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Money is a powerful incentive.

• robocat 2y ago
  Except for 99% psych studies showing that it is a poor incentive[1]. Talking to a person doing hotel reservations today - his personal incentives were to do give quality service (unfortunately the managers incentives were financially misaligned with that!). Most job satisfaction seems to be derived from internal incentives and money is not that good in my experience. Maybe different in the USA from New Zealand. [1] see psych reproducability studies.
  • ericjmorey 2y ago
    All of that is demonstration that money isn't an ideal means of incentive, but I have never worked a job without getting paid despite being asked many times to do exactly that.
  • adamc 2y ago
    No, that demonstrates that the monetary delta wasn't a good incentive. But I challenge you to find a lot of people working jobs without pay. There are some, if they have independent means, but not many. Likewise, most fiction authors expect at least the potential to make an income if enough people read their book -- etc. There are other incentives, for sure. Evidently not enough of them attract Debian contributors.