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The Incentive is better than the threat — Don't drive the horse with a whip, but with oats.
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An Incentive is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing.
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Incentive is a powerful political tool. Problems are often solved by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.
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