Brain Pickings has an animate video to highlight Dan Ariely’s new book, The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty. Ariely writes in the book what causes our moral compass to go awry:
“We all have a tendency to think of people as good or bad. And, we say, as long as we kick the bad people, everything would be fine. But the reality is that we all have the capacity to be quite bad, under the right circumstances, and I think in banking we’ve created the right circumstances for everybody to misbehave. And, because of that, it’s not such a matter of kicking some people and getting new people in — it’s about changing the incentive structure. Because, unless we change that, we’re not going to get forward.”
