The Arms Race and the Tragedy of the Commons

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If we don't over fish that area, virgin ocean, ah, but we can't control that someone else doesn't. How do you do do enforcement on nuclear countries? That's a tricky thing. So us not doing it doesn't mean that the fish don't all get taken. It just means that they grow their populations and their g d p faster which they will use rivalrously. In fact, we might as well race to do it faster than they do. Those are the tragedy of the commons type issues. But there's some other generator functions i think we should outline.

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