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Re:Why London’s NYE Fireworks Display Broke Economics Textbooks by chrisseaton on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:04PM (#25595901)
> Seeing fireworks in non-rivalrous, but being somewhere is ... BTW, the title doesn't make any sense

Neither does your comment! What do you mean 'in non-rivalrous, but being somewhere is'?

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Re:Why London’s NYE Fireworks Display Broke Economics Textbooks by Swenrekcah on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:11PM (#25595999)
The article uses the term. If there is a star in the sky and I see it, I don’t consume it so that you can see it too.

But if I occupy a spot, I “consume” that so you can’t be there simultaneously.

So there is rivalry if we both want to be there.

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Re:Why London’s NYE Fireworks Display Broke Economics Textbooks by chrisseaton on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:13PM (#25596018)
Yes but 'in non-rivalrous' doesn't make any sense.
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Re:Why London’s NYE Fireworks Display Broke Economics Textbooks by whoisburbansky on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:17PM (#25596066)
It took coming down to your comment to realize that GP had “in non-rivalrous,” I’d just glossed it over and assumed it said “is”
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Re:Why London’s NYE Fireworks Display Broke Economics Textbooks by smorephism on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:08PM (#25595956)
Being in a place can be thought of as a rivalrous good because other people cannot simultaneously be in that place.
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Re:Why London’s NYE Fireworks Display Broke Economics Textbooks by jamespwilliams on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:08PM (#25595948)
s/in/is
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