This sounds less like a debunking or disproving and more like defining further conditions and ways to avoid it happening.
They key thing that caught my attention was that potential ToC scenarios were averted by a community realizing the potential for it and agreeing to rules with accountability built in that govern the resource at risk.
The lesson I think is that the ToC’s judgement of humans as just naturally destructive is false, but that what keeps humans from being destructive out of carelessness is systems of rules which naturally remind people to act with care.
Key example, libraries, ToC says they’d fail due to everyone stealing the books, but because there’s a rule system that has in built accountability, the only people who even try to are mostly considered to be “too clever for their own good by half.” thinking they can beat the system that literally knows they were the last one to have the book they haven’t gotten back yet.
This sounds less like a debunking or disproving and more like defining further conditions and ways to avoid it happening.
They key thing that caught my attention was that potential ToC scenarios were averted by a community realizing the potential for it and agreeing to rules with accountability built in that govern the resource at risk.
The lesson I think is that the ToC’s judgement of humans as just naturally destructive is false, but that what keeps humans from being destructive out of carelessness is systems of rules which naturally remind people to act with care.
Key example, libraries, ToC says they’d fail due to everyone stealing the books, but because there’s a rule system that has in built accountability, the only people who even try to are mostly considered to be “too clever for their own good by half.” thinking they can beat the system that literally knows they were the last one to have the book they haven’t gotten back yet.