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		riehwvfbk 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moody’s strips U.S. of triple-A credit rating That taken to an extreme, this idea is the same as "from everyone according to their ability, to everyone according to their needs". Which sounds great, until you realize that this incentivizes needs and disincentivizes abilities.

margalabargala 3 months ago [–]

Which really is just a manifestation of "when a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a useful metric".

There are ways to disentangle the undesirable incentives. The Nordic countries in particular have done a great job of this.

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