Mill claims that we, the public, are good judges of consumer goods, but poor judges of cultural and intellectual goods, such as books, music, and art. Do you agree? Is it, in your experience, easier...

Mill claims that we, the public, are good judges of consumer goods, but poor judges of cultural and intellectual goods, such as books, music, and art. Do you agree? Is it, in your experience, easier for you to judge the value of a consumer good such as a car, a VCR, or a quart of milk? Or is it easier to judge the value of a novel, a movie, or a CD record? In this age of advertising, with millions of competing consumer goods, do we need government regulation to protect us? What about medicines and drugs? Are we, as consumers, good judges of their value? If we turn over the job of evaluating commodities to the state, how do we guarantee that the state will protect us?