• teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    It seems like Hardin didn’t even originate the thought problem. The article conveniently leaves out that Hardin simply wrote an article about, and created terminology to refer to William Forster Lloyd’s thought problem from over 100 years earlier. Instead they opt to give the racist credit. Why?

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      1 year ago

      Again, the commons is not an imaginary thought experiment, but a real thing that existed, and the so called tragedy is just flat out bad history.

      William Forster Lloyd was an early 19th century British economist, I can fucking guarantee he was racist too.

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        1 year ago
        1. it is in fact an economic and sociologic thought problem. There is so much overwhelming evidence to show that this is the case, that the burden of proof is on you to explain it all away.
        2. yes, you’re right, humans have always been racist and still are today. That doesn’t mean we should erase any and all knowledge racist people have ever generated. That would amount to literally everything.