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Re:An argument that companies should pay users for their data by s73v3r_ on Thursday March 08, 2018 @12:37PM (#16546009)
The idea that people are perfectly rational actors with perfect information has long since been debunked.
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Re:An argument that companies should pay users for their data by ancap on Thursday March 08, 2018 @01:30PM (#16546430)
Sure people are rational, even though you as an external actor may not agree with their motives. Even a schizophrenic is rational given what they have to work with.

I'm not sure what perfect information has to do with anything. It's impossible that perfect information could ever exist.

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Re:An argument that companies should pay users for their data by s73v3r_ on Thursday March 08, 2018 @02:12PM (#16546782)
No, they're not. They're people. They do not act perfectly rational.
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Re:An argument that companies should pay users for their data by ancap on Thursday March 08, 2018 @02:57PM (#16547140)
> They do not act perfectly rational.

I suppose you have your own definition for "perfectly rational" that you're standing by, and that's fine. But I fail to see the point. How is that relevant to this thread?

I originally posted that people wouldn't use these web services if they didn't receive some benefit from it, and you've done nothing more than present red herrings.

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