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Glatt,
You describe a 'tragedy of the commons'.
Consider: a new colony located at the base of a forest covered mountain. There is no formal governmrnt and each colonist is a self-directing type.
Immediately folks get to claiming property left and right. Of course there'll be skirmishes and jumped claims and bloodshed, but once the dust settles there won't be a 'commons'.
The self-regulation of such an arrangement, I think, is superior to regulation from the outside (or 'above').
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