Like an actual general intelligence test or a cognitive ability test? Neither should be used in a performance context though so that’s wild. Cognitive ability testing should only be used for selection not for performance the fuck.

Uhh buddy I said I didn’t know because I was being humble and not trying to act like I have 100% answers to everything when I’m just commenting to a post on my phone. We can easily look towards work around self determination theory if you want motivation, but I think you more meant organizational structures and incentive structures or maybe trying to identify and handle potential bad actors through dark tetrad personality assessment. I actually do research in these areas and the evidence isn’t some nebulous idea, I just don’t have the time to collect and present to you the work on a topic like this. Go read some science, there is a lot of good stuff out there if you want to learn.

Well the example I gave was literally during the time of feudalism so in that society you didn’t. I’m a social sciencentist but I don’t have all the answers as, like you pointed out, bad actors are typically a minority which hijackes the society they are in. I don’t think we need to know everything to make a better world, we should start with what we can. If you or I ever find a definitive answer I hope we share that with everyone we can.

Yeah it would, it just wouldn’t look the same. Looking to pre-capitalist societies you find people still making and selling things. Are they doing it for money? Yes and no. An Ale house for example was literally just Ale being sold out of a person’s house and that person would change on a rotation as it was made and sold by different people. This was for like a community service than a profit based business venture.

I think you’d be surprised. Lot of people like doing things like that and are more put off by the conditions we ask them to work in.