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I guess I'm not understanding...at what point would we be penalizing already-cooperative behavior? I can't think of many instances where someone would be paid

• Retra 11y ago
  What I mean is that you can't be paid to raise a child, but you can be paid to manipulate them through marketing. You won't get paid to pick of trash off the street, but you can get paid to produce things that produce street-prone trash. "And if you could pay someone to do something they normally wouldn't wouldn't they be merely passively not for it and not actively against that thing?" It doesn't matter. They might be actively against it, but if you pay them enough, they'll still do it. We -- as a society -- pay people to do things that nobody really wants to have happen except those who happen get paid to do it (like market cigarettes.) And there are things that everybody wants to have happen that almost nobody gets paid to do (like care for your family.) We're potentially using our economy to create problems rather than solve them.