Economy: July 2004 Archives

Che Guevara and the "1/n Challenge"

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By Alejandro Reuss

There are enormous advantages to teamwork. People working jointly can accomplish more with the same effort than the same people could accomplish working individually. Compare, for example, the amount of water 100 people can move if organized in a fire line compared to the amount that they could move by running around with their own buckets. But any group activity also raises the problem of how to divide the benefits. One simple, and fair-sounding, solution is to give each participant an equal share.

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