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This happens all the time and is in practical use one of the best justifications for regulation. There must be a more specific term for it I’m forgetting, but
by svnt 3y ago
This happens all the time and is in practical use one of the best justifications for regulation.
There must be a more specific term for it I’m forgetting, but it is essentially the tragedy of the commons.
There are many things that are good for society where if one business did them, that business would lose market share or cease to exist, but it is in the public interest that the specific thing be done. Regulation is the proven answer there.
In this case the primary difference is we are talking about regulating cities instead of companies.
- rcbdev 3y agoI feel like this is a roundabout form of the Prisoner's Dilemma.
- noduerme 3y agoI think this is closer to my point, which was that some ideas can only work at scale. That doesn't mean they will work at scale. But having them fail small doesn't prove or disprove anything. So you come up with a federated database model for your company with 30 employees, and find yourself in dev hell and wasting resources on an expansion that could have been solved with a slightly larger monolith. That means you chose the wrong tool for the local job. It doesn't mean the other tool couldn't be effective for a larger job.