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The thing about children is that they generally don't have the experience or knowledge to make decisions like this. Besides, voting with your dollars is a fall

The thing about children is that they generally don't have the experience or knowledge to make decisions like this. Besides, voting with your dollars is a fallacy.

dredmorbius 9y ago
voting with your dollars is a fallacy. Howso?
- petermcneeley 9y ago
  Game theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsBvI9oSD1g&feature=youtu.be&t=747 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsBvI9oSD1g&feature=youtu.be...
  - dredmorbius 9y ago
    Good video ;-) https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/6UShLKP3BxK https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/6UShLKP3...
colemannugent 9y ago
We're not talking about children, these are college students. They can weigh the risks/benefits of piracy. >voting with your dollars is a fallacy What do you mean by that? Are you suggesting that companies will survive without any customers buying their product? The only situation in which voting with your wallet doesn't work is when you have no choice. In this situation, the students do have the choice to pirate the books, buy used books, or bite the bullet and buy the book.
- CaptSpify 9y ago
  > In this situation, the students do have the choice to pirate the books, buy used books, or bite the bullet and buy the book. Definitly not true. Many classes require entering a code just to submit homework
tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> The thing about children is that they generally don't have the experience or knowledge to make decisions like this. very true. >Besides, voting with your dollars is a fallacy. in an oligopoly such as education where the purchase and sale of goods/services is subsidized then the power of voting with your dollars is diminished. the core concept is not a fallacy, and is actually a good metaphor for market action. the problem is that 18 y/o young adults are able to borrow far more money than they ought to be able to, creating a market of naive buyers with extraordinary buying power. its no surprise that some of them buy things like comparative literature or gender studies degrees.

The thing about children is that they generally don't have the experience or knowledge to make decisions like this. Besides, voting with your dollars is a fallacy.

dredmorbius 9y ago

voting with your dollars is a fallacy. Howso?

petermcneeley 9y ago
Game theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsBvI9oSD1g&feature=youtu.be&t=747 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsBvI9oSD1g&feature=youtu.be...
- dredmorbius 9y ago
  Good video ;-) https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/6UShLKP3BxK https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/6UShLKP3...

colemannugent 9y ago

We're not talking about children, these are college students. They can weigh the risks/benefits of piracy. >voting with your dollars is a fallacy What do you mean by that? Are you suggesting that companies will survive without any customers buying their product? The only situation in which voting with your wallet doesn't work is when you have no choice. In this situation, the students do have the choice to pirate the books, buy used books, or bite the bullet and buy the book.

CaptSpify 9y ago
> In this situation, the students do have the choice to pirate the books, buy used books, or bite the bullet and buy the book. Definitly not true. Many classes require entering a code just to submit homework

tensor_rank_0 9y ago

> The thing about children is that they generally don't have the experience or knowledge to make decisions like this. very true. >Besides, voting with your dollars is a fallacy. in an oligopoly such as education where the purchase and sale of goods/services is subsidized then the power of voting with your dollars is diminished. the core concept is not a fallacy, and is actually a good metaphor for market action. the problem is that 18 y/o young adults are able to borrow far more money than they ought to be able to, creating a market of naive buyers with extraordinary buying power. its no surprise that some of them buy things like comparative literature or gender studies degrees.