By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026That means that you might as well keep on cheating, since the instability - and the guard labor bills - are coming no matter what. 83/ 11233
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026In the tale of the "Tragedy of the Commons," a common pasture is grazed to dust by shepherds who each understand that if they don't graze their flock until everything is gone, some *other* shepherd will do so. 84/ 11347
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026The original "Tragedy of the Commons" paper was a racist hoax perpetrated by an academic fraud who wanted to make the case for the expulsion of black and Brown people from America and their mass extermination abroad: memex.craphound.com/2019/10/01/t... 85/memex.craphound.com“The Tragedy of the Commons”: how ecofascism was smuggled into mainstream thought – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX 827867
