The material rewards are not the only attraction.
The material rewards are minimal, but there is, it is clear, a deeper satisfaction to be had from building a life in a place like this.
These feelings of uncertainty about territory, status and power where material rewards are unevenly distributed and are continually shifting, leave people on insecure ground, which encourages the erection of boundaries.
There are the predictable academic caveats and qualifiers, including the need to further study why this actually happens — if, for example, salivary responses to material rewards are conditioned early in our development.
When "people feel that material rewards are being dangled before them like carrots on a stick, they come to feel externally controlled a primary damper of intrinsic motivation," the authors write in the HBR Blog Network post.
Material rewards are a subsequent result of the quality of our spiritual nourishment.
Occasional rewards for a special project done really well can be a great boost but regular material rewards are best avoided.
Interpreting the spectrum is rendered more difficult by literature that shows that in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa it is sex given without material reward that is perceived to be demeaning for women [ 14, 15].
A protective context that offers material rewards can be a potentially helpful prerequisite (although not yet proven; see [ 27]).
