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

[Kay Argyle (kay.argyle]

> 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?

Whatever one calls it, it matches our experience with maintaining common
facilities also.

Kay