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Re:China’s Economic Growth Looks Strong, Maybe Too Strong by contingencies on Thursday January 18, 2018 @02:03PM (#16180202)
some other structural disincentive

Oh you mean like "play by the rules, have a nice life for you and your family" versus "capital punishment for you, and movement restriction and asset seizure for your family"?

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Re:China’s Economic Growth Looks Strong, Maybe Too Strong by dragonwriter on Thursday January 18, 2018 @02:17PM (#16180353)
Sure, if the punishment is perceived to be applied reliably and accurately.

If it's perceived to be applied in a spotty manner, according to shifting whims of the leadership as to issues of concern, and with favoritism that can see the guilty free and the innocent punished, then, no, that just incentivizes currying favor and trying to influence the leadership perception that drive where enforcement is and isn't focussed.

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