Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Andrew Jason Cohen
“If you reward people for (pretending to) throw away crumpled pieces of paper, they’ll do so. If you reward people for (seeming to) have a child drowning, you should expect more kids to appear to be drowning. If you reward people for making kids worse off, they’ll do so. Something similar may be going on now with therapy. When we encourage people to go to therapy and treat them kindly for it, they feel rewarded. The result? We incentivize more therapy. In part, this may be a good thing. More people may need therapy then currently get therapy and some that do likely could use more. The worry is that we may be overdoing the incentives.” (05/06/24)
https://prosociallibertarians.substack.com/p/therapy-and-incentives