Why is it always assumed that somebody doesn't succeed because he can't, as opposed to he doesn't want to, or isn't incentivized to.
Mr Borland said he did not turn to the NFL for information, because the league "isn't incentivized to provide it...I don't think a soda company doesn't tell you a drink will make you fat, they tell you it tastes good".Around the time of the Super Bowl, my colleague wrote that American football "will not continue to be both as popular as it is now and as dangerous".
Clare Krusing, a spokeswoman for America's Health Insurance Plans, an industry trade group, told me in an e-mail, "If individuals are incentivized only to sign up for coverage when they need care, then that has a significant impact on affordability for everyone".
To which I can only say, sure, technically speaking, some number of chimpanzees, if properly incentivized, might be expected to churn out prose in a voice that would approximate my own.
Punishing individuals is especially important in the case of Wall Street, because one of the biggest problems in the run-up to the housing bubble was that individual traders and executives were incentivized to engage in behavior that was incredibly lucrative for them (since their bonuses were pegged to short-term performance) but incredibly destructive to their companies.
Ecotourism has incentivized the neighboring communities to protect rather than poach the animals, much more effectively than the hunting permits.
Groupon, he said, had incentivized procreation, an otherwise inexplicable act.
Salt had to be hauled a long way uphill from a faraway coast, and the Swiss authorities, for reasons best known to themselves, levied taxes according to the number of cheeses sold rather than their net weight, which incentivized the production of oversized wheels (the typical Emmentaler is three feet in diameter, weighs two hundred and twenty pounds, and uses one and a half tons of milk).
Companies that draw on natural resources are therefore heavily incentivized to externalize as many costs as possible while depleting nature with efficiency and speed.
The groups of white men that had constituted slave patrols a century before evolved into official, protected actors of the state, incentivized to use force to insure the existence of slavery.
It was about ending police corruption and brutality in those communities, and then infusing those communities with pathways out of inequality, out of underground economies, and away from the entrenched underground economies that could produce systemic crime and violence because people were incentivized to participate in it".
