@pluralistic When I first learned this "fun fact" I was truly shocked and assumed it was exaggerated or wrong. It's not.
@GraniteGeek @pluralistic It's not really a fact, though, is it? I mean he might have invented the term itself in 1968, but the argument is far older.
It's maybe not a great term, anyway: the "commons" e.g. in England hundreds of years ago would have been regulated to prevent those kinds of problems anyway. 😂
I always thought of "tragedy of the commons" as a nice argument for environmental regulation. Doesn't Ostrom's work anyway mostly talk about how to make, you know, rules, for governing commons? Like, if you didn't have the rules/customs, it would lead to, you know, tragedy?
Doctorow has some amazing articles, and some... not so amazing articles. This is the latter category, to be sure. What's even the point? That some people he disagrees with on mainstream issues are also fringy nutjobs?
@ech @GraniteGeek @pluralistic
Would you believe that the phrase "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" is a paraphrase of words written by a neo-Nazi? Would you then claim that the sentiment behind that phrase is older than the original statement of it?
This paraphrase is based on an even NEWER statement (from 1993) by NeoNazi and self-admitted possessor of child pornography Kevin Strom. Isn’t there a point to me explaining this?