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> If you ask anyone The world makes more sense when you learn that what people say and what they do are almost never the same. This is why markets and other a

• SulfurHexaFluri 6y ago
  Its more complex than that. People aren't given a choice of "This is the pixel phone with spyware and this is the pixel phone without spyware, they cost the same and are functionally identical" They are shown a pixel and nothing is said of privacy, and then if they know to dig deeper and find an option with more privacy but much more expensive and lacking massive amounts of features. In some cases its impossible to avoid a trade-off. A bigger battery will result in a bigger phone so people who say the would buy a bigger battery phone end up not doing that. But for privacy, there doesn't have to be a trade off.
• mola 6y ago
  Why do you think what people do is a better indication of what they want as oppose to what they say they want? For example, some addict wants to quit, but continue to abuse. I think a lot of modern tech is designed to make us addicts. So it's pretty apt example. And of course, using the market as the only indication of what people want is creating incentives that optimize for addiction.
• derbOac 6y ago
  But revealed choice isn't a true indication of preference if the options to choose from don't allow for expression of preference. The market isn't some neutral A/B test because the seller is incentivized to manipulate A and B. It's more of a market game situation, where buyer choice says as much about seller preference as it does buyer preference at some level.