Bitcoin Tech Talk 514

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Bitcoin Tech Talk 514 Aug 17, 2026 8 2 Share Interesting Stuff Incentives are for Losers - Adam Mastroianni makes the provocative case that people who need incentives to behave well are morally weak. The thrust of the article is that real integrity means doing the right thing regardless of the reward structure. Unfortunately, most people never develop actual convictions, just what he calls “moralistic therapeutic deism” they absorbed by osmosis. He's onto something that is extremely fiat, which is that incentive-talk is really an excuse to sin by blaming the economic system. Fiat money tra

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