Another Volokhian speaks
("Volokhian"—sounds like a race you'd meet on the Andromeda TV show. I like it.)
Mr. Bernstein:
Feh.
When they run the bake sale such that it has the intent and effect of affirmative action programs, then you can morally defend them.
So let them sell their baked goods at reduced price to those who, rightly or wrongly, they feel are unable to afford them at full price for reasons outside the purchasers' control. That would accurately reflect the intent of affirmative action programs. And I don't care what cause they ascribe to the purchasers' inability to raise the cash.
With that in place, let them set up any other conditions they wish, in a conscious attempt to skew the sales such that people who can readily afford the baked goods, and have the means to get them—at the bake sale, at the bakery, the supermarket six miles away, anywhere they want—wind up underserved somehow.
As I said, Feh.
All I need now it some nonsense by Tyler Cowen to be posted there and my day will be complete.
