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  1. Easily predictable unintended consequences, part one million:

    At "Hello Work", Japan's unemployment offices, most staff now have individual numerical targets for how many applicants go on to a work interview.

    And so, in Kuroda, Tokyo, the employees started registering fake job applicants, applying for jobs, then actually going to the interviews, in order to meet their targets.

    Remember: you get what you measure, not what you want.

    asahi.com/articles/ASTDT2Q0HTD