One word: arbitrage.
Skinner did this, teachers use it throughout the country. It works mightily well with those on the autistic spectrum, and when one is a literal thinker it is a good approach. With normal kids in a household parents rarely need it and gaming the system is not for a household but for institutions. While I despise logical consequences and positive reward systems (operant conditioning) as opposed to natural consequences (the later would be Adlerian), the truth is you have to modify your parenting for the child you have not the child you thought you would have. This is not very different from reward charts and is a good way of making sure a child does not get too much screen time and use it as a tool for keeping the household functioning, in our house it is simply getting homework done and limiting screen time with a timer.
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