Question
Utility and Usefulness.

Answer

UtilityUsefulness
1. Utility is the capacity of a commodity to satisfy human wants.(a) Anything (goods or services) are useful if they satisfy human want and generate human welfare.
2. A product may have utility irrespective of the commodity is useful or harmful, desirable or undesirable.(b) A product is useful only when it is desirable or beneficial and does not do any harm to a person.
3. All commodities have utility such as car, clothes, even harmful products like drugs, liquor, cigarettes, narcotics, etc.(c) Products such as food items, medicine, clothes, etc. are useful. Also services such as education, recreation are useful to people.
4. The term utility is subjective in nature as it changes from person to person, from place to place and from time to time.(d) The term usefulness is absolute in nature, it never changes.

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