This is something I think people forget too often. When you build and tune a system to incentivise anti-social behaviour, don't be surprised when you get anti-social people doing anti-social things. We currently legally demand that management always maximise shareholder value, so that's what they do, and that's the sort of person who makes it to higher levels of management. If we changed that goal, the outcome would change too. Unfortunately the lawmakers who would have to make those changes are too invested in the current system for it to happen easily.
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