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A few of the suggestions are about making new financial incentives. But the problem in the first place is the financial incentive structures! It's much better t
by boxed 4y ago
A few of the suggestions are about making new financial incentives. But the problem in the first place is the financial incentive structures! It's much better to let people do their jobs and not have a bunch of incentives. We know this is true for programmers, why do people expect it's not true about everyone else?
- robertlagrant 4y agoGenerally people do work for money.
- boxed 4y agoYes. But not per line of code. Or per bug fixed.
- poszlem 4y agoBecause if you don't add money as incentive the only other strong incentive is for people who join the social sciences because they want to push some kind of policy that they feel strongly about (In this case, their personal beliefs and values serve as their incentive). There is even a joke among psychologists that people who join psychology departments are mostly those who themselves need psychotherapy (and they choose to study psychology instead).
- pclmulqdq 4y agoThere are lots of incentives to be a programmer today, and incentives are known to be involved in engineering decision making (hence the common criticism of resume-driven development).
- boxed 4y agoThe incentive is "have a job". Idiotic incentives are "paid per number of lines written", "paid by bugs solved", etc. That's what I'm talking about.