https://drylab2023.net/2017/05/23/beloved-water/ Enacting the near future of water scarcity Thu, 25 May 2017 02:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://drylab2023.net/2017/05/23/beloved-water/#comment-43 Thu, 25 May 2017 02:00:35 +0000 http://drylab2023.net/?p=2022#comment-43 Got a lot of moral and ethical issues going on here. I was thinking as reading this, how easy it would be for someone to just sneak over and take a little extra water hoping that no one would notice and bamn, you say that you were day dreaming about drenching yourself with the hose. I guess everyone else was lucky that tower sprung a leak, lol. Real talk though, that is a serious issue with collective action problems, free-riding. Like in the prisoner’s dilemma, if everyone participates and lives up to their end of the bargain, no matter how much discomfort there is in the short-run, then all are better off in the long-run. However, the incentive in the short-run is not to participate and live up to one’s end of the bargain and for everyone to seek to benefit their self. Yet, if and when that occurs then all the people are made worse off. The violation of a collective action or communal problem is only beneficial to the free-riders if others live up to their end of the deal. I was happy to hear, that at least for this day, everyone was living up to their end of the bargain.

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