[SMCC1]

The guy explains Thaler and Sunstein's proposition and then analyzes. Just thought it was interesting. Sunstein is friends with Obama and may be a Supreme Court pick.

[tbw2]

Is their argument that social manipulation via fines / taxes / denied rights is fine as long as they don’t totally make it illegal / impossible to do as you choose?

[frithguild]

Paternalistic libertarianism at work:

Actually, it sounds similar to compassionate conservatism, which has had the same result on our financial institutions as Serum 111 had on Alex DeLarge