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

> 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.

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> Not on topic, but wow the internet has very quickly devolved into: click -> "making sure you're not a bot", click -> "making sure you're a human", click -> "COOKIES COOKIES COOKIES", click -> "cloudflare something something"

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