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Diminishing marginal utility implies that, for each unit of production consumed, utility is increasing at a decreasing rate. Therefore, a consumer's greatest utility gain is always at the first unit of a good and then steadily falls to 0 as they approach infinity. A consumer's willingness to pay for a good depends on their expected utility gain, so as quantity approaches infinity, willingness-to-pay approaches 0 at a diminishing, negative rate.

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