# Retroactive Pie Good

Incentivising individuals and committees to create good for the DAO long-term is an hard problem which is best handled interactively.

The common approach until now to rewards advisors, fulltime devs and commitee members has been using tokens proactively.

In this memo, we suggest that instead of funding ahead of time, Pie good gets funded after a project / committee / individual has been showing to have an impact.

## Why is Retroactive good
1. It’s easier to agree on what was useful than what will be useful. -Vitalik Buterin
2. Often, the good of an initiative is not initially recognised as such until a lot of people use it, ex: the Oven
3. Making an impact ofter requires bold experimentation and 90% of the experiment fail.

## Why proactive is bad
1. People mistakly perceive incentives as compensation for their time instead of their impact
2. Once rules are enstablished, people will game them or do the bare minimum
3. Social desirability biases: If you ask people wha't deserve being incentivised you get a lot of conformist opinions.

## How

## Personal note
Giving tokens before is essentially a bet and should be avoided-
Turns out people who really help, do that even before being compensated for it.
This approach is oriented to entreprenaurial idea and that's okay.
As someone interested in helping PieDAO, you don’t have to ask for permission to do something, you can take agency and do it.
You can implement decision-making via advice process instead of chain of command. Basically if someone wants to implement something, they have to ask stakeholders and experts for advice. this allows to keep people in the loop, and also gives a good point of intervention before things get too far. it's important to notice that **asking for advice does not equal asking for permission**, you can still carry on with your idea. what's important here is you can't say "im just a cog, i was told to do this", because it's your idea, you get the buy-in from yourself first, you are ready to protect it when it's questioned. this breeds a culture of quality discourse and good arguments.