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Action, Correlated Reward

Why would a recycling truck on the back streets of Sangenjaya carry around a huge box of recycled toilet paper?

The recycling company rewards newspaper recyclers with free toilet paper, which is dropped off for every pickup of bundled paper made. An elegant mapping between the action - recycling paper the consequences of that action recycled paper used to make toilet paper+, and a reward for that action - free toilet paper.

Equivalents? Digital equivalents?

Writing from Sangenjaya, back of | April 22, 2007 | Permalink