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In April 2009 in Recycling

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Charles M. 105°

It depends on how you define "economy".

If you define it the way people experience it (ie. satisfaction and comfort) then clearly giving away stuff you don't need increases the comfort or utility to the person who takes it.

If, however, you define the economy in the same way that economists do: dollars spent, then clearly giving away stuff for free means reduced expenditure which is bad for the economy.

Thus examples like this underline why economic thinking is broken and needs rework.

Written in April 2009

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