Here&#x27;s our (Beeminder&#x27;s) answer to that astute objection: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeminder.com&#x2F;perverse&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeminder.com&#x2F;perverse&#x2F;</a><p>In short, our interests and our customers&#x27; interests turn out to be highly aligned, even though it seems prima facie perverse.<p>Another way of arguing the point: a manufacturer of physical goods has the perverse incentive to make pieces of crap that last just long enough to make it out of the store. Ok, maybe that&#x27;s commonplace enough that I&#x27;m totally not helping my case with that analogy! :)<p>Ok, better argument! Beeminder has been around 4.5 years which probably wouldn&#x27;t happen if we were myopically making people fail to get their money.