- [<] Status Log - created:: 2022-01-23 - status-updated:: 2021-07-09 - status-updated:: 2022-02-20 cleaned it up and added some quick thoughts. - current-status:: #articleseed/essay or #articleseed/thoughts - [S] Marketing - purpose:: this is a big philosophical point I make often, so it would wind up as cornerstone content - [Healthy goals are difficult to measure - by Josh Duffney - The Knowledge Worker](https://www.knowledgeworker.blog/p/healthy-goals-are-difficult-to-measure/comments#comment-2126221) - [ ] Turn [https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1413176890219708417](https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1413176890219708417) into a thing related it to standardized testing, and use it for a microfiction story #articleseed/afterword #storystem/fic - [ ] [[Misaligned Incentives]] [https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1412428330792542209](https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1412428330792542209) the legal field selects more for people who sound confident and are good at marketing than people who are likely to be correct :< since most of the time nothing "bad" happens to them when they're wrong. It's a case of misaligned incentives I would happily pay back $75k on the $50k loan I took out for law school, but I’ll never be able to pay back $350k that’s ever growing, so I minimize the amount I pay back at all and they’ll probably never actually get close to $75k out of me. Misaligned incentives - porn of snow white okay because of parody, but showing snow white to a class of fifteen students is illegal because it's "competing" with movie theaters. on "slow news days" there are incentives for clickbait and outrage porn. --- One of the hardest things to design in a fantasy world area the inbuilt misaligned incentives that drive our would. Designing bad systems is hard, but not only are they realistic, that are important drivers if conflict and narrative tension. Plus, storytelling is how we teach important lessons, and misaligned incentives are critical to understand so we can do better to guard against them. See also: [Tokenomics How to Design Economies for Crypto Games](https://departmentofplay.net/tokenomics-how-to-design-economies-for-crypto-games)