This week we asked ourselves what is a tragedy. Instinctively I thought of the stories of "Romeo and Juliet" and "Hamlet" but I learned it has other applications. Such as in the sense of economics. With the tragedy of the commons. I spent most of my time reading that wiki page because I felt like it was the most interesting. It basically preached how if you let people regulate a common good with only their conscious the resource will eventually be depleted. Then their was an example of a man who applied this theory to the idea that welfare created a sort of unhealthy belief that people could leech off the work of others while not contributing back to society. Which I guess can sort of be true in some cases but not all. Seeing as most of the time welfare does serve its purpose and be the social security net that is needed to keep people from living in awful conditions for long periods of time. Little bit of a side track but the story serves as another way to describe the idea of a tragedy by showing that things like basic economics can be an example of a tragedy.
On Friday we also talked about the Dakota Access Pipeline and the protesters. Personally I did not have too much of an opinion on the pipeline because it is very rare for one of the many pipelines to leak. So I felt like the concern about it was mostly unwarranted until Luco showed us this article that held the reason that the first proposed pipeline was rejected. Since the pipeline had run near the capital's water supply for the same reason that the Standing Rock tribe do not want the pipeline. Basically saying that the people of Bismarck are more important that the Standing Rock tribe.
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