What Is Wrong Essay

“If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying.” This is a quote from Eddie Guerrero, a former WWE wrestler who passed on at the peak of his wrestling career due to heart failure. This quote is very true as it is easy to do the right thing, but in order to do the wrong thing, people have to try and get away with cheating. People of our economy try to cheat, steal, and try to get away with things that in the name of the law aren’t permitted. Sometimes what some people may not consider as cheating may be cheating in someone else’s eyes. I personally feel like moral incentives are more powerful than economic incentives. Mankind is inherently corrupt just based off of the reading of chapter one in Freakanomics. People cheat on the littlest things just to save a dollar or two. Feldmans’ Bagel Business was one of the best ways to see how people cheat on the littlest thing for

Moral incentives are personal gain off of what their view of right and wrong is. Others may feel as if a person is doing the wrong thing, but the person doing that act may think that it is ok to do. An economic incentive is something that drives the economy to do something good. The economy benefits from this incentive. People also try harder to cheat for economic gain. A moral incentive can be the smallest little drive that will make a person go and do something just to have personal satisfaction. “And when the U.S. government asserts that terrorists raise money by selling black-market cigarettes, that acts as a rather jarring moral incentives” (Levitt & Dubner). Some people may feel that doing the right thing will stop this versus gaining money to stop smoking. Personally I feel like a moral incentive gives me more satisfaction than an economic incentive. This world isn’t all about money. Moral incentives are more powerful because if a wrong decision is made then it can have more effect than any other