Tyler Cowen: evaluation

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…[laughs] If you can just ration how much your kid has the bunny, parents are going to love it, I agree. The same as with screens. A lot of children — they keep on wanting it. It’s hard to tell the child you can’t have it now. In the old days, it was watching television. “Oh, Mom, can I watch Star Trek again? Can I watch TV seven hours a day?” Well, that’s not good, and that’s hard to ration. Yes, so there’s some question here of how we portion this out. We do this today with TV, where if you’re traveling with us, like on a plane with us, or if you’re sick, you get to watch TV — the baby — and otherwise, you don’t, because from various perspectives, it seems like it’s not the most helpful thing. You’ll probably need to find a way to gate this. It could be, “When mom and dad are doing chores to help you, you get the thing. When they’re not doing chores, the thing goes away.”…

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