Reminds me of a story in which a day care started charging fees for parents who were late picking up their kids. The behavior of the parents then changed, from

Reminds me of a story in which a day care started charging fees for parents who were late picking up their kids. The behavior of the parents then changed, from regarding tardiness as a moral failure, to viewing it as something they could pay for, whenever they wanted to, and therefore the amount of late parents increased. The way I heard it, the day care did not want this, and so they removed the fee. But the outlook of the parents had irrevocably changed, and since being late was now free, they started to be even more late. There was no going back. I believe that this is the study in question, but I have not verified whether my recollection above (of the story as it was told to me) matches the actual study: <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2587744_A_Fine_is_a_Price https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2587744_A_Fine_is_a...>