If as this writer claims, many housing complexes operate on collective meters, forcing them to install individual ones should be a priority. #PerverseIncentives https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/499557-load-limiting-confusion.html

Now we have a Labor government we can finally get to the bottom of the crappy privatisation contracts with Sydney bus services. Years of pain and not a thing done about it! Because that would have exposed this ludicrous situation of it being better for them financially to cancel a bus than let it run late. And other illogical non-incentives.
Please note, the article says they have financial incentives relating to customer service. I'm not sure if that covers complaints about canceled and late buses, but it would seem sensible for us to complain like Karens from Hell. (Please don't complain about the drivers though).
#NSW #SydneyBuses #PerverseIncentives

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/has-your-bus-been-cancelled-recently-here-s-one-hidden-reason-why-20230411-p5czh8.html?btis=&fbclid=IwAR0U7Rhq6PML4VrRTdXkSner3gU2n9JBZnyN_KuvaB8NiLL4uvygNvFqNek

@obra but look how red that bar is! There's a product manager somewhere who smashed their OKR last quarter! #perverseIncentives

@dmoonfire

Hi Joel,

We think this quote by you was most salient, validating suspicions expressed on Fedi almost a year ago that #Mastodon is being coopted to serve the #PopularityModel and #influencers with access to #botFarms:

> the "spirit of mastodon" is also to not show boosts and favorites until a toot is fully opened to discourage mob mentality and such, and yet the official app has those... It looks like a Twitter client

It ought to be fixed, asap.

#perverseIncentives

@josias @joel

@lightone
@joel

This will create #perverseIncentives that will affect all users

Popular people will get more popular.

It will mean that people will start focusing on the numbers which is not only a distraction from the message but means ppl will start saying things such as, "Please LIKE to show you care, or BOOST to share." wasting, characters read time and effort for all.

More network/server resources wasted expended on producing totals.

@Argus
Then there's a UBI that goes up slightly with age.

#environmentalStewardship #conservation #perverseIncentives #invasiveSpecies

This #Christmas, give a big thanks to all the people who fought against #Monsanto while being labelled #conspiracyTheorists.

They could be the reason you are not dead.

#corporations #perverseIncentives #sharePrice #revolvingDoor #politicalDonations #corporateStateTotalitarianism

The reason why a reverseLottery for the #extremelyWealthy is needed, is because it introduces #uncertainty - or "Constructive Ambiguity".

If everything #tax related is 'set in stone' so to speak, the extremely wealthy will hire the best #taxLawyers to go up to the thresholds of what is "#legal".

By introducing a #SlidingScaleOfUncertainty, those #perverseIncentives start to go out the window.

It just won't be worth playing these myopic #taxAvoidance tricks.

#constructiveAmbiguity #tax

@xerz
Have you seen "Take Back Your Power" (2017). Our civilisation literally doesn't know when to reduce its impact.

#takeBackYourPower #investigativeJournalism #electricGrid #documentary #film #filmsForAction #resistance #overconsumption #stimulus #bailout #perverseIncentives