4 ms·
How do you figure that? Tragedy of the commons happens in the absence of ownership.
by duncan_bayne 9y ago
How do you figure that? Tragedy of the commons happens in the absence of ownership.
- chicob 9y agoYou are right, but that is just the case of rivers, phreatic water and the deep subsoil. It must be the State reclaiming ownership of those commons, making people that benefit from them pay for their maintenance.
- duncan_bayne 9y agoWhy must the State own them in order for that to happen? History - especially that of the USSR in recent times - suggests that there are better alternatives.
- chicob 9y agoThe State owning them is a proxy for shared responsibility. Because in democracies, the people controls the State by means of parliaments/senates/etc. Besides, the State doesn't have to own everything. There's a middle ground between the flexibility of private ownership and the rigorousness of public management. In the USSR everything was controlled by the State, and the State wasn't accountable by means of democracy. I must say that from were I come, I have some pretty good examples of good public management, like healthcare and water management.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- danharaj 9y agoYea, totally, the commons existed for thousands of years because it isn't sustainable.