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Well, I think with the right incentives, we could have better outcomes and save lives. Meaning that with for profit, there is at least a pathway to new ways of

• mola 4y ago
  Yeah like kickbacks. This naive view that incentives engineering could somehow fix the fact that a profit oriented creature means that any other value become subjugated to profit. Ppl are amazing at optimizing for stuff, especially stuff you can measure. If you throw away the non tangible values of decency truth fairness freedom, in favor of the very tangible value of money you'll get corporations working hard to maximize their profit in any way imaginable, including twisted lobbying to rewrite the incentives and outright kickbacks. We see this happen again and again and again, and still the "incentive engineers" want to try one more time.