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s there a case for taking some of them away? Certainly there is a case for stopping manufacturers making one item and then branding it in several ways to give the illusion of choice. And if a clear message could not be provided through the marketing a single entity for multiple differing...

It's like asking is a knife good or bad. What a silly question, it just depends. A better question would be "does religion mark people happy!" Or "Does it dull their senses?" As in Marx.

You know I'd also like to read it if I get the time. And I don't know Jack about economics past the supply- demand graph. :)

So basically exactly what I said. Choices are either driven by motive or impulsive in nature. When our impulses are satisfied by a plethora of choice we then loose the capacity to be driven by motive. There are no motivating forces, no ethics or rules that you hold because you want to hold...

So what you are saying is that he is saying that today we get caught up in the pursuit of the "perfect" jeans because we have that choice. But before, if we had the means, then we would have just gone to a tailor to get our jeans fitted. And going to that tailor you would feel satisfied with...

Does Barry refer here to choices in a commodity culture? Since the choices that we make that really define who we are have not changed or increased with the years.

"If Barry Schwartz is right to say that choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied, is there a case today for taking some of it away from us?"