Incentive

Incentives shape human behavior. They are the signals, rewards, and constraints that guide decisions, often more powerfully than abstract rules or ideals. To understand a community, an institution, or an economy, one must ask: > What incentives are at work here?

Or more annoyingly: > You would say that wouldn't you?

Such questions demand that you listen closely to the other, but not simply what they say. You listen to how they show up in the world in equal measure to what drives them internally (and externally). You paint a rich picture.

The study of economics is part of a family of dark arts that we can refer to as empathy. Here we take the term empathy not as it is used in common parlance, but techncally (as it was originally intended). To understand what makes you tick, is in part to understand your incentives in this broader sense.

Much of social design — from governance to education to technology — is the art of arranging incentives so that cooperation, trust, and flourishing emerge naturally. However uncomfortable it is to explore. # See - Incentive - Wikipedia: wikipedia .