[mseebach]

> If this works on the level of a firm, would it work on the level of a whole society?

Well, while Valve employees work the the things they want and like, they have been carefully selected to want and like the same thing as Valve. "Society" doesn't have a very hard hiring process designed to only allow high-quality individuals in, at the expense of a high rate of false negatives, and if a society had the same access to "fire" it's members, even Iran would think it was a bit over the top.

[king_jester]

As it stands right now, society doesn't value certain kinds of output from people. In a scenario where scarcity is no longer a problem for basic human needs, the idea of having valuable kinds of output isn't so important any more. Valve still exists in a world where it needs to accumulate money in order to keep operating and producing software, so it does have a need to filter its hires based on certain metrics.