The “tragedy of the commons” is not an inevitability — it’s a failure of design.
Elinor Ostrom proved that communities can sustainably manage shared resources through communication, boundaries, and fair rules.
Today, our commons are digital: energy, compute, data, and AI.
DAOs and Mutual AI offer ways to scale Ostrom’s logic - building a cooperative infrastructure for the post-labor world.
New essay:
https://mutualhorizons.manifoldclub.com/posts/the-design-of-the-commons