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Smokers pay more for healthcare, at least in the US. That's an internalized cost, not an externality.
by missedthecue 5y ago
Smokers pay more for healthcare, at least in the US. That's an internalized cost, not an externality.
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- more_corn 5y agoYou misunderstand what externalized means. Externalized cost means external to the manufacturer. It is a phrase used to refer to a method os extracting profit while harming society/humanity/the world. It literally means a cost born by someone other than the one profiting. The health cost is externalized for the producer because it is shifted to the consumers.
- missedthecue 5y agoWhether someones profiting or not has nothing to do with it. A negative externality is simply any economic activity that imposes costs on an uninvolved party.