Another great article, Eric! I agree, Financial Coercion, as formulated, is implausibly too strong of a claim. Perhaps some weaker version that instead said “Financial factors make voluntary choice difficult” would be more tenable; although I worry this weaker claim would seem to be trivially true.
Thanks! I agree. It's hard to specify the weaker version to capture the right aspects, and I'm not even sure that it's always true that the choice gets more difficult. I have some more thoughts that I'll put in another post at some point.
Another great article, Eric! I agree, Financial Coercion, as formulated, is implausibly too strong of a claim. Perhaps some weaker version that instead said “Financial factors make voluntary choice difficult” would be more tenable; although I worry this weaker claim would seem to be trivially true.
Thanks! I agree. It's hard to specify the weaker version to capture the right aspects, and I'm not even sure that it's always true that the choice gets more difficult. I have some more thoughts that I'll put in another post at some point.