I’m generally supportive of finding ways to better use the talent of teachers and if paying incentives is part of that, great. But this claim is pretty absurd.

I’m generally supportive of finding ways to better use the talent of teachers and if paying incentives is part of that, great. But this claim is pretty absurd. Imagine that payoffs (in a poorly designed system) are based on a random number generator. That won’t have any lasting, society-wide effect (I suspect you agree), but would result in some payouts. Incentive design is the difficult nut here, but if cracked, there’s a lot of value to the next generations.