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Originally Posted by RWebb
cute!
what is it called if...
You have two cows.
You pasture two cows on public land.
They overgraze and wipe it out.
You move the cattle to another pasture on public land.
But it wiped out because your neighbor's two cows already wiped it out.
All the elk die out from lack of pasture.
The cows all die too.
Pasture turns into a desert.
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Economists actually call that "the tragedy of the commons"
