Like casinos, large corporate entities have studied the numbers and the ways in which people respond to them. These are not con tricks - they're not even necessarily against our direct interests, although sometimes they can be - but they are hacks for the human mind, ways of manipulating us into particular decisions we otherwise might not make. They are also, in a way, deliberate underminings of the core principle of the free market, which derives its legitimacy from the idea that informed self-interest on aggregate sets appropriate prices for items. The key word is 'informed'; the point of behavioural economics - or rather, of its somewhat buccaneering corporate applications - is to skew our perception of the purchase to the advantage of the company. The overall consequence of that is to tilt the construction of our society away from what it should be if we were making the rational decisions classical economics imagines we would, and towards something else.
Nick HarkawayTags: systems power choice society capitalism economics information corporations
That's the thing about freewill: Every decision we make is a choice against something as much as it is for something else.
Rebecca SerleTags: choice decisions against freewill for
Information overload is a symptom of our desire to not focus on what's important. It is a choice.
Brian SolisTags: choice focus information-overload
That is what love is. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making, over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.
Cameron DokeyTags: love choice fairy-tale
He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.
Benjamin FranklinTags: choice consequences
Although her disobedience is tragic, Eve’s innocence is not all bad. Certainly, that innocfence leads her to make a poor choice - the very worst - but the fact that she makes a choice at all, the fact that she engages the Devil in a debate which could go either way, the fact that she acts without God breathing down her neck - all speak for her free will or, what amounts to the same thing, her margin for error. It is from this margin for error that freedom springs, because you can’t be free to right unless you can be free to be wrong.
Robert Rowland SmithTags: choice free-will philosophy decision genesis eve
Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.
Robert M. PriceMercy is stronger than your sword.
P.C. CastTags: life strength choice mercy violence sword realize
Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.
C. Wright MillsIf love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?
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