There is a strange paradox I noticed with activists and incentives. Basically they manage to incentivise being "unethical" and punish being "good" unless they a

There is a strange paradox I noticed with activists and incentives. Basically they manage to incentivise being "unethical" and punish being "good" unless they are perfect. By being just the stick the relationship becomes adversarial and discourages any actual fixes. If you concede then that begets more demands as they feel empowered. More radical demands follow and it is never enough. If they basically tell them to get bent they either get discouraged or wind up background radiation and ignored anyway as they expect that sort of thing. How many scandals have hit say Nestle and Johnson and Johnson? Yet you never see calls to nationalize or break them up.