Incentives, Disincentives and Spoiled Brat Syndrome

charles hugh smith-Incentives, Disincentives and Spoiled Brat Syndrome

One of my carpentry masters was an African-American gent from New Orleans. Back in the early 1970s when I first began working for him and his partner (a Caucasian gent), he told me that how he’d found work in tough times was to approach the foreman of a construction project, point to a worker on the site and say that he could do more work than that guy.

The foreman would give him a once-over and put him to work. The next day, the other guy would be gone and my boss would have his job.

That’s called getting and holding a job based on output and nothing else.

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