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52 sats \ 1 reply \ @drlh 2 Jun \ parent \ on: The tragedy of the commons is a false and dangerous myth econ
I think it's right to say, at least for original study because it is based on the fact that fisher would continue to take fish from the pond on everyone's detriment. But this assumption breaks when you think of the fisher's motivation: what he gonna do with it? Sell to everyone else? There is no market stipulated in the issue afaik. And primitive people are ready to kill when you stupidly erode natural resources.
Limited resources create natural monopolies that's true, and usually people don't benefit from rich resources under their soils, only a handfull of elite.
Look at the Chinese fishing fleet off the coast of Argentina for the counter to that point.
The community still has to exert their ownership wrt to outsiders, which means they resolved the tragedy of the commons internally, by making it not a real commons.
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