Incentives are important in the short term.
- Incentives are important in the short term. Values are important in the long-term.
- A system driven only by incentives is amoral.
- It's when values enter the equation that long-term benefit of the whole can emerge.
- The modern world got in this hollowed out state partially from saying "screw it, local incentives are all that matter."
- There are a surprising number of places where the emergent result is still pretty good even only focusing on incentives, but not everywhere.
- We've lost our values.