Around 1960’s Garett Hardin specifically used the same phrase to describe the problem of free-rider in public goods. He has nothing to do with the rest of this article. The title just seemed to have attracted my current mental state. So econ majors, I am not going into the lengthy details of the herd story and try to go around in circles with the hope of convincing you through my lame arguments. If you put economists in one room, they may not be even agree on a single thing , so I won’t even try.
I would’ve want this column to be named high blood because I am precisely at that state but I have not reached that age when it is fashionable for me to mull over the atrocities of daily existence with such relaxed musings, resigned expression, tamed activism topped with we-can’t-help-it shrugs and deep exhales. I am at an age where signing up for friendster is still reasonably tolerable (even with studio-shot photos complete with silly hats) but at that point where forwarded if-you-don’t-email-this-you-die chain letters would go directly to email trash bins without having been slightly pillaged. In short, I just turned 26. Never mind the connection.
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