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Too much choice has two negative effects on people:
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We have an almost unlimited variety of choices, for example, hundreds of salad dressings, an unlimited variety of phones, choices in health care, prescription drugs and more.
Even something like our identity can become a matter of choice. We get to invent and reinvent ours...
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The problem that lies in the modern, affluent, Western societies is that expensive, complicated choices don't help. They make us worse off.
Therefore, income redistribution can make everyone better off, because of how excess choice plagues us. Too many choices don't give freedom. It paraly...
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Too many options lead us to expect perfection - you may never be pleasantly surprised by quality because your expectations have gone through the roof.
When you choose from thousands of options, you may always feel disappointed. You may think you're at fault because you could've chosen some...
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The dogma is this: If we are interested in maximising the welfare of our citizens, we have to maximise individual freedom. The reason is that freedom is good, valuable, worthwhile, and essential to being human.
The way to maximise freedom is to maximise choice: The more c...
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Having more options doesn’t mean that we will be happier, although, we often think that it will.
When we have too many choices, it is more difficult to take action, and if we decide, we are less satisfied with our choice.
Very few of us feel competent enough to choose between an overwhelming amount of options. When you are offered 156 different kinds of retirement plans, for instance, it can make you miserable to make a competent choice. For that reason, it might be easier not to make a choice.
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