• JohnDClay
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    11 months ago

    Tragedy of the commons, benefit to an individual incentives a larger harm to everyone.

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      11 months ago

      More like tragedy of capitalism, since it’s the only system in world history where so called “tragedy of the commons” actually happens with any regularly, proven by the fact there were sucessfully managed Commons millenia old before capitalism ruined them and claimed they were always doomed from the start

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        11 months ago

        Yeah it only collapses with high utilization, which you don’t get with some systems.