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Article: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
- Article from:
- The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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GREED'S WIN OVER THE COMMON GOOD
The tragedy of the commons describes a dilemma in which multiple individuals acting independently serve their own self-interest and ultimately destroy a shared limited resource, even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's long-term interest for this to happen.
Although its origins relate to overgrazing on communal lands, it applies to the big bowl of Halloween candy I left outside my front door while we were away from home for one hour on Halloween night. I left a sign to "take one," and when we returned an hour later all the candy was gone. I checked with my neighbors and they said they only had two small groups of ...
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