Good knowledge is not given to consumers of knowledge.
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A: A system where you pay 1 cost and put in knowledge and get more than 1 social utility out of it.
B: A system that pays 1 cost to put knowledge into the system but produces less than 1 utility.
From the perspective of knowledge sender X, putting knowledge into A is a method of altruism to [efficient B's system needs to pay X for knowledge
For example, suppose X writes a book and mechanically reproduces about 30,000 copies of it, the recipient pays 3,000 yen, and 300 yen of that is distributed to X.
In this case, X weighs the effort of "writing a book" against the self-interest of "getting 9 million yen" and makes a decision
X is not interested in whether that knowledge helps B.
The onus is on B to determine that.
There are too many of them in the first place for me to keep an eye on them.
X is interested in whether that knowledge will help A.
Because usefulness is a requirement for "X to be efficiently altruistic"
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