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

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

(‘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