Re: The Axiom of Choice
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Some magical amount is what economists call market equilibrium.
He has absolutely no clue, nor can he ever have a clue, as to what number of choices *I* want to have, or what number of choices *someone else* wants to have.
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How can you just randomly assert this? I'm fairly sure there are studies done that show quite clearly that people are happier when they have less choice, and he references many of them in his talk.
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How can I assert that I know what I want better than the speaker? Ummm...lol?
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So yeah, he knows, generally speaking, that people often prefer having LESS choice.
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How much is the *perfect amount of choice* and how does he know we currently have *too much*?
How would one even discover how much is the perfect amount for *everyone*?
What if I like 200 salad dressing choices, but you only want 5 choices? Currently the grocer is most profitable providing 175 choices. Which one of the three of us should be able to violently enforce our preference onto everyone else?
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To say that market equilibrium is infalliable is absurd.
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But a cabal of political elites deciding how much choice should be available for everyone else in the society isn't absurd. Right.
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