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Maybe you can rephrase in a way us peasants understand your point as well without a dictionary?



Excludable = you can exclude people from benefiting from it. (E.g., Fixing global warming is not excludable while temperature control in your own house is.)

Rivalrous = more people getting it leads to less for others. (E.g., Software is not rivalrous, but hardware is.)


I wanted a rephrased statement, not a dictionary extract. Because I still have no clue what your piont is.


My point is just that the words this guy is using have commonly-accepted meanings and he’s using them wrong.




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