Commons tend to function until you introduce an external market. When consequences hit you where you live and you're the only one eating the fish, you're incentivized to balance consumption with the environment's capability to produce. When there's a bottomless well of demand from people who don't live anywhere near where the exploitation is occurring, then stocks get overdrawn and systems start to break down.
Commons tend to function until you introduce an external market. When consequences hit you where you live and you're the only one eating the fish, you're incentivized to balance consumption with the environment's capability to produce. When there's a bottomless well of demand from people who don't live anywhere near where the exploitation is occurring, then stocks get overdrawn and systems start to break down.