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What is the tragedy of the commons? – Nicholas Amendolare



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Is it possible that overfishing, super germs, and global warming are all caused by the same thing? In 1968, a man named Garrett Hardin sat down to write an essay about overpopulation. Within it, he discovered a pattern of human behavior that explains some of history’s biggest problems. Nicholas Amendolare describes the tragedy of the commons.

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36 thoughts on “What is the tragedy of the commons? – Nicholas Amendolare
  1. So how do you fix this problem? One of the fishermen buys the pond. He sells the fish to the villagers and maintains it. It now becomes HIS self interest to make sure the pond remains self sufficient, so that he can profit. Nice topic but you failed to outline the important lesson here…. the only way to avoid a tragedy of the commons is to remove public goods altogether. Privatization is the only way we can achieve proper resource allocation. This includes clean air…. if you privatize air space, it can become unprofitable to pollute and companies will have to find alternatives for their production means. Everyone learn from this, please.

  2. So the real tragedy is withholding education from those who share the commons so they cannot understand long term effects of their actions. Ladys and gentlemen! I give you: the college loan crisis.

  3. The same thing applies to things like traffic jams. A few people have their own self interest in moving forward but block traffic till eventually everyone else is forced to adopt the same strategy but this makes the traffic jam worse…

    I think from a game theory perspective it shows how we should move away from individual optimal strategies to equilibrium strategies that are optimal for everyone, but also how fragile those equilibrium stratergies are given the greater short term incentives to deviate from whats optimal for everyone.

  4. I did this experiment with my group of fishing scenario in my science class. And even after I tell them to take only two or else the fish population will collapse, THEY FRICK'IN TOOK ALL OF THE FISH IN THE FIRST ROUND and we are the first group to lose the challenge. I hate them.

  5. as they say
    no man is an island
    .
    and that nature thrives by living for others so to serve the better good
    the fruits of trees is not for themselves
    rivers dont drink its own water
    and even a flower's fragrance is not for itself
    .
    living for others and others for oneself has always been the most effective way to thrive

  6. But in modern time, the resource of everything is quite limited, hence, there comes the competition, which will advance our human civilization, which, in turn, benefit those who in need. I know that sounds easy, but it is why it can be so easy to implement incorrectly, leading to irreversible consequence in the meantime.

  7. Tragedy of the commons warns against collectivism and lack of private property rights not self intrest and capitalism. This speaker completely twists the meaning of tragedy of the commons.

  8. the tragedy of the commons would be absolutely demolished if we had a socialist or communist society instead of a capitalist one. thats facts

  9. Question: Why didn't the fishermen share one fish or two fish per day? That way, they'd be able to maximize fish in the long term.

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