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Re:Rank-reversal aversion may be causing more social problem... by ameister14 on Saturday July 15, 2017 @01:57PM (#14777956)
Sure, but I'm saying that the social reward system and the profit reward system are roughly equivalent in my mind, while the necessity one is superior to both.

If you remove the risk, that changes the calculation too, definitely. That's much harder to do, though, than increasing the reward opportunity or the perception of reward opportunity. Do I believe it is worthwhile to move in that direction? Certainly, but it's frankly impossible to administrate that solution today.

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Re:Rank-reversal aversion may be causing more social problem... by naasking on Sunday July 16, 2017 @09:58AM (#14781975)
> If you remove the risk, that changes the calculation too, definitely. That's much harder to do, though, than increasing the reward opportunity or the perception of reward opportunity.

I'm not convinced that's true. It hasn't really been tried, and we know that financial incentives make people's work worse through psychological studies, so it's frankly worth trying for that reason alone.

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