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Written by Metalpoet :pentagram: on 2025-01-15 at 10:11

If the "tragedy of the commons" is when somebody abuses a commons leaving too little for everyone else, then I guess #enshittification is (one form off) the "tragedy of private property".

Contrary to what some would argue - the answer to the tragedy of the commons is NOT to give up on having a commons, it's simply to have rules and social contracts that govern access to the commons in an equitable and sustainable manner.

But what answer is there to the tragedy of private property ? The inevitable urge of owners to place their interests in a resource ahead of the community that relies on that resource ?

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Written by Metalpoet :pentagram: on 2025-01-15 at 10:14

The history of the past 2 decades of history includes empirical proof that the standard economic claim: "privatising a resource leads to it being well managed because the owner wants to keep making money from it tomorrow" doesn't actually hold true in the real world.

The best way to make money tomorrow, especially to make more money tomorrow, may not be to preserve the resource well. It could well be to strip it off as much value as you possible can before people give up on it entirely, to the detriment of everyone who relies on it.

This can be hard to see or quantify with physical resources, but it's very visible in digital resources like social networks

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Written by Metalpoet :pentagram: on 2025-01-15 at 10:22

@rms over fourty years ago started warning that software should not have owners, because non-free software leads to non-free humans.

@pluralistic gave us a term for the degradation of the digital commons we've all experienced over the past two decades.

And I think they add up to: social networks should not have owners. They need to be public property because non-free social networks leads to non-free humans.

PS. and I am certainly not the first person to think this, I'm just expressing my understanding of what smarter people than me have explained many times.

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