• Cybersteel@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Is the dev naive or young or something? Here in the US, people abuse public utilities, free services, etc all the time. It’s just the way it is, it’s in our nature as humans after all, to get the most of everything and leave nothing in return.

    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      Disproven multiple times, though actually something of a real life memetic hazard as people who are taught the tragedy of the commons tend to then act as if it was real thus causing it to be real. Its basically a way for rich sociopaths to justify their own behaviour by convincing other people to act the same way.

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          4 days ago

          The prisoners dilema is a worst case scenario as you can have an infinite number of prisoners but just one can create the worst possible scenario for everyone else, the commons generally has the ability to sustain a couple of selfish people without breaking down. Everyone has their own threshold for how much abuse of shared resources they can tolerate before they too will begin to abuse those resources out of self preservation, society stops working properly when that process hits a tipping point that makes it self sustaining so it encompassas everyone.

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      5 days ago

      It’s not in my nature. I’d bet it’s not in yours, either. We’re both human.