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To Summarize, Using Money To Motivate People Can Be A Double-edged Sword. For Tasks That Require Cognitive Ability, Low To Moderate Performance-based Incentives Can Help. But When The Incentive Level Is Very High, It Can Command Too Much Attention And Thereby Distract The Person’s Mind With Thoughts About The Reward. This Can Create Stress And Ultimately Reduce The Level Of Performance.

We Don't Really Want A Huge House, But We Want The House To Be Slightly Bigger Than Our Neighbors, And A Car That Is Bigger Than Our Neighbor's, And They're Going On Vacation That's Slightly More Expensive, And This Escalation Happens That Things Got Out Of Hand.

Because Cheating Is Easier When We Can Justify Our Behavior, People Often Cheat In Small Amounts: We Can Come Up With An Excuse For Stealing Post-it Notes, But It Is Much More Difficult To Come Up With An Excuse For Taking $10,000 From Petty Cash.

In A World Where Everyone Is Behaving Honestly, Any Dishonesty Constitutes A Big Infraction. But, In A World Where Many People Are Behaving Dishonestly, And The News Is Filled With Stories Of Their Infractions, Even Big Infractions Can Feel Small To The Perpetrator.

But Because Human Being Tend To Focus On Short-term Benefits And Our Own Immediate Needs, Such Tragedies Of The Commons Occur Frequently .