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Jan 30, 2022Liked by Maxwell Tabarrok

"If the costs of producing public goods stays constant or is lowered by technology, then as the population and investment in the neighborhood increases, the size that a dominant stakeholder needs to be in order to provide the most important units of a public good decreases."

Underrated point. Unfortunately, we see most of our "community technologies" (as I like to call them) like roads and policing rising in cost despite the deflationary power of technological innovation.

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