Tragedy of the Commons mfers when you point out that the only reason their imaginary pasture is overused and devalued is that it’s being used to feed private property.

For more info, look up Dr. Li Gima’s paper on the subject

The fact that virtually all of the developed world is operating under various systems of social democracy while not sliding into authoritarian communism is the most dramatic refutation of Serfdom that could exist.

I read it. It’s cartoonishly simple - and I can’t emphasize that characterization enough. It’s still trotted out as a “proof” that Medicare will inevitably lead the US to having a Stalinist dictator.

Tragedy of the commons solutions:

• Privatize shit, with a bunch of consequences
• Let the state own everything, with a bunch of consequences
• Elinor Ostrom getting the swedish national banks prize in alfred nobels memory for finding all kinds of solutions to the problem all over the world

But noooo, trust the internet weirdos that thinks it only means “privatize good”

I want to defend tragedy of the commons. The point is that if you have a resource that is depleted by use but that gives advantage to the individual user, then people are incentivised to use it.

However, the point we should take from it is the exact opposite of ‘communism bad’ – it’s that we need governance and regulation to prevent overuse of finite resources.

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