An incentive for property X (for humans) usually functions via selection, not via behavior change. A couple of consequences:
In small populations, even strong incentives for X may not get you much more of X, since there isn’t a large enough population for there to be much deviation on X to select on.
It’s pretty pointless to tell individual people to “buck the incentives”, even if they are principled people who try to avoid doing bad things, if they take your advice they probably just get selected against.
An incentive for property X (for humans) usually functions via selection, not via behavior change. A couple of consequences:
In small populations, even strong incentives for X may not get you much more of X, since there isn’t a large enough population for there to be much deviation on X to select on.
It’s pretty pointless to tell individual people to “buck the incentives”, even if they are principled people who try to avoid doing bad things, if they take your advice they probably just get selected against.