“Common good” seems to imply that everybody benefits.
Nope, incorrect. "Common good" has been redefined by the Xiden Administration to mean their common good!
“Common good” along with “greater good” is nothing but a term used by communists to guilt or shame someone into doing something that will benefit someone else but be to your detriment.
same as general welfare
davy crockett on charity
https://www.npri.org/davy-crockett-on-charity-and-government-redistribution/
Putting tens of thousands of hard-working people out of work in the energy industries is a strange view of promoting the “common good” unless you are a psychopathic marxist.