Free to Move Quotes

“An informed electorate is a public good, in the economic sense of the term:22 people benefit from its production even if they have not contributed to its creation, each individual’s contribution is infinitesimally small, and the benefits are “nonrivalrous”—my enjoyment of them is not reduced by that of other members of society and vice versa. Like many other public goods, it tends to be underproduced, because individuals have strong incentives to underinvest in it. Informed foot voting, by contrast, is largely a “private” good that avoids this problem: individuals have strong incentives to produce it for themselves, because they stand to reap the benefits.”
― Ilya Somin, Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom