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

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Sep 27, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Sharon Villines wrote:

> Sociocracy encourages self-optimizing teams and individuals that are
> responsible for their own development.

I forgot to answer the original question which was whether people at  
a conference could use consensus decision making in a game knowing it  
was a game. They could if there were rewards for reaching consensus.  
In other words, if everyone benefited from the outcome. Nash's  
statement was, I believe, that cooperation only exists in a  
competitive environment -- you have to have something to gain.  
Otherwise there is no reason to bother.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Sociocracy, a Deeper Democracy
http://www.sociocracy.info