free-rider

The problem is that investments in the future and public goods will always be unfunded in a free market capitalist economy due mainly to the free-rider problem.

The project itself would not be a free-rider, because it would need to provide sufficient value to justify its cost.

I'm not suggesting that he is a free-rider, but his example suggests that SV decisions aren't that optimal.

This suffers from the free-rider problem: you end up doing research for others.

Yes, obviously open source can be funded in a variety of ways, but supply falls short of demand due to the free-rider problem.

That kind of idealism falls short because of the free-rider problem.

With regards to patents, we can understand them as a solution to free-rider problems.

If your 'shorter-work-hours' results in everyone else needing to put in 'longer-work-hours' to satisfy global needs and/or demands, then there is an argument that you are a free-rider.

And then you have the free-rider problem.

You could then counter argue that the project that you wish to support through force becomes a free-rider it self as the project beneficiaries don't have to compete in the economic market the same way as those forced to pay for them are.

"Right to work" undermines collective bargaining -- which itself is an attempt to redress the structural imbalance of employer-employee negotiations -- by introducing free-rider incentives to employees.