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Because there is no trade off on the other side of the deal. For example if someone is giving out free cookies to anyone who helped clean a park and someone takes a cookie who did not help, that is one less cookie to a person who did help.
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∙ 9y agoIn economics, a free rider is someone who does not choose to pay for certain good or service, but who would rather get the benefits of it anyway. They are considered a market failure because there is no trade off on the other side of the deal.
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