Green vMeme is the communitarian, egalitarian, consensus-seeking value system. Emerged strongly post-1960s. It sits in the Culture dimension (CUL) of the Human Behavior Taxonomy™ as element HBT-CUL-0002, within the Culture family. The core principle: the communitarian, egalitarian, consensus-seeking value system. Emerged strongly post-1960s. In incentive terms, it matters because it changes the payoff people perceive before they choose — which means it can be designed for, or exploited.
Scientific Definition
The communitarian, egalitarian, consensus-seeking value system. Emerged strongly post-1960s.
Plain-English Definition
The communitarian, egalitarian, consensus-seeking value system. Emerged strongly post-1960s.
Feynman Explanation
Green built the inclusion policy. Green also built the meeting that never ends.
Core Principle
The communitarian, egalitarian, consensus-seeking value system. Emerged strongly post-1960s.
Mechanisms
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The communitarian, egalitarian, consensus-seeking value system. Emerged strongly post-1960s.
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Strong on belonging and ethics; weak on decisiveness without supporting structures.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Green built the inclusion policy. Green also built the meeting that never ends.
Examples
- Beck & Cowan; visible in DEI, ESG, flat-org movements.
- Strong on belonging and ethics; weak on decisiveness without supporting structures.
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Original analysis from The Incentives Lab — how this element behaves inside real payoff structures.
Why this element matters to incentive design
The mistake with this element is treating it as irrationality. It is almost always a rational response to a payoff nobody wrote down. The mechanism underneath it is straightforward: the communitarian, egalitarian, consensus-seeking value system. Emerged strongly post-1960s. You can recognize it in the field by its signature: green built the inclusion policy. Green also built the meeting that never ends. Every element in the Culture dimension changes the perceived payoff of an action before the action happens, which is exactly where incentive design has leverage.
How it gets exploited
Left undesigned, strong on belonging and ethics; weak on decisiveness without supporting structures. It is amplified whenever strong on belonging and ethics; weak on decisiveness without supporting structures. Inside organizations that shows up as strong on belonging and ethics; weak on decisiveness without supporting structures. The pattern is the same one Goodhart's Law describes: the measurable proxy attracts the effort, and the purpose behind it quietly loses funding.
How the Lab designs around it
The redesign move is to pair Green's values with Orange's rigor or Yellow's systems thinking to avoid analysis paralysis. Treat it as infrastructure. Once you can see it in your own system, most of the argument about culture resolves itself.
Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Pair Green's values with Orange's rigor or Yellow's systems thinking to avoid analysis paralysis.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Pair Green's values with Orange's rigor or Yellow's systems thinking to avoid analysis paralysis.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
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Order, discipline, hierarchy, principle, and rule-based value system. The 'right way' to do things.
The achievement-driven, rational, strategic, market-oriented value system. Most of Western corporate life.
Egocentric, power-driven, immediate-gratification value system. The will to dominate.
A value system — a structured way of making meaning that emerges at a particular life-condition stage.
The integrative, systemic, flexible value system — the first of second-tier.
We prefer stories over raw facts, even when the story is misleading.
We construct a coherent life story; that story shapes future decisions.
Cultures vary in how strictly norms are enforced and deviance punished.
Each value system (Beige through Green) believes itself to be the only valid one and dismisses the others.
The relative weight a culture gives to individual goals vs. group cohesion.
The combination of historical, social, and existential pressures that activates the next vMeme.
How much hierarchical inequality a culture accepts as normal.
Where Green vMeme is cited in the corpus
Essays, field guides, and diagnostics from The Incentives Lab that apply this element.
- EssayCulture Is the Residue of Incentives
Declared culture versus revealed culture.
- DiagnosticCultural Performance Audit™
The instrument that reads cultural behavior.
- EssayAI Agents Inherit Your Incentives
How this element propagates into automated systems.
- ReferenceThe Periodic Table of Human Behavior
The full 1,267-element map this page belongs to.
- ReferenceThe incentive glossary
Definitions for every mental model, bias, and fallacy in the corpus.
Questions about Green vMeme
- What is Green vMeme?
- Green vMeme is the communitarian, egalitarian, consensus-seeking value system. Emerged strongly post-1960s. It sits in the Culture dimension (CUL) of the Human Behavior Taxonomy™ as element HBT-CUL-0002, within the Culture family. The core principle: the communitarian, egalitarian, consensus-seeking value system. Emerged strongly post-1960s. In incentive terms, it matters because it changes the payoff people perceive before they choose — which means it can be designed for, or exploited.
- What is an example of Green vMeme?
- Strong on belonging and ethics; weak on decisiveness without supporting structures. The Incentives Lab catalogs everyday, organizational, and historical instances of this element on its Human Behavior Taxonomy™ page (HBT-CUL-0002).
- How is Green vMeme exploited?
- Strong on belonging and ethics; weak on decisiveness without supporting structures.
- How do you design around Green vMeme?
- Pair Green's values with Orange's rigor or Yellow's systems thinking to avoid analysis paralysis.
- Which behavioral dimension does Green vMeme belong to?
- Green vMeme is classified in the Culture dimension (CUL) of the Human Behavior Taxonomy™, family "Culture", class "Mental Model". Its permanent identifier is HBT-CUL-0002 and its evidence grade is B.