Ostrom described how commons can be wisely managed, over very long timescales, by communities that self-governed. Part of her work concerns how users of a commons must have the ability to exclude bad actors from their shared resources.
When that breaks down, commons *can* fail - because there's always someone who thinks it's fine to shit in the well rather than walk 100 yards to the outhouse.
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