Cahpter 7 concept

Hi class

The concept I found to be very interesting is free-riding. Free-riding is defined as a person who obtains something without effort or cost.  The reason I found this to to be interesting is because I have experienced this first hand. When I was junior high school, I use to free-ride all the time. We would have assignments to do, like math problems and I would pretty much get all the answers from my classmates without even attempting to find out the answers on my own. As I got older and smarter, I started doing my homework assignments on my own, with little to no help. I also learned that free riding can be very annoying. I did not realize that until it happend to me. In my english class in high school we was assigned a paper to write and it was based off a book we had to read. In class we had to work in groups and review each others rough drafts and make grammar corrections and suggest idea for the other person's paper. I just so happend to finish my paper early so I brought that paper in to class. I was working with this guy who didn't even start his rough draft. He did not start because he did not read the book. So he started to take notes for his paper, from my paper. He wrote his essay based of the information he found from my paper.

I found that to be very annoying becuase its like, I did all that work, read the book and everything and he basically copied my paper and put it into his own words and got a good grade in it. That is not right and it made me want to become a free-rider again because its like, why would I put in all this effort to do well on things if I can save myself from the stress and free-ride other people and still get good grades from it. Then I realized that I won't get far in life free-riding people, so still to this day, I put in a lot of effort and do my own work. You become a smarter person doing it that way anyways.