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A law has to pass the rigorous test of court. Soft pressure just has to get a mob going on.

> Like the strange and consistent finding that people are shockingly unmotivated by monetary incentive

I find that hard to believe. Maybe again there's some strange societal pressure against voicing that money is a motivation.




I would guess what GP is referring to is something along the lines of this book: https://www.danpink.com/books/drive/

IIRC, the idea is just that money only goes so far up Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Once our material well-being is taken care of, we want mastery and autonomy and incentives geared that way are more effective than money.




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