Disagree w Alan here. A lot of people don't want to live in cities, even if they could have large apartments. There's so much to hate! * crime * diversity (but I repeat myself) * noise * litter * lack of parking * corrupt Dem machine politics * pollution * ...the list goes on.https://twitter.com/AlanMCole/status/1503919903040053251 …
to some degree it IS ceteris paribus, but ... he's just calling people's attentions to the fact that baskets are baskets. So I don't see it as a fallacy. Imagine if there was a law that every gas powered car had a speed limiter at 25 mph, and someone said >>>
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"95% of people choose electric cars. That's revealed preference that electric cars are better / that's what they really want." a red tribe member might say "no, given electric-plus-no-speed-cap vs gas-plus-speed-cap, they prefer the former ... you have not proven your claim
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and I'd agree w that red triber that his argument was well formed - just as I'm agreeing w Alan who is arguing for cities (which I dislike) that HIS argument is well formed.
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