Incentives Glossary

Browse 2 incentives terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

2 Incentives Terms

Race to the Bottom: A downward competition where choices get worse over time because everyone optimizes for the same narrow short-term measure. In engineering slang, the phrase...
Shopping Cart Problem: A reference to a social-behavior test about whether people do the right thing without enforcement, applied metaphorically to teamwork and maintenance habits....