Help ID a book - SF that I read in 82 and remember very little of

Post date: 2020-05-22 02:05:51

Trying to ID an SF novel that I probably read around 82 or 83 and probably got from the Yongsan Army Library in Seoul, Korea. Very sure it was SF, and possibly dystopian or post-apocalyptic but not certain. All I really remember is one idea about people being paid for work based on a set of various factors.

I think it was near the end where it had the idea of a society (and I think it might have been a village or small city) where pay was determined by various factors like how necessary the job was to society but also things likes the hours worked.

So of course doctors got paid more because they heal people but people who worked at night got paid more for having weird hours. I'm sure there were more examples but they didn't stick.

That's not much to go on so Google hasn't been useful. Hopefully someone read the book and will remember more. In the mean time I'm looking over lists of books from the 70s/80s and hoping a brain cell will fire when I see a cover or read a description.

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