Why am I not a socialist? There’s the answer, right there, in the bathroom of Joshua Tree National Park.
Do you see it, on the left? Here, I’ll zoom in a little more for you.
Locks on the toilet paper rolls. That’s the tragedy of the commons. We need to build systems for people the way they are, not the way we would like them to be. We can change our culture, education, and institutions, but we cannot change our DNA. (If we start CRISPRing our babies I may have to revise this post.)