Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“Week before last I was up for jury duty, instructed to check a web page twice a day to see if they wanted me to come in. The first two days they did not, the third day they did. I was told to come to the south county courthouse by nine in the morning; so were more than eighty other people. … What most struck me, as an economist, about the process was the implication of its having access to nearly free labor — there was no payment for the first day, fifteen dollars a day thereafter.” (12/02/25)