CDR: Re: Insurance (was: why should it be trusted?)

[Sampo A Syreeni]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, R. A. Hettinga wrote:

>> How does crypto-anarchy/libertarian/anarchy propose to deal with the
>> "tragedy of the commons" where by doing what is best for each persons own
>> interests they end up screwing it up for everyone (Overgrazing land with to
>> many cattle is the example I've been given).
>
>The tragedy of the commons is that nobody owns it.

The point is, there are certain things which cannot be exclusively owned
without rendering the concept of rights, as most people understand them, for
all practical purposes moot. Air is one.

Sampo Syreeni <decoy at iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university