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by tajen 3897 days ago
Should we really keep using the word "incentive"? It keeps presenting any success as something that doesn't belong to them. If they've worked hard for it, it's theirs, whatever the incentives.
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My native language somewhat lacks this word. The translation exists but is mostly too clumsy for use.

Our nation is also infamous for lacking ambition and fostering perverce incentives. I think all of these things are connected. Wittgenstein would probably agree.