They don't have to be public, they have to be shared. I thought you had some interesting economic point to make about these kinds of situations. So instead let

They don't have to be public, they have to be shared. I thought you had some interesting economic point to make about these kinds of situations. So instead let me make one of my own. Economics isn't physics, it's broadly applicable to any kind of situation you think to apply it to. Any time you have a situation where you'd want to say, "this is why we can't have nice things," you're looking at a tragedy of the commons.