:: Armchair economics! ::

Monday, April 19, 2004

It just occurred to me that job placement and dating sites have an economic incentive to offer less-than-optimal (from a consumer standpoint) services, because if they provided perfect matches, they'd be robbing themselves of a large segment of future customers. The blissfully employed and the eternally love-struck are not repeat visitors (unless there's some sort of tragedy, like if your spouse is mistaken for a ibex and gutted).

Thus, the "victim of one's own success" curve.

This curve also applies to pharmaceutical companies and drug-dealers.

Posted by morland @ 01:11 PM

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