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Now, this really ought not to need a Ted Talk to point out. The incentives are all wrong: they discourage collaboration of the sort which obviously will help in solving the problem. | Now, this really ought not to need a Ted Talk to point out. The incentives are all wrong: they discourage collaboration of the sort which obviously will help in solving the problem. | ||
But the puzzle isn’t understanding that “autonomy, mastery, and purpose” motivate people more than a bit of extra cash — who didn’t, instinctively, know that? — but why our corporate overlords who, in their reflective moments, surely know it as well, ignore this plain, a priori fact. | But the puzzle isn’t understanding that “autonomy, mastery, and purpose” motivate people more than a bit of extra cash — who didn’t, instinctively, know that? — but why our corporate overlords who, in their reflective moments, surely know it as well, ignore this plain, ''[[a priori]]'' fact. | ||
As ever, the [[JC]] has a theory: it is all about personal incentives. In the same way that the average wage-slave’s major motivator during her career is ''[[fear]]'' — and her primal instinct is the covering of her own behind, what propels the captains of our industry — being those who have overcome [[fear]], hubris, a lack of absolute conviction in ones own value etc. — is ''personal glory'', and seeing as, like all complicated and beautiful things, it is hard to convey the idea of “glory” in the abstract to the uncomprehending masses who will never have it, that faithful old [[second-order derivative|stand-in]] for glory, ''enrichment'', will have to do. | As ever, the [[JC]] has a theory: it is all about personal incentives. In the same way that the average wage-slave’s major motivator during her career is ''[[fear]]'' — and her primal instinct is the covering of her own behind, what propels the captains of our industry — being those who have overcome [[fear]], hubris, a lack of absolute conviction in ones own value etc. — is ''personal glory'', and seeing as, like all complicated and beautiful things, it is hard to convey the idea of “glory” in the abstract to the uncomprehending masses who will never have it, that faithful old [[second-order derivative|stand-in]] for glory, ''enrichment'', will have to do. | ||