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The tragedy of the commons[0] seems to be the extended concept > a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users, acting independently according

• TeMPOraL 7y ago
  You're right, it's related. But I think it's a special case in which the commons is, from the very beginning, way too small to satisfy all the people interested in it, and one that doesn't have an intrinsic value, so not using it is just as bad as exhausting it (if there's a nice skyline, but no one ever experiences it, it may as well not exist at all). Tourism is an interesting case. Many aspects of it are an example of the "it's only interesting if very few people are doing it". My go-to example is the leaning tower of Pisa. The first photo of a person leaning on the tower was interesting. But everyone and their dog repeating this is just pathetic.[0] As for problems of tourism, I think most of them are self-inflicted, and it's not as much a tragedy of the commons as the issue of runaway externalities. Tourism today is mostly about living through artificial, fake experiences, specially created to handle and make money off the masses. But it's just the collateral damage that becomes a problem. -- [0] - https://www.tes.com/lessons/tXRD6CgSpPDS9A/art-scale-claes-oldenburg https://www.tes.com/lessons/tXRD6CgSpPDS9A/art-scale-claes-o...