Agreed that it's not novel. But Ostrom's novel observation wasn't that. It was "all those stories of how shared ownership of resources leads to tragedies? they

Agreed that it's not novel. But Ostrom's novel observation wasn't that. It was "all those stories of how shared ownership of resources leads to tragedies? they're wrong, and part of a mostly uncoordinated attempt to get you to abandon the idea of shared ownership of resources. It is, as ever, greed and power that lead to those tragedies".