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All I'm saying is that policy should encourage the better option, not the most debilitating option.



getting back to my original metaphor:
if you penalize people for diligence, you will get less diligence.
if you reward diligence, you'll get more of it.

Whether we see the wealth of a nation coming from manufacturing or service industries or whatever, I think the true wealth of a nation is the diligence of its population. Where diligence is encouraged, people step up and solve problems at every level in the system.

Where diligence is not encouraged, people step back and do not perform, placing responsibility on bureaucrats.. which is exactly where you DON'T want responsibility to rest, because they don't care.

Last edited by Pat Marr; 03/17/10 09:52 AM.
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