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timelets ([personal profile] timelets) wrote2021-11-29 10:54 pm

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In the Three Little Pigs tale, the brick house is a non-exclusionary non-rival good, which can be modeled as a distributive category.

BH x (Pig1 + Pig2 + Pig3) -> BHxPig1 + BHxPig2 + BHxPig3.

[personal profile] gomberg 2021-12-01 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
It is very much exclusionary, at least before everybody is in: the door can be locked. But it is, certainly, non-rivalrous: each pig can happily consume the security it provides without taking anything away from the others.

Anyway, formal models of (non-rivalrous and non-excludable) public goods (such as safety) are well-developed. What exactly are you trying to achieve with your own model?