The tragedy of the commons is a general-purpose game theory concept. It applies any time there is a communal resource exploitable by multiple participants. In the abstract: any time you can do something for personal gain but for the detriment of everyone overall. Admittedly, in the case of unsafe dumping, the resource must be unintuitively defined as the cleanliness of the river or something like that, but the same principle applies as in the more clear-cut (heh) example of foresting.
(Wikipedia claims pollution is a “negative commons”; the theory still applies, but the resource is defined strangely.)
I feel we are getting into the weeds about something that doesn’t matter, ultimately, I still don’t know what identifying as an “authoritarian” or “totalitarian” even means.
I don’t really use those words tbh. I just think anarchism doesn’t account for how to solve the tragedy of the commons, so a global authority is needed.
The tragedy of the commons is about random people misusing public goods, not corporations practicing unsafe dumping.
The tragedy of the commons is a general-purpose game theory concept. It applies any time there is a communal resource exploitable by multiple participants. In the abstract: any time you can do something for personal gain but for the detriment of everyone overall. Admittedly, in the case of unsafe dumping, the resource must be unintuitively defined as the cleanliness of the river or something like that, but the same principle applies as in the more clear-cut (heh) example of foresting.
(Wikipedia claims pollution is a “negative commons”; the theory still applies, but the resource is defined strangely.)
I feel we are getting into the weeds about something that doesn’t matter, ultimately, I still don’t know what identifying as an “authoritarian” or “totalitarian” even means.
What no reading does to a mf
Yea lol
I don’t really use those words tbh. I just think anarchism doesn’t account for how to solve the tragedy of the commons, so a global authority is needed.