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snowwrestler on June 4, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes

There's a net benefit to eating out every night (it's tasty and we don't have to do dishes), but my wife and I still consider the costs.

Just because something produces a net benefit does not mean that there are infinite funds to allocate toward it.

anigbrowl on June 5, 2013 [–]

Those are benefits. A net benefit means it's more economically efficient than the alternative - which might be true for you, but isn't necessarily so.

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