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  Question 17: Give examples of production processes which do not result in products that can be taken away from the producer and individually consumed by whoever gets hold of them.   
  [25] Tsunami: Some examples of production processes that can not be appropriated and individually consumed are those called “public goods”: national defense, fire and police departments, public education. Nonetheless, I remain quite skeptical that there are products that cannot be stripped from the producer and individually consumed in some capacity. Knowledge, education, women's reproductive rights, etc. have been appropriated at some time or another. National police and military forces regularly turn against the people, leading to coup d'etats and bloody civil war, as in Nicaragua and Cambodia.   
  Hans: Good argument. Nevertheless I think the trend is in this direction, even if it can never be achieved 100 per cent. For instance it is possible to extract knowledge from knowledge producers but leave the knowledge producers themselves pretty much ignorant, but it is tricky, and the more social sciences develope the trickier it will become.   
 
 
 
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