Humans literally evolved to live in small communities who had to share both resources among themselves and hunting/foraging ranges with other communities. For most of our species' time on Earth, the health of the community was the health of the individual. We literally evolved shame and embarrassment specifically to better understand when we were stepping on each other's toes, emotions you rarely see outside of dogs and other species in a similar position. The tragedy of the commons is entirely a money thing, where the individual can both siphon resources from other communities and hide how much resources they're actually sitting on. It is not fundamental to the human condition.
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