Topic 17: Tragedy of the Commons Experiment

        In the experiment about the tragedy of commons, there are a lot of thing is going on. In our group, we didn’t really take too many fish, since we don’t want to waste the fish, but also because it is actually really hard to pick it up. In the first experiment, we all think that during the first few rounds to pick only the fish that can fill up our stomach, and in the last round to pick up as many fish as we can. I think probably because we all think that during is the last round, we will have to get all of them to maximize the goods we can have. However, we didn’t actually think carefully. When people are trying to get as many fish as they can, the resources will later be lesser and lesser and eventually gone. After we get the concept, we start our second round. Our entire group starts to only get the least amount of fish for us to survive and let the fish double as much as we can. Unfortunately, in the middle of the experiment, we didn’t listen carefully about when was the fishing season started, which then results that we all starve to death since we didn’t caught any fish. I think in our school there’s actually this kind of problem in our school cafeteria. When there’s a pretty good food in the cafeteria, people will not want to keep them for later to eat. Instead, they will get as many as they want in order to not let other people to enjoy it. Sooner, it results that people can’t get the food they want to eat, which is a pretty terrible tragedy.