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A 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 t
by andybak 8y ago
A 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.