Once you introduce incentives, you cannot test whether people would have performed without them — creating a permanent dependency you can never remove
The fundamental problem with incentive systems is irreversibility — once incentives are in place, you can no longer establish whether the behavior would have occurred naturally, creating a dependency that's impossible to unwind.
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Incentive Dependency — No Way Back Once You Start
Once you introduce incentives, you cannot test whether people would have performed without them, creating a permanent dependency