Wellness programs and similar initiatives are so repellent to me that I'm pretty sympathetic to everyone fooling them.
They don't even work:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/workplace...
Smartphone cradle used to cheat “10k steps/day” health insurance discounts
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#62I bike 15+ miles a day but my work's discount program doesn't "support" biking. If I was into vigilante justice, I'd consider a solution like this too. But as it is, I'm quite content biking for my own sake rather than some pittance of a benefit.
are you more likely to sustain an injury than someone who is mostly idle?
Yes, but the reduced risk of heart disease/stroke/obesity more than makes up for it. Also better lung function and less car fumes breathed in since your car cabin isn't trapping them.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
are you more likely to sustain an injury than someone who is mostly idle?
Do you have statistics to indicate biking is inherently more dangerous than other activities or are you just repeating a certain assumption you have?
Lots of runners in my family. They often get injuries (especially knew) from running. Biking is a lot kinder to your joints.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
What did the Delhi residents themselves think about cobras? Were the natives OK with cobras running around and it was just the British that wanted to reduce the population? I'm curious because if everybody disliked wild cobras loose in the city I'd have expected the breeders to kill their stock when the bounty ended, not free it.
Why would you expect that in a world where people dump hazardous waste into rivers to save money?
Happens in America, too.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
But letting the snakes go is even easier. Use the example of people littering instead of using a trash can, or not flushing public toilets, if you need a demonstration of how people can't be bothered with even simple tasks.
Most people aren't worried their litter will literally come back to bite them. Were the snake breeders really unconcerned that dumping a bunch of snakes out the back window wouldn't have consequences?
They were breeding poisonous snakes in a land where those snakes already live in the wild, I doubt they were worried about having a few more of those snakes out there.
These breeders were trying to scam a government program so they didn't exactly have the highest scruples, expecting them to do anything to aid society is probably too much to expect.
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#66Metrics exist to be cheated. For better or for worse.
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#67I've always found that anytime time a financial outcome is tied to some sort of behavior incentive, weird behaviors come out. This especially comes out in sales, where whether you like it or not, individuals will typically optimize for the best financial outcome, which is not always explicitly connected to what's best for the company.
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
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#68Wellness programs and similar initiatives are so repellent to me that I'm pretty sympathetic to everyone fooling them.
Turn it around- perhaps the low risk individuals find subsidizing the high risk individuals equally repellent. Wellness programs allow those individuals to recover some of their premiums.
Low-risk individuals subsidizing high-risk individuals? We just call that "insurance."
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect The term cobra effect originated in an anecdote set at the time of British rule of colonial India. The British government was concerned about the number of venomous cobra snakes in Delhi.[3] The government therefore offered bounty for every dead cobra. Initially this was a successful strategy as large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterpr…
What did the Delhi residents themselves think about cobras? Were the natives OK with cobras running around and it was just the British that wanted to reduce the population? I'm curious because if everybody disliked wild cobras loose in the city I'd have expected the breeders to kill their stock when the bounty ended, not free it.
Why? Killing them requires, well, doing something. You have to actually kill them, which takes effort, and then you have to dispose of the carcasses, which takes effort. On the other hand, simply turning them loose is no effort at all.
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#70The obvious defect in this device is that it doesn't charge your phone while it walks it for you.