HEY.
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HEY.
whenever someone comes at you, a leftie, about the "tragedy of the commons," just remember:
- Elinor Ostrom won a goddamn Nobel Prize in Economics for pointing out that it was a bullshit idea.
- the commons worked as a concept for hundreds of years until the land was Inclosed.
- the dude that named the concept, Garrett Hardin, was literally a eugenicist and believed that letting people starve to death was a good form of population control.
@PsyChuan@plush.city also the people who run around talking about the tragedy of the commons are the ones who are the most greedy. like come on man
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@PsyChuan@plush.city also the people who run around talking about the tragedy of the commons are the ones who are the most greedy. like come on man
@0x4d6165 yeah, the ones who most often go "oh but that won't work because of the tragedy of the commons!" are the ones that stand to benefit most from privatisation.
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@0x4d6165 yeah, the ones who most often go "oh but that won't work because of the tragedy of the commons!" are the ones that stand to benefit most from privatisation.
@PsyChuan@plush.city they're telling on themselves
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HEY.
whenever someone comes at you, a leftie, about the "tragedy of the commons," just remember:
- Elinor Ostrom won a goddamn Nobel Prize in Economics for pointing out that it was a bullshit idea.
- the commons worked as a concept for hundreds of years until the land was Inclosed.
- the dude that named the concept, Garrett Hardin, was literally a eugenicist and believed that letting people starve to death was a good form of population control.
@PsyChuan the only real tragedy of the commons is their enclosure
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HEY.
whenever someone comes at you, a leftie, about the "tragedy of the commons," just remember:
- Elinor Ostrom won a goddamn Nobel Prize in Economics for pointing out that it was a bullshit idea.
- the commons worked as a concept for hundreds of years until the land was Inclosed.
- the dude that named the concept, Garrett Hardin, was literally a eugenicist and believed that letting people starve to death was a good form of population control.
@PsyChuan Obligatory mention of The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber and David Wengrow.
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HEY.
whenever someone comes at you, a leftie, about the "tragedy of the commons," just remember:
- Elinor Ostrom won a goddamn Nobel Prize in Economics for pointing out that it was a bullshit idea.
- the commons worked as a concept for hundreds of years until the land was Inclosed.
- the dude that named the concept, Garrett Hardin, was literally a eugenicist and believed that letting people starve to death was a good form of population control.
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@PsyChuan@plush.city also the people who run around talking about the tragedy of the commons are the ones who are the most greedy. like come on man
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HEY.
whenever someone comes at you, a leftie, about the "tragedy of the commons," just remember:
- Elinor Ostrom won a goddamn Nobel Prize in Economics for pointing out that it was a bullshit idea.
- the commons worked as a concept for hundreds of years until the land was Inclosed.
- the dude that named the concept, Garrett Hardin, was literally a eugenicist and believed that letting people starve to death was a good form of population control.
My apologies for the ask:
What's the right starting point for reading Ostrom's work? Her 1990 "Governing the Commons" paper, or do I need to go further back than that?
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@PsyChuan the only real tragedy of the commons is their enclosure
@SallyStrange @PsyChuan Yeah, I feel like that's the tragedy itself. Someone DID come along and steal the commons. And then justified it with the theory. But it did happen.
One of those paradoxical thoughts.
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HEY.
whenever someone comes at you, a leftie, about the "tragedy of the commons," just remember:
- Elinor Ostrom won a goddamn Nobel Prize in Economics for pointing out that it was a bullshit idea.
- the commons worked as a concept for hundreds of years until the land was Inclosed.
- the dude that named the concept, Garrett Hardin, was literally a eugenicist and believed that letting people starve to death was a good form of population control.
@PsyChuan I think there are two ways to view that term:
(A): "you can trust citizens with free stuff"
(B): "you can't trust corporations with free stuff"(A) is used to argue against public transport, welfare, healthcare system, affordable housing and the terrible belief that monetizing everything is a solution to fairly distribute resources.
But (B) is just the observation of corporate greed.
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HEY.
whenever someone comes at you, a leftie, about the "tragedy of the commons," just remember:
- Elinor Ostrom won a goddamn Nobel Prize in Economics for pointing out that it was a bullshit idea.
- the commons worked as a concept for hundreds of years until the land was Inclosed.
- the dude that named the concept, Garrett Hardin, was literally a eugenicist and believed that letting people starve to death was a good form of population control.
@PsyChuan but think of all that unproductive land that could be generating value. Don't you want the number to go up?
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My apologies for the ask:
What's the right starting point for reading Ostrom's work? Her 1990 "Governing the Commons" paper, or do I need to go further back than that?
@vocumsineratio @PsyChuan
Re: "right starting point for reading Ostom.."
Depends on your background. If you have some advanced formal econ or poly sci bckgrnd, then start w/ the paper, --> Governing the Commons book.
Then for more: -->Rules, Games, & Common Pool Resources ('94 w/ Gardner & walker) --> Understanding Inst Diversity.
She didn't write for gen'l audience, so you may want to make your start w/ a bio of her (either Tarko or Nordman).Hope this helps.
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HEY.
whenever someone comes at you, a leftie, about the "tragedy of the commons," just remember:
- Elinor Ostrom won a goddamn Nobel Prize in Economics for pointing out that it was a bullshit idea.
- the commons worked as a concept for hundreds of years until the land was Inclosed.
- the dude that named the concept, Garrett Hardin, was literally a eugenicist and believed that letting people starve to death was a good form of population control.
@PsyChuan The atmosphere is a commons. We all use it to breathe and generally rely on it not to change too much.
Many people dump CO2 into the atmosphere, changing its properties and behaviour, leading to harm.
Everyone experiences the harm, including those who don't change the atmosphere.
Some people dump much, much more than others but face no additional costs.
If this isn't a tragedy of a commons I don't know what it is.
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HEY.
whenever someone comes at you, a leftie, about the "tragedy of the commons," just remember:
- Elinor Ostrom won a goddamn Nobel Prize in Economics for pointing out that it was a bullshit idea.
- the commons worked as a concept for hundreds of years until the land was Inclosed.
- the dude that named the concept, Garrett Hardin, was literally a eugenicist and believed that letting people starve to death was a good form of population control.
@PsyChuan I am reading Elinor Ostrom right now on this!!
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@PsyChuan@plush.city also the people who run around talking about the tragedy of the commons are the ones who are the most greedy. like come on man
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HEY.
whenever someone comes at you, a leftie, about the "tragedy of the commons," just remember:
- Elinor Ostrom won a goddamn Nobel Prize in Economics for pointing out that it was a bullshit idea.
- the commons worked as a concept for hundreds of years until the land was Inclosed.
- the dude that named the concept, Garrett Hardin, was literally a eugenicist and believed that letting people starve to death was a good form of population control.
@PsyChuan and people keep invoking it when they're actually talking about enclosure. Like how the internet as people use it exists at the whim of a few companies.
(Possibly what inspired your post? Not new info to anyone here in any case. Just AAAARGH)
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My apologies for the ask:
What's the right starting point for reading Ostrom's work? Her 1990 "Governing the Commons" paper, or do I need to go further back than that?
@vocumsineratio @PsyChuan the start and end of the books might be a bit thick in economic modelling, and might feel offputting. But after the first chapter, it's just practical examples after practical examples that are quite fascinating.
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HEY.
whenever someone comes at you, a leftie, about the "tragedy of the commons," just remember:
- Elinor Ostrom won a goddamn Nobel Prize in Economics for pointing out that it was a bullshit idea.
- the commons worked as a concept for hundreds of years until the land was Inclosed.
- the dude that named the concept, Garrett Hardin, was literally a eugenicist and believed that letting people starve to death was a good form of population control.
@PsyChuan The tragedy of the commons is absolutely real and a real problem. There are milions of exsmples.
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@PsyChuan I think there are two ways to view that term:
(A): "you can trust citizens with free stuff"
(B): "you can't trust corporations with free stuff"(A) is used to argue against public transport, welfare, healthcare system, affordable housing and the terrible belief that monetizing everything is a solution to fairly distribute resources.
But (B) is just the observation of corporate greed.
@dalius_berger @PsyChuan there was a controversy in the Republic of Ireland because water was unmetered and free so OBVIOUSLY people were squandering it.
A coalition including the Green Party began to roll out metering and set up a utility to charge people. It got massive popular resistance and was ultimately defeated, but the meters did go in.
When the dust settled it turned out Irish people used less water on average than the metered, privatised. UK.
Metering did help find leaks though.
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@dalius_berger @PsyChuan there was a controversy in the Republic of Ireland because water was unmetered and free so OBVIOUSLY people were squandering it.
A coalition including the Green Party began to roll out metering and set up a utility to charge people. It got massive popular resistance and was ultimately defeated, but the meters did go in.
When the dust settled it turned out Irish people used less water on average than the metered, privatised. UK.
Metering did help find leaks though.
The biggest problem really was that the water infrastructure had been let degrade to the point where about 60% of treated water was leaking into the ground.
This was happening both sides of domestic boundaries.
But not only was introducing charges political suicide during austerity, the paternalistic attitude to the public was just that, and people weren't overusing water just because they could.
The current biggest issue is malfunctioning toilets, I believe.
