The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have a Point
&gt; I would love it if my local library or community group had a couple of floating drills that were of the sort that a contractor might use – a beautifully made, well-maintained work of art that would easily replace fifty minimum viable drills in my neighborhood, digitally tracked for routine maintenance and to gather telemetry that could feed into the next product design iteration to make its successors even better.<p>He would love this if the drill he were to borrow was (more or less) in as good of shape as his own is now. But why would that be so? Do you want to ride around in a bus that has the odor and cleanliness of the worst car you&#x27;ve ever seen on those gross-out subreddits?<p>If book lending libraries don&#x27;t have to deal with this (and I concede that they mostly don&#x27;t have to), then it is down to the fact that the vast majority of people are semi-illiterate quarterwits who wouldn&#x27;t be caught near a book if they thought there were hundred dollar bills hidden between the pages.<p>It seems to me sometimes that the same people who have always used the &quot;tragedy of the commons&quot; as a counter-argument to any libertarianish comment I made are now turning around and wanting to force me to live that same tragedy of the commons. The pro-&quot;you&#x27;ll own nothing and like it&quot; aren&#x27;t very convincing to me, not even his &quot;neighborhood drill&quot; version. He&#x27;s playing good cop to their bad cop, but the grift&#x27;s still the same.