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Is There a Way Around the Free Rider Problem?
Stephanie Coontz: I don't h think you can, no, i guess what i'm coming from a little bit on this. Its like arrow's impossibility theorym There are certain things that just turn out to be hard that there isn't a way to square the circle of. If we really make it open to all, we have the free rider problem. We might not call it coercion, but the the dyl systems sort of create these club goods and exclude some people. It is essentially, maybe we're not using coercion, but we're doing something. That's why 'm looking for at was a bit more an honest thing of those trade offs in the