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by DeepDuh 4918 days ago
Traditional incentives are often not as effective as you think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y

The best way to have motivated employees for creative tasks is to give them a high base salary, good working conditions and hire suiting ones in the first place. For repetitive jobs the incentives might work, but these are also the jobs where you should think about automation.