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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 26073732, member: 4626&quot;]I think you missed the point (assuming you&#039;re not just joking; hard to tell on the internet these days).&nbsp; Still even if you were joking, for the benefit of others:&nbsp; The point isn&#039;t that the window shouldn&#039;t have been fixed after the kid broke it; the point is that the overall economy is worse off because the kid broke the window.&nbsp; It&#039;s the kid, not the people involved in the window repair, that made the town&#039;s economy worse off, because all the activity and resources involved in fixing the window could have been used for things more productive and beneficial if the window hadn&#039;t been broken.&nbsp; The story is basically a way of illustrating the concept of opportunity cost, and how any property destruction (or waste) is always a net negative to the economy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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