Barry Schwartz concludes his TED talk on the paradox of choice with the image of a fish in a fishbowl, and he asks: How free is that fish? Yes, of course the fish is confined, but to shatter the fishbowl, to remove all constraints, would not improve the fish’s situation. In fact, it would destroy him. Schwartz says, “The absence of some metaphorical fishbowl is a recipe for misery, and, I suspect, for disaster.” And then ends flatly, “Thank you very much.”
