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> If resource was peace and privacy (those aren't resources), and they were zero-sum Not to say I agree with your dubious attempt at bringing 'silence' into th
by Jedd 8y ago
> If resource was peace and privacy (those aren't resources), and they were zero-sum
Not to say I agree with your dubious attempt at bringing 'silence' into the fold of 'resource'.
When you start mining silence by the barrel from deep space, then we can start treating it as a commodity resource.
- andybak 8y agoA resource can be locally limited despite being globally (or universally) unlimited. Energy for example (to a certain degree) Also I'm not sure "zero sum" is the same thing as "limited". The former imposes stricter requirements. I'm sticking to my guns on this one.
- Jedd 8y agoI can't consume all the available quiet and therefore prevent you from having any.
- andybak 8y agoYou can consume all the quiet in specific area at a specific time. If that's not a limited resource then nothing is.
- Jedd 8y ago> You can consume all the quiet in specific area at a specific time. If that's not a limited resource then nothing is. a) I don't know how you'd measure 'all the quiet' to determine that I'd consumed all there was. b) even if I did, it doesn't prevent you from consuming as much (up to all) of 'the quiet' as you wanted, too. Which brings us back to why it's not a tragedy of the commons, and why the analogy doesn't work either.