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Designing a system based on the assumption of internal motivation is like fighting crime by asking people to just be nice. You need incentives, positive and neg
by wlievens 17y ago
Designing a system based on the assumption of internal motivation is like fighting crime by asking people to just be nice. You need incentives, positive and negative, to base any system on, especially one with millions of actors: an economy.
- sp332 17y agoAre you saying that, without laws, people would never get out of bed in the morning? Some people are self-motivated to do crime, some to do more productive things.
- wlievens 17y agoI'm saying that it's a bad basis for society to assume people behave efficiently (in a socio-economical context) without the right incentives. And I don't mean to make that sound like there's an ogre whipping them. Suggested reading: Freakonomics :-)
- req2 17y agoCrime is a zero sum game. That is enough to need disincentives for crime. No one is really worse off if Dylan decides to stop recording.
- Zaak 17y agoI would say that crime is most often a negative sum game. For example, a person pays tens of thousands of dollars getting a lead roof installed. Another person comes along and steals the lead from the roof and sells it as scrap for a few hudred dollars. Value has been destroyed, both because the lead was more valuable as a roof than as scrap, and also because of the damage to the building which happened because it was no longer protected from the weather.