Definitely don’t go buy a bunch of cheap hacksaws and hand them out to unhoused people with a promise of cash for each camera. And certainly don’t tell them that the materials making up the camera are probably worth something and they can keep them after giving you proof of destruction.
Why would they? It takes a long time to do that and there are a lot of flock cameras already there. Unless you’re talking about hidden agents for the establishment.
A perverse incentive occurs when it’s easier to game the system than to use it as intended. Most people don’t put extra effort into gaming the system. And you could always just set the reward at less than the value of the raw materials, so that they’d only profit if they were taking someone else’s cameras.
Definitely don’t go buy a bunch of cheap hacksaws and hand them out to unhoused people with a promise of cash for each camera. And certainly don’t tell them that the materials making up the camera are probably worth something and they can keep them after giving you proof of destruction.
This is great way to get people to build their own flock cameras they can “destroy” to get cash from you.
Why would they? It takes a long time to do that and there are a lot of flock cameras already there. Unless you’re talking about hidden agents for the establishment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
A perverse incentive occurs when it’s easier to game the system than to use it as intended. Most people don’t put extra effort into gaming the system. And you could always just set the reward at less than the value of the raw materials, so that they’d only profit if they were taking someone else’s cameras.
Not that you should do any of that, of course.
Yes please, use people in need to do the dirty job for you.