Nobody believes the tie improves work. Everybody wears one, because not wearing one sends a signal about willingness to comply that wearing one does not.
Master
The hidden part#0410
The code persists because dropping it unilaterally sends a signal about compliance that wearing it does not. Nobody needs to value the tie; they only need to fear what not wearing it says.
The same charge attracts more resistance when it is called a tax than when it is called a fee or a levy. The label carries a moral category the number does not.
Adept
The hidden part#0504
The label assigns a moral category. Exchange invites payment; extraction invites resistance, at the same price.
A bonus arrives and is spent. Equity sits and waits, and while it waits the holder becomes someone with something to lose.
Adept
The hidden part#0387
A bonus is a carrot. Equity is an endowment that creates a loss to defend. The second changes the holder more deeply, and not always in the direction intended.
The expensive option is not there to be bought. It is there to change what the middle option looks like, and it does that job without ever being chosen.
Adept
The hidden part#0138
The premium tier nobody buys is not a failure. It is the instrument that decides what the tier below it appears to cost.
The behaviour ran on a cue that belonged to a place. In the new place the cue is absent, and the habit does not transfer because it was never stored as a decision.
Adept
The hidden part#0312
A habit is not stored in the person. It is stored in the loop between the person and a place. Remove the place and the loop opens.