Public rankings amplify competitive drive by lending activities stakes
Evidence
Rankings invest competitive activities with import and excitement. For example, if football and soccer teams had no rankings, it would rob them of spectators and fans. Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s richest people fuels the competitive money drive. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1473
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1473
- XREF: connects to: Reputation-building is a deliberate investment of foregone gains; Published management accounts create a competitive market for the prison contract — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 183; People prioritize beating an out-group over maximizing their own group’s profit
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Reputation-building is a deliberate investment of foregone gains; Published management accounts create a competitive market for the prison contract — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 183; People prioritize beating an out-group over maximizing their own group’s profit