We Are More Rational Than Those Who Nudge Us – Steven Poole – Aeon

(‘For what else could possibly explain their health problems but their personal failings?’, the critic Evgeny Morozov asks sardonically. ‘It’s certainly not the power of food companies or class-based differences or various political and economic injustices.’) If refusing a nudge carries a financial or other penalty, how free does the nudged choice

A culture that believes its citizens are not reliably competent thinkers will treat those citizens differently to one that respects their reflective autonomy.