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Re:Statement on New York Times Article by alentist on Sunday February 14, 2021 @01:27PM (#26134757)
Reminds me of a concept called dominant assurance contracts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contract#Dominant_as...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A100495710953...

> Many types of public goods can be produced privately by profit seeking entrepreneurs using a modified form of assurance contract, called a dominant assurance contract. I model the dominant assurance contract as a game and show that the pure strategy equilibrium has agents contributing to the public good as a dominant strategy.

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