See: Public Good.
Throw your ideas of privacy out your window. But not your clothes. You can keep those on.
Private goods are goods that are bought and consumed, and when they’re consumed, it prevents someone else from consuming it. When you buy popcorn and Sour Patch Kids at the movies, these are private goods. You’re buying them, and you consume them, which prevents others from consuming them. Sharing with your friend still makes it a private good, since the good is “excludable.”
What’s a good that’s non-excludable? A fireworks show. Some people pay to see the fireworks show, and get let into the little gated area with the best seating. Yet others can stand in the right places outside of the paid, gated area, and still “consume” the good, for free. Yep, free riders. Where there are free riders there are non-excludable goods.
Those who did pay aren’t having a lesser fireworks show because of the free riders. That means it’s also non-rivalrous, since many people can enjoy a fireworks show.
Some rando at the movies couldn’t consume your popcorn without directly taking it from you though, unlike the fireworks show. Popcorn is a rivalrous good; only one person can have each piece of popcorn.
When there are limits to who can consume something, it’s rivalrous. When others are excluded from consumption because you bought it, it’s excludable. Excludable and rivalrous = private good. Clothes, parking spaces, and food are all private goods: you have to buy them, and only so many people get use out of them at a time.
Private goods contrast with public goods, which are non-excludable (free), and non-rivalrous (consuming by one doesn’t lessen consumption by another). Like public parks.
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the public has a lot of things mostly opinions but
also goods like public goods or goods or services that
all people of society have access to which are created
for public benefit rather than profit If you want to
get all technical about it well public goods are non
excludable and non rivalrous Well non exclude ability means that
nobody is excluded Even if someone didn't cough up any
cash to receive the benefits of that good whether you
paid your taxes or not you can go to the
park into the library Didn't pay Doesn't matter We'LL Non
rival risk means that more and more people can consume
the good without additional costs and without preventing others from
consuming the good There Yeah just because your breathing the
air While that doesn't stop your neighbor from doing so
you can take your dog on a walk in the
park which won't stop others from indulging in the parks
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and rivalrous I e The opposite of a public good
Well a private good like How about roller coasters A
roller coaster is rival risk since there can be only
so many people on the roller coaster at once if
the theme park is conforming Teo you know safety regulations
Anyway The roller coaster is also excludable because well you
have to pay to get into the theme park to
ride the roller coaster because well theme parks care about
profit Roller coasters are definitely private goods Will public good
sound pretty great right There's something you topic about them
Everyone can use them at the same time and without
paying a cent But they have their fair share of
problems just like private goods The biggest issue is the
free rider problem which is well when people take advantage
of public goods by not paying their fair share of
the good For instance if you've ever watched a firework
show from afar for free when it cost money to
get closer well then you're a free rider You benefited
from the fireworks show but you didn't pay for it
and you couldn't be excluded from watch Sing it since
it's like you know in the sky well when people
get the benefits without having to pay for the costs
of that benefit Many goods and services that people would
otherwise be willing to pay for will disappear or never
make it to the market at all Take our fireworks
Example If everybody decided to free ride and watch the
fireworks show from a bit farther away for free and
nobody bought tickets to that firework show well then they're
probably not going to be one next year The moral
of the story while too much free riding kills firework
shows and you know other goods which is why exclude
ability and property lines are so important at least important
to respect A theme park wouldn't last long if there
wasn't a wall surrounding it and you could just walk
in and ride the roller coasters for free The free
rider problem goes hand in hand with positive externalities like
positive externalities air benefits somebody gets without paying for them
and without necessarily even asking for them For instance if
you love firework shows and happen to have a great
view of firework show from your backyard while you just
got a positive externality the fireworks show producer can't charge
you for viewing the show from your own backyard Maybe
there would be more firework shows if they could make
them mohr excludable reducing the positive vibes or positive externalities
that they're given out for free right So what makes
our public goods like parks and libraries work well The
free rider problem is avoided because those goods are typically
paid for by the government which means it's funded by
taxes And who pays taxes You D'Oh The public does
anyway the people who work which means free riding isn't
a problem because most people are already paying for the
parks and libraries Oh whether they like it or not
People who aren't paying taxes are free riding when they
hang out in the park in the library But because
the numbers of free riders air so few well it
doesn't really affect the funding of those goods And at
least as a present it's not problematic enough to make
libraries and parks shut down But we'LL see what the
future holds here What else are you free riding If
you're not paying your fair share of taxes while things
that everyone in the country benefits from like national defense
it's an access to clean air and water Public radio
Yeah that's a freebie to All right Well free riding
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