At 01:42 PM 8/5/2004 -0700, David Masten wrote:
What utter bullshit! The last century has demonstrated over and over again that when something 'belongs to all', it really means it belongs to a tyrant and his inner circle. Why have these idiots not learned after all the tragedy of the last century that socialism *cannot* work?
Even if that were not true, the tragedy of the commons is universal and inevitable. If something belongs to everyone, no one has any incentive to maintain it or conserve it (except those few who are farsighted enough to see the fallacy, and care enough to do the right thing because it's the right thing - but there are never enough of them).
-R
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