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The problem with this is people investing their time/expertise/money/energy into the common good and then have a small number of people ruining the benefit for
by lbriner 3mo ago
The problem with this is people investing their time/expertise/money/energy into the common good and then have a small number of people ruining the benefit for their own ends, knocks the well-meaning out of the most positive people. The common good only works well when everyone wants the common good.
- yoyohello13 3mo agoAh, then my second wish will be for everyone to want the common good.
- aleph_minus_one 3mo ago> Ah, then my second wish will be for everyone to want the common good. People have very different, often contradictory opinions what the "common good" is. I would even claim that this question is a special case of the millennia-old philosophical problem of defining what "good" actually means (i.e. defining ethics), which has resulted in myriads of different opinions: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_ethics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_ethics
- willturman 3mo agoYou seem to have independently discovered the market failure commonly know as the Free-rider problem, for which there are many solutions, and which is not a dispositive preemptive argument against the establishment or management of common good(s). For example, Elinor Ostrom won a Nobel Prize for her work illuminating design principles illustrated by long enduring common pool resource institutions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom#%22Design_principles_illustrated_by_long-enduring_CPR_(Common_Pool_Resource)_institutions%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom#%22Design_princi...