Why The World Sucks
By Daniel Miessler on November 11th, 2006: Tagged as General
A recent article from Reason Magazine on why poor countries stay poor captured something priceless; here’s the best sentence in the entire article, but you should read the whole thing:
The problem is that Cameroon, like other poor countries, is a topsy-turvy place where it’s in most people’s interest to take actions that directly or indirectly damage everyone else.This is really the key. Freakanomics taught me this lesson; tracking incentives really does show you the reason systems function they way they do. One of the primary functions of a good culture and society should be to create an incentive system that benefits the group rather than hurts it.
Follow the incentives and you’ll find the truth.
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