The standard critique of incentives — that they 'distort rational judgment' — assumes rationality was ever the operating system. Damasio's somatic marker research and Kahneman's System 1 framing both show that decision-making originates in emotional circuitry before conscious reasoning engages. Incentives don't corrupt reason; they target the fast, affective layer where the decision is actually being made.
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