Transparency in relation to the common goods
There is this situation called “The tragedy of the commons”. The TL;DR is that the commons within a system are less taken care of than the individual possessions.
For a system to behave at its maximum capacity, you must enforce a framework around the commons. It usually takes various forms, with legal/regulatory ones being the most widely spread approaches.
However, we often seem to forget how much we can collectively achieve if there would be reliance on not-so-easily enforceable but mutually agreed views on the matter.
That being said, though not ethically required, the most effective policy is maximal transparency of intentions concerning the common goods.
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