Incentives and the Presidency
March 10, 2004 09:31 AM
In discussing the possibility of a "President with a truly secret agenda" being elected, Ichikawa suggests that presidents, like corporate executives, need to have a real connection with the Nation's best interest.
Incentives and the Presidency:Here’s my idea. We’ll hook up the President’s body to a sophisticated machine that takes as input economic performance data, crime rates, poverty rates, war casualties and injuries, corporate scandals, light-rail crashes, and Nielson ratings for reality TV shows. Whenever something bad happens to the nation, the machine would respond by causing physical pain to the President’s body. A hundred soldiers die in Iraq? The machine breaks George Bush’s left pinky.
