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

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

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.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing,Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org