Journal topic #17: Tragedy of the Commons Experiment

The fishing game was indeed very fun~ In our group, we were more like communists, who were trying to build up an equal society by sharing same amount of resources; therefore, each one of us takes only one chocolate from each round in order to maximize amount of fish at the end of each round. At the end, each though we first reached consensus that we were going to share equal amount of chocolate together , people were just trying to get as many chocolate as possible at the last round, because they knew that was only time they could maximize their profit respectively. Sacrificing was necessary in this fishing game, as I mentioned earlier; as a result of we will eventually get abundant chocolate if each one of us only got one on each round. Regardless of fishing skill, we were looking forwards that we might eventually maximize benefits not only for ourselves but also for others, which was similar to the concept we were discussing about on Journal #16. Nowadays, looking at the scenario happened in our group, we can see even though we have understanding on the concept of we should not only make the best for ourselves but also for others in order to maximize our profits, some people still think irrationally in order to earn profit immediately... An example of local common will be student library, where offers comfortable tables and chairs for those students who are preparing for exams; however, the number of chairs and tables are limited; therefore, students need to set their studying time in order to let other students have opportunity to use those materials, too. Examples of renewable natural resource can be sunlight, and air. And example of global common will be outer space, because there's no territory being claimed in this area, and any countries, who are capable, can explore to outer space. In conclusion, like we talked about in Journal#16, in order to maximize the profit, we, as individual, have to make the best for not only ourselves but also other people~