It’s the ratchet effect of language. The bar for using a stronger term is lowered, thus strong terminology becomes the minimum, and new superlatives arise for extreme circumstances.
it’s not true that people ruin commons. people preserve commons. the tragedies that have occured happened under capitalist enclosures of the commons, but the story that goes “people sharing resources don’t share nicely and ruin it for everyone else” is a capitalist myth designed to encourage privatization and non-cooperation.
If we take the idea as true, as it’s presented in the image, why might people do that?
Could it be that people believe that unless they shout and scream, no one will hear them?
Where did they get that idea from, and to what degree is it true that only the loudest voices get heard?
It’s the ratchet effect of language. The bar for using a stronger term is lowered, thus strong terminology becomes the minimum, and new superlatives arise for extreme circumstances.
Tragedy of the Commons: fight for attention edition
tragedy of the commons is a capitalist myth
It’s a phenomenon directly caused by capitalism, what are you even saying?
it’s not true that people ruin commons. people preserve commons. the tragedies that have occured happened under capitalist enclosures of the commons, but the story that goes “people sharing resources don’t share nicely and ruin it for everyone else” is a capitalist myth designed to encourage privatization and non-cooperation.