Profit with a cost

November 07, 2002 at 12:00 AM

Category: Misc

A bullentin board post on xvi by K'an:

"I read about this psych experiment once... they wanted to test the effects of profit-incentive on people, So they tracked down a few NYC graff crews and offered them quite a bit of cash for specific murals on specific walls for a specific amount. After several murals, they informed all of the crews that they ran out of funding and couldn't continue paying them. They ALL stopped graffing permanently...

"moral of the story: Anything you're passionate about becomes distasteful when the profit motive is introduced."

His recommened reading: Hakim Bey's Immediatism

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