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Plain vanilla and loaded with options

Dan Crawford | August 21, 2010 5:47 am

Hat tip to MV=PQ (Tim Schilling) for this cartoon:

Options, Choice and Exchange

This strip would seem to indicate that too many options can create problems when making choices.

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3 Comments
  • rjs says:
    August 21, 2010 at 7:46 am

    a TED talk i posted in the same vein: the paradox of freedom

  • m.jed says:
    August 21, 2010 at 4:39 pm

    somebody has to make the choices.  It can either be the consumer or someone else. 

  • jazzbumpa says:
    August 22, 2010 at 9:39 pm

    It’s a dig at the classical ecoomic idea hat every transaction benefits both parties.

    JzB

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