>Over time, and in groups, people can only be expected to operate based on the incentives and disincentives that are presented to them No, this is missing the

>Over time, and in groups, people can only be expected to operate based on the incentives and disincentives that are presented to them No, this is missing the core reason due to believing in an inherent order or that implementing the "right" incentives is the solution. The real core is that humans are sometimes irrational. This irrational behavior is why economists are regularly wrong (on both macro and micro scales, from recessions to struggling to understand why an incentive/disincentive is ineffective when it should from all other testing), and the core as to why groups can't stick to Do The Right Thing.