The wierd thing is, you could translate this insight into a ethically questionable business idea:
A website lists the wrong doers to humiliate them. Each crime gets its own list. Pay 5$ for "the jerk who cuts you off in traffic on the crowded freeway" or 1000$ for "the geek who concocts the next fifteen-minutes-of-fame computer virus" or 100,000$ for "the child molestor".
I hope this would not work out, but i fear it would.
How about catching corrupt officials in the act for 500 dollars?
Though I am sure that there is an unintended consequence somewhere in the idea. Sometime all we can do is watch the system in action, and try to fix it...if it let us.
For example, the US government is in a slow motion train accident that's taking a long time to happen. It's very hard to stop the train in time and fix the stuff that's broken.
A website lists the wrong doers to humiliate them. Each crime gets its own list. Pay 5$ for "the jerk who cuts you off in traffic on the crowded freeway" or 1000$ for "the geek who concocts the next fifteen-minutes-of-fame computer virus" or 100,000$ for "the child molestor".
I hope this would not work out, but i fear it would.