Re:PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights
by shiroiushi on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @08:08PM
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There's no tragedy of the commons here. A paid service provided by a private corporation is not "the commons". The commons refers to something like a municipal park owned by the public and run by the local government, and a tragedy of the commons is jerks going to the public bathroom there and leaving it a mess, stealing the toilet paper, etc.
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Re:PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights
by Gormo on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @07:49AM
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"The public" is an abstraction, and the local government is just another specific organization. Everything is people, all the way down, and it is profoundly anti-social to rationalize away hostile, destructive behavior simply because you have an emotional prejudice against people who engage in commercial business.
The reality is that the behavior you are trying to justify doesn't impact the equally abstract "corporation", it impacts the actual people whose activities that concept represents -- employees, customers, investors, etc.