Very insightful. Cheating's most likely to be worth the expense and risk when the marginal compensation for each iota of (perceived) performance is large, so t

Very insightful. Cheating's most likely to be worth the expense and risk when the marginal compensation for each iota of (perceived) performance is large, so those at or above that inflection point are likely to cheat the most. We hear constantly how governments are corrupted by power and thus markets are preferable; it helps to be reminded sometimes of how certain kinds of markets are prone to their own forms of corruption.