Issues with dowry laws

• People generally want to solve problems than to create harm, but those who want to harm get a lot more attention.

• While people can be taken advantage of, it can’t be done for an infinite period of time.

• Every ten years or so, there has to be some economi...

“Communication usually fails, except by accident.”

Osmo Wiio, a Finnish journalist, also made other laws of communication, such as:

• “If a message can be understood in different ways, it will be understood in just that way which does the most harm.”...

This myth argues that that bigger incentives, monetary or otherwise, will increase motivation and hence increase innovation productivity.

Incentives can help, but often they do more harm than good, as people learn to game the system.