I think you are mistaking "tragedy of the commons". It is a behavioral outcome, where individual actors take actions that immediately benefit them, but if every

I think you are mistaking "tragedy of the commons". It is a behavioral outcome, where individual actors take actions that immediately benefit them, but if everyone else does the same thing, then no one wins. Overfishing a public pond is a common example (the commons is obvious here: the pond), but another great example is standing up to get a better view at a large stadium event. If you stand up, you can see better. Unfortunately, this means the person behind you also has to stand up. Once everyone is standing up, no one is any better off than if they were all sitting. The analogy here is more like the latter: It is better for Manufacturer X to rush their IoT device to market to maximize profits, ignoring security concerns. If every manufacturer does this (the person in front of you at the stadium just stood up, so you stand up too), then whoa, we have millions of insecure devices waiting to be exploited. This is indeed a tragedy of the commons.