Reading and Voting on the Fine Print

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Reading and Voting on the Fine Print

Understandably, normal people do not like reading pages and pages of fine print. In fact, there are very few circumstances in which most individuals wade through the contracts and other forms they sign at doctor’s offices, banks, and the like. For example, the authors of a scholarly article published in 2014 in the Journal of Legal Studies observe that “only one or two of every 1,000 retail software shoppers access the license agreement and that…