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I wonder if you're using the term as a poetic device, but as far as I know that's not what Tragedy of the Commons means.

Commons are properties without private owners. The tragedy is that because no one individual owns it, the people that use it use it without care to its maintenance believing that it is not their responsibility.



This is still sort of the same thing. The blame can't be pinned on one single entity because it is so common.




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