I think author jumps from high horse of only fortunate should survive to high horse of saving 8 billion people with magic wand.
You can't save the heroin addict with incentives.
You can't feed & cure all people in Africa with incentives because then in 20 years, the problem will tripple in dimensions.
Incentives in people which enables those people to "repay the debt" to create wealth for incentives to other people works.
Incentives for handicapped enables them to live better life, and decrase burden on their relatives (which enables them to create more).
Incentives in science sectors which don't have immediate "business vector" works.
Incentives are good, if they are supplemental in degree that's necessary ... and addressed precisely.
Otherwise they are waste of resources created through higher taxes (penalty for everyone).
You can't save the heroin addict with incentives. You can't feed & cure all people in Africa with incentives because then in 20 years, the problem will tripple in dimensions.
Incentives in people which enables those people to "repay the debt" to create wealth for incentives to other people works.
Incentives for handicapped enables them to live better life, and decrase burden on their relatives (which enables them to create more).
Incentives in science sectors which don't have immediate "business vector" works.
Incentives are good, if they are supplemental in degree that's necessary ... and addressed precisely. Otherwise they are waste of resources created through higher taxes (penalty for everyone).