During a volunteer program to rebuild a local play ground,a group of volunteers from a top corporation participate in the program.Among the 20 people that show up to help rebuild the play ground,there are two individuals that just talk to each other and do not do any work as the rest of the people.At the end of the day,the entire group takes credit for the renovated project.How do you best describe this situation with the volunteer program to rebuild a local play ground?

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The two individuals in the group who did not contribute to the work and still took credit for the project are free-riders. This means they benefited from the hard work of others without contributing anything themselves. This situation describes free-riding and the external cost imposed on others who did the work, as they had to pick up the slack for the two who did not participate.

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