The Iron Law of Incentive Design: Structure Beats Character

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When incentives are misaligned, the system produces the wrong outcome regardless of the intelligence or intentions of the people in it. Federal Express workers weren't lazy; investment clients weren't fools. The structures were wrong. Fix the structure, fix the outcome — and stop blaming the humans inside it.

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