The Free Rider Problem: When Consumers Don't Pay for Shared Public Resources

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If you utilize something without paying it for it, like a park, it makes you a free rider. And finding solutions to sustain these resources is harder than you think. Professor of marketing Tarun Kushwaha says "you can never have a completely free public good that is sustainable in the future forever. It eventually will fail" in an interview with Business Insider. 

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