@pvonhellermannn I must have bookmarked your post when I first arrived at Mastodon last year. It is as relevant now as it was when you wrote it. #capitalism #colonialism #commons
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@pvonhellermannn Love it. Tragedy of the Commons reminds me of the Chicago School of economic theory, espousing that a free market solves everything. We see how that works out. In America, many like to scream about freedom and rights. Fact is, the world is finite, and shared. That confers responsibility. "Freedom"must be governed by responsibility, and responsibility is where much of life's meaning lives. I skimmed your essay, but will read thoroughly later!
@pvonhellermannn Brilliant article, thank you 🙏 I don't understand how something so obviously untrue - and disproven - can still be taught essentially as fact. Although I think I found my answer later in your blog when you're talking about that larger Owner-Ruler class protecting their interests above everything else. Steering educational doctrines must be an important part of that?
@pvonhellermannn How then does one teach the effect of unregulated access to common resources? How do we think about the atmosphere, a global commons, before and after regulation of carbon emissions? Do we just say, "unregulated commons" versus "regulated non-commons"? I'm genuinely confused by this. There absolutely are commons that are affected because they are unregulated or exploited by actors who don't follow regulations, aren't there? Your blog didn't clarify this for me.
@pvonhellermannn brilliant! Thank you!
@pvonhellermannn thanks for sharing. I’m sending this to my students, who I’m sure will respond really positively to your piece (and, of course, boosting here).
@pvonhellermannn I followed you, can you follow back please?
I've just published my first ever blog: "The Tragedy of the Non-Commons"
I wrote it in July, frustrated by a Twitter thread about how the Tragedy of the #Commons continues to be taught at universities. I then left it (it's somewhat experiemental) but with #COP27 and #Twittermigration coinciding this week, I just wanted it to be out there. Would love for it to be shared here on our #digitalcommons and grateful for any comments
medium.com/@p.vonhellermann/th…
The Tragedy of the Non-Commons - Pauline von Hellermann - Medium
The climate and ecological emergency is a Tragedy of the Non-Commons. The fact that most resources and power are in the hands of the few has terrible consequences for us all. The ‘Tragedy of Commons’…Pauline von Hellermann (Medium)
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Pauline von Hellermann
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in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •Some interesting content here - I enjoyed the read.
Let me please test my understanding of your conclusions here:
1. Common ownership of property / capital should not be frowned upon; as
2. private ownership (.e.g by "owner-rulers") is itself driving environmental damage and societal injustice
3. We should therefore consider dismantling some existing private ownership structures
I will be publishing something on LinkedIn shortly which touches upon some of these broader themes, with a slightly critical and alternative lens.
KizzyDaze
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in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •I'll need to re-educate my former students now!
Graham Boyd
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in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •Interesting! We tend to think of "the commons" within the framework of European centered thinking, correct? I.e., Commons vs a freehold. The thesis is then freeholds are more sustainable under the "tragedy" theory?
Another question is if there is research or other understanding that shows how precolonial indigenous people - The Americas, Africa, Asia, Australasia - treated their "commons" and any comparison to to an equivalent freehold notion, or if that even existed?
Anna Nicholson
in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •Not realising that you had posted this last year (and that I must have read it then, or at least intended to!), I have just read it – it’s very well argued
I’d always assumed that the ‘tragedy of the commons’ was simply that the commons (what communities have in common) had been removed from those communities by enclosure of various forms
So not having read Garrett Hardin’s 1968 paper, I was surprised to see that it had been debunked
It sounds as though your ‘tragedy of the non-commons’ is closer to what I had thought the tragedy of the commons was
Jonathan Harker
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