I think this is about providing positive vs. negative incentives. My parents have never really given me any kind of regular allowance through my childhood, and

I think this is about providing positive vs. negative incentives. My parents have never really given me any kind of regular allowance through my childhood, and very little irregular allowance (less than $50 a year) -- probably because they were poor when I was young. They got better during my teens, but that didn't improve my financial situation. They did require doing lots of house chores, though, and I would have been yelled at and punished if I didn't do them, with no reward for good behaviour. When you was positively incentivized to do more work, I only grew up a barrier around me, and learned to totally ignore their rules, punishments, screams and their authority as a whole. Also, now I really detest the chores I was tasked with most often (vacuuming, surface cleaning, dish washing), while have no problem with ones I never had to do, like laundry or ironing.