Timed Incentives of Money

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A powerful tool I learned for reasoning is running along with an idea, and observing how it affects other ideas. It is often said that assuming something that is false allows you to proof anything, but what if you are not interested in proofing? Instead, what if you are more interested in discovering ideas and finding new connections, which you can later start from?

So let’s do that with the following statement: “The current demographic lowers student-applications in highschool, which will lead to teachers being fired” Remember what I said earlier, you can assume false if you don’t agree, want more nuance, or have more excuses to not reason further; As stated that is irrelevant, I continue.

The decision to fire teachers needs to be supported by this decline. It implicitly requires a fixed number of students per teacher, otherwise it wouldn’t result in a decline (for the purists, the statements said “will lead” meant directly, so you can hold the causation/correlation lecture for yourself).

This vision also misses an opportunity to address related issues. Again the statement may be false, but can still reveal ideas, ideas which circle around the person whom spoken them. The opportunity is to differ between growth and decline. With growth, it made sense to hire more teachers to teach the same in more classes. But when it had its growth and change in students because of it, it would be naive to just do the reverse. Classes come and go, but the teachers stay longer. So, what about shrinking the classes instead, or shrinking the amount of classes a single teacher takes on?

At this point the timed incentive of money kicks in. The choice is being falsely related to relieving teachers of tasks and hiring more teachers if there was no decline. Extra-tasks like integrating new teammembers and further organization shifts are assumed, which you actually can prevent with the alternative approach. This again is the result of not reasoning further where it seems false.

As a final thought; Another property of money, or the lack of reserves, is not being able to pass a transition period to get you to a more desired state or to prevent a state that is otherwise bound to happen. The sources of the money also act as the leverage to act out the conditions by which it is granted. Leverage specifically, as it is not permanent, just a force that is present and affects the short-term.