Post AVSbtwOXAexCcYujD6 by kfogel@kfogel.org
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 (DIR) Post #AVSbtuvQdO4u40HyCm by mousey@mastodon.seattlematrix.org
       2023-05-08T18:08:22Z
       
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       TIL that the "Tragedy Of The Commons" was a HOAX!! Entirely made up by (you guessed it) a racist (eugenicist) white guy to justify (of all things) colonization and ethnic genocide. wonderful.https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/Thank you @pluralistic -- That's the last nail in the coffin of my doubts about the open source movement's potential (further) longevity.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVSbtvenugNGKjWCvo by CarlMuckenhoupt@mastodon.social
       2023-05-08T20:49:27Z
       
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       @mousey @pluralistic (I remember seeing a historian talk about how in the Tragedy of the Commons has it exactly backwards. Actual common grazing lands have generally had a very good track record, because most people want to get along with their neighbors. When the land gets taken over by an individual owner who isn't part of that community? That's when it gets overgrazed.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AVSbtwOXAexCcYujD6 by kfogel@kfogel.org
       2023-05-08T23:34:24.002862Z
       
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       @CarlMuckenhoupt @mousey @pluralistic FWIW I think Elinor Ostrom (may her memory be for a blessing!) made this point eloquently and repeatedly.