# kaal:claim:3808867-016

**Claim.** Microdemocratic systems must solve the tragedy of the commons, because without controls self interested voters acting independently of the totality of voters may deplete or spoil shared resources such as the environment and public goods.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- microdemocratic shared-resource systems
- absence of controls

**Source quote.**

> Without controls, some self-interested voters may be depleting or spoiling resources they share with the rest of society, such as the environment, public goods, among others.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI* (2021), III. Technological Microdemocracy, page 10

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867

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**Failure mode.** Tragedy of the commons in microdemocracy  (family: collective-action-and-coordination-failure)

**Topics.** institutional-design, governance-design

**Keywords.** microdemocracy, tragedy-of-the-commons, public-goods, voting-design

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3709041-020

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