What do you know, if you just give poor people money their lives get better.
Via Dave Higgins.
Originally shared by Stephen Harris (Phi)
I once read a study where it was discovered cash incentive wasn’t a good motivator. People’s motivation was barely affected by a higher salary.
What the study concluded is, “Pay them enough to take the money problem off the table. Then listen to them, to their ideas and feedback about the business.”
If everyone is no longer wrapped up with daily necessities, they can think more clearly and act as they would want to.
Of course, some are bound up with vices, but generally those vices are due to their situation to begin with.
I thought that once your basic needs are met, Maslow’s Hierarchy, money becomes less of a motivator and/or a means to improve ones life. However, if your basic needs are not met, money can go a long way to secure them therefore improve your life.