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How do you propose to fight it? Everybody acts in their self interest all the time.
by cyrksoft 7y ago
How do you propose to fight it? Everybody acts in their self interest all the time.
- richk449 7y agoThe fact that everyone acts in their own self interest is well known. Typically this is countered by some combination of societal mores and laws. Think Moses and “thou shall not steal”. If you want to solve tradgedy of the commons type problems, the two known solutions are privatization and regulation. Nobody has yet thought of a way to privatize the earths climate, so we are pretty much stuck with regulation. That sucks. But the alternative sucks worse.