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Agreed about this situation. However, the "tragedy of the commons" itself is actually kind a myth, and agricultural/grazing commons worked quite nicely for ages
by einpoklum 4y ago
Agreed about this situation. However, the "tragedy of the commons" itself is actually kind a myth, and agricultural/grazing commons worked quite nicely for ages in many parts of the world.
See also:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-editorial-collective-an-anarchist-faq-full#text-amuse-label-seci6 https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-ed...
- datadata 4y agoInteresting, I had always thought the term came from the actual example of Boston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Common https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Common, and the depletion of resources in Rapa Nui is another prime example of a failure case. In any case, we have useful concepts that come literally from myths, e.g. "Faustian bargain", maybe this concept will eventually go that way?
- mattm 4y agoYou can't compare the past to today when cities in the past were merely thousands of people and the people were working with primitive technology.