Tragedy Of The Commons
Dec. 15th, 2010 01:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
funraniumA shared space is everyone's responsibility. When something goes wrong, it is thus everyone else's potential fault, but obviously not yours. When everyone takes this attitude, it is no one's fault because everyone can prove, with plausible deniability, that it wasn't them. Therefor, the person who the space actually belongs to gets stuck with all the problems because they've got the real estate in their name.
This is how you get Superfund sites.
Today was spent keeping the landlord of one of these shared spaces from falling into the Black Hole of No Responsibility. I happily appropriated a new metaphor for him to operate his laboratory with: Pack It In, Pack It Out...Leave Only Data. No chemicals or rad material are allowed to reside unattended in this lab anymore. If it isn't in your hand walking in or out the door, it better be on a machine.
This is how you get Superfund sites.
Today was spent keeping the landlord of one of these shared spaces from falling into the Black Hole of No Responsibility. I happily appropriated a new metaphor for him to operate his laboratory with: Pack It In, Pack It Out...Leave Only Data. No chemicals or rad material are allowed to reside unattended in this lab anymore. If it isn't in your hand walking in or out the door, it better be on a machine.
