You can’t “incentivize” anyone.

MBA’s use the word “incentivize” all the time. However, there is no such word in the English language. If there were, it would literally mean “to turn into an incentive”. So unless you are planning grind a person up and use the bits as a reward, do not use it.  To use the active voice of this transitive verb in proper English, one can “provide incentives” or more succinctly, “incite someone to do something”. The verb to incite is not necessarily coupled to the predicate “to riot”.

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