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that's not how that works

• oarsinsync 4y ago
  In theory or in practice? How should/does it work?
  • culi 4y ago
    By the literal definition of what an "externality" is. A company cutting costs by dumping their PFAS into the local river isn't being "paid for" by anyone. Except with our health and all the dead insects and fish and compounding environmental effects brought with it By definition an externality is a "market failure" because the market completely fails to account for this effect. There are "positive externalities" as well, but that's obviously not relevant here