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Analyzing a Firm's Payoff Calculation

A large agricultural firm operates as a price-taker, selling its crop on the world market. The firm's management defines its 'payoff' as its total net income. This is calculated using the revenue from crop sales, the direct costs of production (which vary with the quantity produced), and income from unrelated financial investments. A local community group contends that this calculation is flawed because it omits the financial harm caused to a local tourism business by the firm's pesticide spray drift.

Analyze the firm's method for calculating its payoff. Based only on the goal of maximizing its own net income, explain the reasoning for excluding the financial harm to the tourism business from its calculation.

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