For maximum Twitter points I could have Twitter-won the argument by pointing out @themattsimpson's your/you're error here but
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That was a joke, sorry @themattsimpson
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Jumping up a meta level, does the value of information justify doing this?
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Certainly not to me--I think voting is immoral!
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he's right. Marginal values don't have to add up to total values and in fact almost never will.
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Normally the sum of marginal values is *less* than total value. In this case it's more. That mucks with intuition...
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...but is correct in this case. If this were a market we'd have a failure - e.g. railroads w/o eminent domain.
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