Today we were forced to recognize that more is not always better, this was achieved through the creation of a tennis ball transport line which was made of students lining up side by side in order to transfer tennis balls from one side of the room to the other. The number of students gradually increased, which represented the addition of factors of production to the short term, meaning labor number could change but machinery couldn’t. After a point for every new student the number of balls transported in a period of 1 minute decreased by a large factor demonstrating the law of diminishing returns which say that there is a point where a saturation of workers are reached and that a plethora of workers will cause production to decrease.
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