I think incentives are an important part of society. Incentives can be good or bad depending on the person and what it is. The two aspects of incentives are the value ($100 vs $10) and utility (how useful it is to you). I often try to give myself incentives to help motivate myself to complete tasks. At my job, they give us the incentive of if we do a good task or a good job, we get a ticket entered into a raffle they pull each month for a $100 certificate as well as a $100 bonus on our pay checks. Another incentive we have is for every underage gambler we catch (I work at a casino), you also get $100. A small issue with this is that someone could see a young adult attempting to gamble and let it happen just so that they can get the bonus, when in reality they are supposed to be stopping them PRIOR to gambling. I found a neat little video that talks about incentives in the past.
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Hello, Alexandra. I thought it was really interesting how you mentioned the way incentives work at your job. It really does reinforce a person to work hard if they know they will be rewarded. It reminds me of how I work harder in school to get high grades, knowing my hard work will pay off if I put in the effort. I suppose it is human nature to seek reinforcement of some kind as it is how we learn! Great job on your post.
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