No, it is because citizen allow treating them like this.

Its pretty explicitly not a tragedy of the commons. Its a tragedy of the ruling class abusing the resources of the 'commons' to extract value. There is nothing 'commons' about trillion dollar companies extracting all available value from the labor of the working class. That's just the tragedy that'll bring around the death of society, the same tragedy that brings all other tragedys

The commons in question is the internet itself.

Thank you for describing the tragedy of the commons

The commons were never unregulated. This is a tragedy of enclosure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

We might get stuck discussing semantics. Large parts of the internet remain public and open; but an incredibly vast part of it is a toxic wasteland.

It’s true that many spaces people frequent are ‘enclosed’, but these are also less subject to the abuse taking place in the public and open areas.

There’s definitely lots of problems with the ruling class and wealth disparity. Perhaps the defining problems of our current age.

That being said, so many of the plebs suck. Like 2% will ruin everything for everyone.

While a lot of the plebs do suck, a pleb who sucks causes way less problems than a big corp that sucks simply by virtue of not having too much resources.

I agree.

But whether you agree with me or not, most paradigm shifting changes come from billionaires/corps because they are the only ones with the money to pull off massive shifts. Most innovation is not grassroots and heavily funded by the “elites”. This is how most successful countries have been for atleast the last 100 years. So billionaires add a lot of value even as they cause a lot of pain.

The solution in my mind is we absolutely need uncapped billionaires but they need to be effectively taxed (not like 90% but closer to 50%) and they have to have absolutely no influence on the government.

tragedy of the commons with your ideological buzzwords sprinkled in, truly innovative

> its citizens that act selfishly and in bad faith will slowly make it unusable

It's rarely been the citizens that have been the problem, but the governments and companies that seek the use the network connection for their overwhelming benefit.

wat. The protections in place that the OP is talking about are almost entirely due to (not government and company) bad actors.