# Characteristics of Goods From [[David Dalrymple]]'s talk at March 2022 [[Funding the Commons]]  A good can be: - **rival** to the extent that benefitting from it detracts from others' capacity to benefit - **excludable** to the extent that it's feasible for someone to exclude others from benefitting from it - **transferrable** to the extent that one can give all benefits from it to someone else - **divisible** to the extent that it's feasible and natural to split into smaller pieces - **fungible** to the extent that the world contains many perfectly interchangeable copies of it