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[–] journalistsarelazy 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Yes, I see this as a tragedy of the commons: "a term, to denote a situation where individuals acting independently and rationally according to each's self-interest behave contrary to the best interests of the whole group by depleting some common resource. The term is taken from the title of an article written by Hardin in 1968, which is in turn based upon an essay by a Victorian economist on the effects of unregulated grazing on common land."
Everyone fucking up by assuming everyone else will also fuck up. "Everyone else does it" commonly heard whilst doing it.