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Listening to music, I realised, was simply the pleasure of counting without realising you were counting.
Far more creativity, today, goes into the marketing of products than into the products themselves, athletic shoes or feature films.
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
Hardin was primarily interested in the problem of [human population growth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation). But in his essay, he also focused on the use of larger (though finite) resources such as the Earth's atmosphere and oceans, as well as pointing out the "negative commons" of pollution (i.e., instead of dealing with the deliberate privatization of a positive resource, a "negative commons" deals with the deliberate commonization of a negative cost, pollution).
Tragedy of the Commons
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