didn t inherit labor credits from their grandparents or triple their vacation balance through investment and speculation. But more than that, I think there is a real difference between greed for money and the desire for labor credits.
Money represents consumption.
Labor credits represent time. If Twin Oakers long for labor credits, at least we re putting value where it belongs not on the pointless and harmful accumulation of excess wealth, but on the irreplaceable hours of our lives. It does work with a bit of room for slack. Some people keep track of the time they work to the last tenth of an hour. Others round up or down to the nearest hour in some cases, perhaps, more often up than down.