Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Tragedy of the commons

[Lyle Scheer (wonko]

Sharon Villines wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2007, at 7:36 PM, Kay Argyle wrote:
> 
>>> The areas in which we have avoided this is when a single person or a
>>> small group essentially makes a common facility their own. The
>>> facility is available for everyone to use but the individual person
>>> coordinates and largely makes the rules on how it will be used. This
>>> is done in a consensual manner but without that one person who exerts
>>> strong leadership and does a lot of work or gets other people to do a
>>> lot of work the facility declines.
>> Aren't you describing a benevolent dictatorship?
> 
> I think not because the person can be overruled at any point -- and  
> some people have been. People sort of cycle through jobs until  
> something sticks.

I guess that means it's a benevolent easily overthrown dictatorship, but
someone has to be dictator.

- Lyle