Incentives Shape Civilization
Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome. Cultures do not drift; they respond — predictably — to what they reward and punish.
Incentives are the gravity of human systems.
Good people in bad systems produce bad results, reliably. This essay is a placeholder in the local scaffold. When PRISM is connected to Ghost, the full piece is authored and published there, and this page renders the live content automatically.
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