For love nor money

At one stage the neocon revolution that Maggie Thatcher seemed to have started seemed set to monetise all human experience, which seemed to be a bleak prospect. Money can be a useful servant but ...

Money can trivialise work. It can demean what you are doing and offering. Pay creative people for their creative ideas and they can dry up. Pay children to get better exam grades and they think they are studying only for the money. You diminish and demean the joy of the activity, of learning for its own sake. Money often makes the intrinsic extrinsic: it can make motivation more dependent on money. So, paradoxically, money has to be the motivator.

I think there's a reflection on obliquity to be had here.
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