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"Tragedy of the commons" (eugenics)

Commons based peer production

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Some authors, like Yochai Benkler, say that with the rise of the Internet and digitalisation, an economics system based on commons becomes possible again.^[199] He wrote in his book The Wealth of Networks in 2006 that cheap computing power plus networks enable people to produce valuable products through non-commercial processes of interaction: "as human beings and as social beings, rather than as market actors through the price system".^[200] He uses the term networked information economy to refer to a "system of production, distribution, and consumption of information goods characterized by decentralized individual action carried out through widely distributed, nonmarket means that do not depend on market strategies".^[201] He also coined the term commons-based peer production for collaborative efforts based on sharing information.^[202] Examples of commons-based peer production are Wikipedia, free and open source software and open-source hardware.^[203]

The tragedy of the commons has served as a pretext for powerful private companies and/or governments to introduce regulatory agents or outsourcing on less powerful entities or governments, for the exploitation of their natural resources.^{[204][205][206]} Powerful companies and governments can easily corrupt and bribe less powerful institutions or governments, to allow them exploit or privatize their resources, which causes more concentration of power and wealth in powerful entities.^[207] This phenomenon is known as the resource curse.^[208]

^{https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem}

 

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