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When it comes to collective action, people will exhaust every option except the one where they work together for the common good.
by CooCooCaCha 1y ago
When it comes to collective action, people will exhaust every option except the one where they work together for the common good.
- blitzar 1y agoI see a lot of working together to stop any new properties being built, for them it is the "common good" - by common they exclude all "outsiders".
- CooCooCaCha 1y agoClearly that’s not what I meant, and you seem to have figured that out yourself. I meant the common good of society. The greater good, if that makes more sense.
- api 1y agoIt’s mostly about home equity, and this is a very common collective behavior called a cartel. It’s illegal for corporations to do this in most cases, but individuals certainly can. Housing is probably the main area where they do, with neighborhoods forming organic cartels to restrict supply to raise price. As with all cartels the solution is to break it up or take away its ability to restrict production using lawfare and other means.