ZOMG MICRO ECONOMICS WTFFFF

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Social Surplus=Net benefit to society, this stuff is created when benefits of something outweight its costs, like giving money to people who live near airports to make them happy about their [censored] conditions

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i thought social surplus was the net benefit to society of having something available on the free market? i.e. on a S/D graph, the area of the triangle between actual P/Q and the S/D intercepts.