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tragedy of the commons

trag·e·dy of the com·mons


noun 
Definition:
 
undesired result of exploitation of others: a phenomenon in which individuals attempt to exploit the resources of a group, but only harm themselves because everyone adopts the same strategy and resources are uniformly depleted

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