Unquantifiable protective work is disincentivized by career reward systems

Evidence

As the 9/11 commissioners acknowledged, “Counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence work, often involving lengthy intelligence investigations that might never have positive or quantifiable results, was not career-enhancing” (p. 74, emphasis added). — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1980

Categorization

• QUESTION: This suggests a general principle about institutionally punished prevention: what structurally analogous invisible-labor disincentives undergird other silent failures, from civilian harm prevention to scandal avoidance?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1980
• XREF: connects to: The incentives sustaining managerial roles vastly exceed those compensating dangerous labor