[Adlai]

My favorite perspective on this Tragedy analogizes the Commons in question to a cavern whose acoustics preserve any sound shouted within. We could allow more people to shout at once, but that would increase the number of echos, increasing the total amount of "signal" and effectively decreasing the SNR when all you're interested in is a single signal out of the whole cacophony. As the permitted transmission bandwidth rises, the complexity of making sense out of the received data increases at some sharper rate that I won't just pull from my ass.

The fundamental right that must be preserved - the action that must be kept accessible at minimum price to anybody wishing to perform it - is not that of adding data, but rather verifying and interpreting that which is already present. Shouting should be expensive, because you hurt every other eardrum.

[kang]

But that leaves out the poor, because there is no alternative to shouting.