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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a shared good" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that is beneficial and accessible to a group of people, often in discussions about resources, community benefits, or public goods.
Example: "Access to clean water is considered a shared good that should be available to everyone in the community."
Alternatives: "a common benefit" or "a collective resource".
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While cooperation or division of labor does not occur through secretion of a shared good, it occurs by negatively influencing a shared enemy, which has the same effect.
Journalists attending a long trial together develop a special camaraderie born of a shared good mood: their stories are writing themselves; they have only to pluck the low-hanging fruit of the attorneys' dire narratives.
Going further, a free-riding argument suggests that individuals who refuse to participate are not 'doing their share' to contribute to a shared good; the individual enjoys medical knowledge 'for free', without making an in-kind contribution.
The commodification of sexual 'services' destroys the kind of reciprocity required to realize human sexuality as a shared good," and may corrupt non-market sexual relationships by promoting the valuation of women in terms of their market worth (Anderson 1993, 154-55; see also Radin 1996, 133).
Patty: The social justice world typically references a network of people who engage in what's called movement building work - organizing communities and community members toward collective action for a shared good, based on shared values and principles.
For both sides keeping money and businesses locally is a shared good, but as in so many other overlapping, yet somehow conflicting arguments, we won't admit that we actually agree unless the path to getting there has been tailored to our own sense of self.
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Imagine a planet on which people shared good news to stir others to do the same.
SnowyJohn shared: Good question.
A. Leadership is defining and sharing; sharing a dream, sharing a vision, sharing good ways of doing something right — and then showing that it's a team, a collective approach.
Last week, the stock saw the beginning of a rally back to $27 a share, good for a $67.5 billion valuation (based on roughly 2.5 billion shares outstanding).
Shared goods are moving beyond just products into a shared purchasing power for specific goods.
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