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Re:The Feds Are Coming for John Deere over the Right to Repair by SideQuark on Friday October 18, 2024 @06:58PM (#41884241)
Tragedy of the common is a concept dating back to ancient times that has extremely broad empirical support throughout history. The essay you mention took the name from all this real world experience, and even if the essay is bad, the concept is anything but.

A simple search finds more examples and references to literature than you can likely read in years.

I’d recommend starting here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

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Re:The Feds Are Coming for John Deere over the Right to Repair by kennywinker on Sunday October 20, 2024 @02:22AM (#41893323)
Dating back to ancient times - specifically Aristotle. Aristotle also believed that women are deformed men. That some people deserve to be enslaved. That deaf people are incapable of reason.

So, just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s true. Just like “kids these days” or “seems like nobody wants to work anymore” some bad ideas are evergreen.

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Re:The Feds Are Coming for John Deere over the Right to Repair by SideQuark on Thursday October 24, 2024 @05:24AM (#41933730)
> So, just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s true

No one claimed it's true because it's old. If you like reasoning fallacies, you should love the concept of a strawman.

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