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"All that was left was a question, one that haunts river communities all over India: Why would any village so willingly accept such paltry gains for certain cat
by makomk 10y ago
"All that was left was a question, one that haunts river communities all over India: Why would any village so willingly accept such paltry gains for certain catastrophe?"
Surely one answer is obvious: if one person didn't, their neighbours would and the disaster would still happen and still affect all the people who didn't participate.
- dredmorbius 10y agoTragedy of the Commons meets a backward-S supply curve. https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/53mcxn/backward_s_shaped_supply_curves/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/53mcxn/backwar... Reminds me of the double-bind faced by oil and gas drillers against monopolistic transport (rail or pipeline), and the Rule of Capture.