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by literallyroy 10 days ago
Is this a better analogy?

The top student giving paid lectures about his classes, and another student skipping class and instead studying those lectures to end up with the second highest grade?

Maybe it could be improved with the other student not even going to the same school?

1 comments

In your example the problem is what exactly?
They don't like competition when they have to actually compete.
In capitalist economics they call this the “free rider problem”