Nobel, a wealthy Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite, provided few directions for how to select winners, except that the prize committees should reward those who "have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind".
States and territories will also lose access to reward payments for reducing waiting times under the national partnership agreement on improving public hospital services, saving the federal government $201m over three years.
The generation who grew up surrounded by acknowledgements that they had dignity, bravery and the capacity for greatness were, unsurprisingly, nifty voters - the first chance they got, they elected a government which promised to reward their sacrifices with a welfare state.
A narrow win for Bayern Munich on the night – and a comfortable Barcelona victory overall – was just reward for Luis Enrique's team, who were again wonderfully supple and incisive in attack when it mattered.
But voters seem keen to reward it for its ambition alone.
It was just reward for Inverness, who dominated at the Tulloch Caledonian Stadium.
HSBC said Flint's reward would be capped at 44% of his fixed pay, which was about £2.43m last year.
The result was illegal, of course, but it was also something of great value, produced cooperatively, and built in naked opposition to the expectations of in-kind reward that supposedly governed human behaviour in the capitalist age.
Despite RSPB appeals on the web and in local press, with an offer of a £1,000 reward, no one in the area has yet identified the perpetrators.
The charity Crimestoppers is offering up to £5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the shootings.
