It's worth pointing out for clarity that I wasn't rabbiting the point used by the powerful to enclose commons, where regulation means enclosure, but rather referring to enclosure itself as the tragedy. I will happily read the directed Manifesto, thanks. But I think it's also clear that commons are often abused, though the classical abuse appears uncommon.. because unregulated commons simply collapse early. Those that appear "unregulated" are more often regulated by social structures; no less significant than threats of reprisal in the right context! However, online, we lack the means to enforce social censure effectively, particularly against large enclosing actors. On 05/01/15 20:52, Chrrles Paul wrote:
It might be good to give Peter Linebaugh's "Magna Carta Manifesto" a read for some understanding both on how the "tragedy of the commons" never actually happened, and how the popular struggle for access to the commons is what eventually gave rise to Parliament and participatory democracy.
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Cathal Garvey <cathalgarvey@cathalgarvey.me> wrote:
Earlier, in fact. The phrase "tragedy of the commons" derives from nobel-prize-winning research that found that unregulated commons more often than not are abused to the point of collapse.