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> tragedy of the commons style issues, like free bathrooms in SF being destroyed or otherwise used improperly This is only incidentally tragedy of the commons,
by gottorf 3y ago
> tragedy of the commons style issues, like free bathrooms in SF being destroyed or otherwise used improperly
This is only incidentally tragedy of the commons, which refers to publicly-accessible things that if individual actors rationally maximized their own utility would become depleted. Smearing excrement over a public bathroom is not rational utility; it's a crime whose perpetrators should be disincentivized from doing so.
- bombcar 3y agoTrue, but even without "violent vandalism" you still can have a "not taking care" of common areas that leads them to be run-down and unclean, without direct crimes (unless you start making things like littering strongly punished)