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Moreover, only one person needs to pay someone to fix it, and everyone benefits. What goes around comes around.

• wmf 18y ago
  Unless the cost of fixing the problem is higher than what any one person is willing to pay, so it never gets done (collective action problem).
  • jrockway 18y ago
    If not one person on the Earth cares about solving the problem, it is probably not that important. (Uh oh, here comes a rant about global warming and overfishing.)
    • kragen 18y ago
      Global warming and overfishing!
    • DougBTX 18y ago
      Avoiding the point, you assume that every problem can be solved by one person.