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I think you may be misunderstanding--because I did not make clear--what I mean by "public good.' I intended to use it in the technical economic sense which cove
by pdabbadabba 10y ago
I think you may be misunderstanding--because I did not make clear--what I mean by "public good.' I intended to use it in the technical economic sense which covers goods that are non-rivalrous and non-excludable (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good#Terminology.2C_and_types_of_goods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good#Terminology.2C_and...) not the looser 'anything offered by the government' sense. Although there is plenty of room for debate about what is or is not covered by this concept, there are plenty of things that clearly are not (e.g., a factory's widget inventory) and it remains objective: nobody is free to simply 'make' everything a public good in this sense.