Show Me the Incentive, I’ll Show You the Outcome

About this episode

Cory Doctorow discusses the implications of incentives on policy outcomes in his latest column.

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus Magazine column, “Show Me the Incentive, I’ll Show You the Outcome,” about the process by which we ended up with an enshittogenic policy environment: The whole point of the conservative project is to take away choices, and corral us into “preferences” that we disprefer. Eliminate... more

People in this episode

Host: Cory Doctorow

Topics covered

• incentives
• policy
• conservatism
• choices
• preferences

Keywords

• incentive
• policy
• conservative project
• choices
• preferences

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Locus Magazine

Books & works: Show Me the Incentive, I’ll Show You the Outcome

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