I'll Pay You Ten Dollars if You Vote Ten

"Think about raising children. I don't think many parents would say that a monetary system of financial incentives and fines is the best way to parent," he says. "Almost everything governments are set up to do is about punishing the bad, and almost nothing is about rewarding the good." The notion of using a positive reinforcement or reward to prevent someone from doing the bad thing is 'the hardest part of that matrix'