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I think a related issue is the way legible measurements work with imposed systems to create perverse incentives. This could look like, say, a government incentive program for planting trees, which doesn't stipulate that the trees need to be planted somewhere suitable, or that they have to survive. I can plant saplings and then dig them up the next season to out somewhere else as well as the next person, but I'm not doing anything particularly helpful if I do. If this example seems unrealistically simplistic, I can remember being taught in school about the gopher tail bounty in the North American prairies in the early 20th century.

Any legible rule can be gamed.

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