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Comment author: Lumifer 12 November 2014 07:56:56PM 2 points [-]

Part of Alan Greenspan's apology was that his biggest mistake was to believe that's true.

You are mistaken. It is true that organization's incentives are always transmitted to the individuals within it. What is not true is that those are the only incentives which these individuals have.