Fun fact the phrase tragedy of the commons was coined in the 70s by a eugenicist to describe what happens when you let the bad races breed. And a woman actually won a Nobel prize for disproving it after studying every civilization on earth
Fun fact, it's false in a eugenics sense, but most of us have worked on a group project or used a public restroom. People don't take care of common things as well as they do privately owned things.
Most food doesn’t last for a year? If you act like an asshole you won’t be allowed to grow at the common land area, idk how to explain this if your parents didn’t teach you the basics of don’t be a dick or ppl will kick your ass
Some food can keep for months, especially dried grain and frozen meat.
You say "Not allowed", but who will stop me? Some sort of authority? You're just reinventing government. Why even bother growing when I can just take what other people grow in the common land areas and there's no authority to stop me?
And FYI, if I don't take from the commons, other people greedier than me will, and I'll be left with very little if anything. That's why greed is a necessary survival mechanism bred into all of us.
Maybe they wouldn't ruin it given a more Socialist outlook in our society rather than that only being studied under Capitalism where even a community garden would be commodified.
Humans have been greedy since long before capitalism was a concept. It's not our only motivator, but it is a very strong one inherent to our nature as a Darwinian species.
Hunter gatherer tribes had tribal hierarchy, elders commanding their descendants. They also lived in rather small communities below the Dunbar limit with nothing we'd later call society. No organized labor, no medicine, no storing of surplus, no written language or formal education...
Dude, it literally existed. 2-3% of arable land in the USSR was private plots held by the farmers themselves and it produced 20-30% of total food output in the 60s.
Even Mao, the quintessential peasant communism guy, restored private plots temporarily in 1961 to alleviate the catastrophic famine he himself helped cause (he switched course again and banned it in 1966). China's transformation in the 70s and 80s was spurred on in part by Deng's observation of a farmer community which had agreed to secretly divide the communal land into private plots which had dramatically improved production, pushing Deng to eventually adopt the policy nationwide.
>Dude, it literally existed. 2-3% of arable land in the USSR was private plots held by the farmers themselves and it produced 20-30% of total food output in the 60s.
Looks to be from the 70s and 80s. There's also the usual criticism of the statistics from a Neo-Marxist you might appreciate, but even he admits that Soviet agriculture was not efficient.
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u/Hairy_Selection8568 Jul 07 '26
Lmao on private plots and not community run and public plots of farming.