"The tragedy of the commons is not about how many people abuse the commons, but about the fact that the commons is abusable precisely because there are no prope

"The tragedy of the commons is not about how many people abuse the commons, but about the fact that the commons is abusable precisely because there are no property rights in it." Now this is rather circular reasoning. The tragedy of the commons relies on multiple persons. The whole theory of the tragedy of the commons says, that since you are not sure how much the other person will use the resource, you will use it as much as possible (even if it results in destruction of the resource). The whole reasoning falls apart if there is only one person using it. You must be working from a completely different definition of "tragedy of the commons."