AltaVista was bad, Google was awesome and I probably would pay $100/month to make up the difference today if I had no choice but to pay. This is on the order of 2.5% of aftertax, pre-rent income. I wouldn’t have been able to afford it when Google first came out.
I usually credit altruistic effects to cohorts of agents with logically correlated decisions, rather than assuming that in any election won by two votes, nobody’s vote had a marginal effect; this is a separate big issue but says that I wouldn’t just assume the consumer surplus generated by their lives’ decisions, vanished after somebody else would’ve done it anyway—somebody has to be the somebody else and get credit for that.
AltaVista was bad, Google was awesome and I probably would pay $100/month to make up the difference today if I had no choice but to pay. This is on the order of 2.5% of aftertax, pre-rent income. I wouldn’t have been able to afford it when Google first came out.
I usually credit altruistic effects to cohorts of agents with logically correlated decisions, rather than assuming that in any election won by two votes, nobody’s vote had a marginal effect; this is a separate big issue but says that I wouldn’t just assume the consumer surplus generated by their lives’ decisions, vanished after somebody else would’ve done it anyway—somebody has to be the somebody else and get credit for that.
You’re an infovore.
I’m also cheap.