The Founding Contradiction
Hidden Brain
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Jefferson's Incentives Versus Punishment
Thereis no record of jefferson ever beating anybody but overseers. At monticello and his other plantations did use the whip. But he developed the idea that using incentives would a better way to get people to do things than to whip them. So in the seventeen nineties, when he sets up a nail factory run by boys, typically and older tean agers, he institutes a regime of incentives....
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