Over history, there have been many incentives provided to humans to ensure they work well, are happy, and do good things. They include capitalism, communism, and many others. They can be simple, but also very complex. For example, a Stone Age incentive might be the fact that you get a very shiny seashell for every mammoth you kill. As human needs and wants evolve, you might be providing different things, like a cure-all currency that can but anything (money). Human incentives throughout history have been one of the defining factors of success in a country. Countries with bad incentives, such as communism, or a tribe that gave out worms, failed and ended up dissolved for one of many reasons.
Some of those reasons are:
- Lack of morale in soldiers. When your soldiers are not sure what they’re fighting for, many of them end up being far less effective in combat.
- Lack of morale in the populace as a whole. When workers and families don’t function, you don’t produce anything and therefore can even give them less incentives, and therefore their efficiency drops even more.
- Corrupt government. When the incentives are low, often the profits reach the upper social strata and the government, making it so that either the people revolt, or the government is ineffective, and in either case you have a failing country.
Those are just the basic reasons, and often, nations have risen and fallen based on the strength and conviction of their vassals in the incentives they shall receive. In the end, all humans strive for life and pleasure, and pleasure most of all. If one sacrifices themselves for a nation or country, it is because they want to, and it will give them pleasure to have died in the service of their country/nation. That’s an example, but it shows how humans strive for incentives, even if those incentives are not strictly the common goals of a human.
Stay safe,
Elliot
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