To be clear, I don’t mean “cancel everyone who has flaws and give no second chances.” Not at all. I mean *proportional* incentives; be more willing to help people the more helpful/constructive you think they are on net.
If you don’t use “desert” to refer to “the things it is smart to reward and punish people for”, ok, but you will still need concepts for the latter.
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Well, you can make it tautological: "reward people for the right things to reward them for to get X". But (1) they may not exist, (2) they may bear very little conceptual / non-tautological relationship to X, (3) the reward prescription itself may not be incentive-compatable.
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Ok, agreed, that’s a real possibility.
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(I get that Hamlet’s strategy is something like “kick up a stink until somebody notices the systemic problems” but I don’t think that’s outside the realm expressible in policy terms.)
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There may be method to it! One way to read him is as someone who can't square the personal and the political—who thinks there ought to be one principle for both, so that extreme self-examination on one gives laws for the other. Stoic Horatio has sympathy!
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