Granting lifetime tenure removes the financial incentive to conceal management details

Evidence

It is for clearing away as much as possible every motive of pecuniary interest that could prompt him to throw any kind of cloak or reserve upon any of his expedients for increasing his profits, that I would insure them to him for life. — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 179

Categorization

• XREF: Key causal link for the reader’s panopticon thesis: Bentham engineers disclosure through structural incentives, not through watching the watcher — complementing the internalized self-policing of the inmates. — connects to: Public commitment makes future fulfillment costly to renege on by invoking present social constraints; Commitment includes removing options, delegating fulfilment, and self-handicapping — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 300; Commitments are often manufactured by removing one’s own control over action — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 714 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Commitments are often manufactured by removing one’s own control over action #expands (0.78) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 714
• Commitment includes removing options, delegating fulfilment, and self-handicapping #expands (0.75) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 300
• Public commitment makes future fulfillment costly to renege on by invoking present social constraints #complicates (0.72)
• Bureaucratic practices hinder effective management of information secrecy. #contradicts (0.72)