Imagine two cities. In one, it is safe for women to walk around at night and in the second it is not. I think the former city is better even if women don’t want to walk around at night, because I think that option is valuable to people even if they do not take it. Preference-satisfaction approaches miss this.
Don’t people also have preferences for having more options?
Don’t people also have preferences for having more options?
I believe that’s generally outside the model. It’s like asking if people have preferences about the ranking of their preferences.