A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

Fortunate people seldom mend their ways, for when good luck crowns their misdeeds with success they think it is because they are right.
 
[Les gens heureux ne se corrigent guère; ils croient toujours avoir raison quand la fortune soutient leur mauvaise conduite.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶227 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)]

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The German medical community is escalating pressure on the ruling coalition government, urging a significant expansion of its proposed "active retirement" schem... https://news.osna.fm/?p=19932 | #news #broadened #doctor #group #incentive

Ireland Boosts VFX Tax Credit to 40%, Extends Digital Games Incentive in Budget 2026
#Variety #Global #News #Incentive #ScreenIreland #Shogun #VFX

https://variety.com/2025/global/news/ireland-vfx-tax-credit-digital-games-incentive-budget-2026-1236543269/

Having registrants not show up is a big problem for free events. An incentive now used by many professional services could help.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2025/01/show-up

#events #attendance #attrition #NoShows #incentive #eventprofs

What Kind of Economists Do We Want? From a One-Track to a Two-Track Mind https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:iuiwop:1530&r=&r=eur
"In Sweden, and presumably also in most other small European countries, the approach to PhD training in #economics is biased. The system strongly encourages new generations of researchers to focus wholeheartedly on attempting to publish in the #top5 economics journals – despite the fact that the probability of being accepted in those journals is slim. PhD training has become exclusively geared towards producing future academic economists. The fact that highly skilled economists are needed outside the university walls as well is largely disregarded.
We recommend a #diversification of the #incentive structure. Economics is a #socialScience and must have something to say about the world we live in, but this is becoming increasingly rare. Instead of being problem-driven, our subject has fallen prey to the tyranny of #prestige, where methods tend to be more important than problems. A nuanced, diversified and balanced view of what constitutes a first-rate economist is called for. The educational system must support this rather than forcing students and more advanced researchers to suboptimize by concentrating on research they believe is favored by the editors of the leading journals."
#publishOrPerish

#Competition in the classroom: When #incentive systems change personality. Publication @jeeanews.bsky.social @fabiankosse.bsky.social‬ @uni-wuerzburg.de‬ et al.
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/09/03/competition-in-the-classroom-when-incentive-systems-change-character

If you took the amount of money that the #Trump family has enriched themselves with since his term began and distributed *that* amount...

...then every #American eligible for an #incentive #spending check, would get roughly $30,000,000. 🤔

I'm sure $1350 is fair.

#uspol

Having registrants not show up is a big problem for free events. An incentive now used by many professional services could help.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2025/01/show-up

#events #attendance #attrition #NoShows #incentive #eventprofs

geführte Fackelwanderungen für Firmenveranstaltungen und als Rahmenprogramm für Tagungen. Wir sind gerne mit Ihnen und Ihren Kunden unterwegs rund um den Ammersee, Starnberger See und in den bayerischen Alpen. Gerne auch in weiteren Gebieten Europas.

#firmen #incentive #fackelwanderung #bayerischeseen #bergwanderung #fuenfseen #fuenfseenmagazin #fünfseenland #meinstarnbergammersee

https://www.fuenfseen.de/project/fackelwanderungen/

Does Kansas want Royals more than Chiefs in push to lure teams?

KSHB 41 reporter Charlie Keegan covers politics on both sides of the state line. If you have a story idea to…
#NFL #KansasCityChiefs #KansasCity #Kansas #Chiefs #andyyeast #aspiria #CarterSmith #charliekeegan #dinahsykes #Football #incentive #joegloeckner #KansasCityNews
https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/192110/

Does Kansas want Royals more than Chiefs in push to lure teams? https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/161977/ #AndyYeast #Aspiria #Baseball #CarterSmith #CharlieKeegan #chiefs #DinahSykes #incentive #JoeGloeckner #Kansas #KansasCity #KansasCityNews #KansasCityRoyals #KansasCity #KansasCityRoyals #MLB #royals

#AI + the question of #ownership: "#TeHiku shows that when AI tools are built by organizations with entirely different #incentive structures in place, they can produce wildly different results. As long as AI is designed for the purposes of the #competitive #accumulation of capital, firms will continue to find ways to exploit labor, degrade the environment, take short cuts in data extraction, and compromise on safety, because if they don’t, one of their competitors will."

https://jacobin.com/2025/07/altman-openai-artificial-intelligence-labor-environment-deepseek

@franky @ulrichkelber

Ja, und der erste Schritt ist sich dem #Bullshit zu verweigern, weil sonst besteht keine #Incentive was zu ändern!

Ich bin seit 11+ Jahren #Windows-frei und bereue nur nicht bereits vor 20 Jahren dem Unstieg gemacht zu haben!

Having registrants not show up is a big problem for free events. An incentive now used by many professional services could help.

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#events #attendance #attrition #NoShows #incentive #eventprofs

@bwaaaaak Eben!

#Sportpferde sind teuer - und zwar locker im Bereich von nem passenden Eigenheim aufm Land wenns in internationale Profi-Turniere geht...

• Es gibt zugleich weder #Incentive noch #Strafe dafür entsprechende Tiere beim "Ausscheiden aus der Profi-Karriere" langfristig zu versorgen.

Und weil nen #Sportpferd mit quasi allem gedoped wird was nicht explizit verboten ist, darf es nichtmals zum Verzehr geschlachtet werden (Was ja der Skandal damals bei LIDL war!)...

• So abscheulich es klingt: Ein Sportpferd ist nur dann nützlich wenn es zur Zucht taugt und mit eigenen Erfolgen glänzen kann...

Farhi plans more downtown office-to-housing conversions using city incentive
As London continues to face an affordable housing crisis, a prominent property owner is offering up more downtown office space to add to the city's housing supply, the City announced Tuesday.
#housing #city #incentive #property #London #downtown
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/farhi-plans-more-downtown-office-to-housing-conversions-using-city-incentive-1.7551034?cmp=rss

St. Thomas area doctor incentive program funds 7 physicians so far this year
A financial incentive program offered by the City of St. Thomas and Elgin County to attract and retain family doctors has doled out funds this year to seven physicians.
#medical #financial #doctor #incentive #StThomas #ElginCounty
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/st-thomas-area-doctor-incentive-program-funds-7-physicians-so-far-this-year-1.7545588?cmp=rss

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So, #Trump has announced this via a toot:

"Our great Mortgage Agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, provide a vital service to our Nation by helping hardworking Americans reach the American Dream — Home Ownership. I am working on TAKING THESE AMAZING COMPANIES PUBLIC, but I want to be clear, the U.S. Government will keep its implicit GUARANTEES, and I will stay strong in my position on overseeing them as President."

Translation:

1. Fannie and Freddie will become ordinary commercial corporations, with owners, profit & loss statements, stockholders and analysts' ROI expectations, and all the crap that follows from that.

2. They will be expected to generate significant profits for their new, private owners.

3. There will be zero risk to the private owners, because the government will still backstop the mortgages that Fannie & Freddie underwrite.

Analysis: this is creating exactly the same incentive structure that resulted in the subprime mortgage meltdown of 2007-2008: they make money off every mortgage written, regardless of how risky it is, and they don't have to carry the risk themselves, so there's no reason to ensure the credit-worthiness of the applicants.

Prediction: in 5 years, or 10 years, an even bigger mortgage bubble will pop, leaving utter devastation. And the government will bail the bankers and private equity out, with the public's tax dollars.

#USPol #SubPrime #mortgage #meltdown #bubble #risk #incentive #profit

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There’s an American-born pope and Trump floats a birth rate incentive: The news quiz 

Fast-food chains are trying something new, pro-Palestinian protests resume at Columbia, and Mr. #Americanborn #pope #Trump #floats #birth #rate #incentive #news #quiz

https://10bmnews.com/2025/05/theres-an-american-born-pope-and-trump-floats-a-birth-rate-incentive-the-news-quiz/