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 827968
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026In reality, commons need not be tragic and many of our most important resources have been managed as commons for hundreds of years: archive.org/details/gove... 86/archive.orgGoverning The Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective ActionThe governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but ... 220240
Kaladin @windrunner405.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Unsurprisingly, Hardin was from Texas. Almost every native-born Texan I've ever met has felt like that. 000
r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 11/08/2026bsky.app/profile/reco...r@recombobulating.bsky.socialI don't think I was specifically taught it this way, but when I heard that there was something called the tragedy of the commons I just assumed it must refer to the enclosure acts. Rather than the upper classes having a duty to own and control Others because they are inherently incompetent. 0140
Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026You might enjoy the exorcism of Hardin that we've done in urban planning: Hardin’s imagined tragedy is pig shit: A call for planning to recenter the commons, 2020 share.google/9Sc4z8VquXP8...share.googleSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 0113
Compassion Reigns Supreme @crs1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026sewyknot.comCommons BesiegedIndustry hatches a creature incapable of thinking about anyone else – the corporation, able to diffuse financial and legal responsibility – like the brooms of Fantasia, shifting costs to others and e... 000
Is This Hell? 🏳️🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I had only gotten to the end of the first paragraph when I realized that the argument you're describing is more of that delusional economist shit where the whole thing rests on humans being predictsbly rational actors 100
