Opinion | What if Humans Just Can’t Get Along Anymore?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/opinion/technology-internet-cooperation.html
The population bomb never went off. The world’s birthrate declined as the poorest people were lifted out of poverty. And as the pioneering political economist Elinor Ostrom showed over a lifetime of research, there are countless examples of people coming together to create rules and institutions to manage common resources. People aren’t profit-maximizing automatons; time and again, she found, we can make individual sacrifices in the interest of collective good.