Reminds me of an observation from a podcast done by a successful creative (sorry, can't remember who, I think Rick Rubin was interviewing the person):<p>Our society thinks it is normal to have a creative work evaluated by accounting, but never the reverse.<p>It would be fun to reverse that. "Ok, Jones, you made a profit of 30M, but we don't really see that you released that much creativity. We're going to have to cancel your project."
I think there are two different things here.<p>1. Are the things that are being measured the right things?<p>ie for teachers, you might look a pupils future job prospects, suicide rates, incarnation rates, or some measure of happiness, rather than the immediate test scores.<p>The wrong targets can cause damaging distortions.<p>2. Often the aim is to reduce poor performance by being prescriptive - but you have to be careful not to do that by reducing variation at both sides ( ie which includes constraining high performers ).
Surprising that the author doesn't mention Arlie Russell Hochschild's idea of "emotional labor," which Hochschild first wrote about over 40(!) years ago.
everybody will be accounted AND scripted for.<p>freewill will first turn into a political debate, then an economic issue. finally it'll be realized as too expensive for "average joes" and hence we will have an answer to whether the universe is deterministic. A resounding YES. equivalently, we will know if we have free will, a resounding NO for that would not be as efficient.