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>Umm, because you wanted one of the many substitutable options. Even for total commodities which are perfectly substitutable the fact remains that offering ter
by xoa 8y ago
>Umm, because you wanted one of the many substitutable options.
Even for total commodities which are perfectly substitutable the fact remains that offering terms (including of course price) are an integral part of the product. If I'm selecting between two containers of flour that I knew were truly perfectly the same and chose the one that was cheaper, that's not random either. The terms under which someone makes a photo available is part of choosing one. They could have chosen one that was put into public domain or something like Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, or that someone was willing to just give for free, but didn't.
And of course in real life even our most basic commodities often merely have smaller differences, but still differences. Some brands may still be more reliable, or offer specific differentiation, or just make people feel subjectively better. This is hardly some new discovery of human psychology.
Which gets into this:
>You didn’t care which one, because they were largely indistinguishable from one another, so you chose one randomly.
Not that you actually support an assertion that the company Thunderball Clothing did in fact just use a random number generator and somehow got from that to his photo, but even if you did that would weaken your argument, not support it. Because if the products in question are indistinguishable, that's all the more reason to go with whatever has the most favorable terms. In a less competitive market there becomes more of an argument that someone's terms could have elements that were unconscionable, but in a commodified one "take it or leave it" is at its most justified.
Again, I don't think you or anyone else actually chooses at random very often. "Largely indistinguishable" is not "indistinguishable". Making a decision tree super simple ("lowest price wins" or "the first one that comes up in search" say) isn't random either. But even if you do choose randomly, that doesn't give the moral (let alone legal) right to just take it on your terms.