One does not know why really.
Debhashish Basu of Moneylife says by nature people are lazy, selfish & vain. We should be aware of these traits while making policy.
George Orwell famously said: “All writers are vain, selfish and lazy”. He could have said this for almost the entire human race. There are many altruistic people, and most of us sometimes do not fit this characterisation, but these are undoubtedly our default traits. Anybody who tries to persuade the public to behave in a certain manner must accept them or risk failure; or at the very least, be prepared for a long hard slog. The tech industry has understood this very well and created billion-dollar businesses that millions of people use daily for a cab ride (Uber), purchases (Amazon), information (Google) or other social purposes (Facebook, Twitter). Can intelligent policymakers and well-meaning politicians, who try to persuade millions to either clean up garbage, follow traffic rules, stop taking or giving bribes, learn from them? Lets first look at these characteristics.
As we tend to copy whatever west does in economic policies, there is an incentive to copy. British are already doing it:
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