a friend of mine used to pay his young children $1 each time they wrote a thank‒you note. this policy may or may not work in the long run. it might turn out that, by writing enough thank‒you notes, the children will eventually learn the real point of them and continue to express gratitude for gifts, even when they are no longer paid to do so. it’s also possible that they will absorb the wrong lesson, and regard thank‒you notes as piecework, a burden to be performed for pay. in this case, the habit won’t take, and they will stop writing such notes once they are no longer paid. worse, the bribes may corrupt their moral education and make it harder for them to learn the virtue of gratitude. even if it increases production in the short run, the bribe for thank‒you notes will have failed, by inculcating the wrong way of valuing the good in question.
* inculcate: 주입하다
위에서 their가children인가요? 아님bribes인가요?