The distinction doesn’t seem clear to me at all—in no case does anyone pay if they don’t expect to be better off than if they didn’t pay.
“pay me $5 or I won’t give you this hamburger”. “pay me $60 or I’ll put a lock on your storage unit so you can’t get in”. “if you don’t tip everyday, your latte might be made with a little less care”. Which are these?
IMO, whether to carry an umbrella is exactly the same learning and decision as learning what happens when you pay or don’t for something.
The interesting feature of a threat is that it occurs because the person making the threat expects you to change your behavior in response to the threat, but whether it rains is independent of whether you would respond to rain with an umbrella.
The distinction doesn’t seem clear to me at all—in no case does anyone pay if they don’t expect to be better off than if they didn’t pay.
“pay me $5 or I won’t give you this hamburger”. “pay me $60 or I’ll put a lock on your storage unit so you can’t get in”. “if you don’t tip everyday, your latte might be made with a little less care”. Which are these?
IMO, whether to carry an umbrella is exactly the same learning and decision as learning what happens when you pay or don’t for something.
The interesting feature of a threat is that it occurs because the person making the threat expects you to change your behavior in response to the threat, but whether it rains is independent of whether you would respond to rain with an umbrella.