Time's Role in the Tragedy of the Commons
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A lab experiment with six students, €40 each, ten rounds and donation choices of 0/2/4 EUR tests time’s effect on cooperation: reaching a €120 threshold nets everyone +€45. Treatments delay that bonus by one day, seven weeks, or convert donations into tree planting that sequesters carbon for 80 years (framed as intergenerational benefit). With Manfred melinsky at the max plank Institute results show 7 of 10 groups hit the threshold at one day, 4 of 11 at seven weeks, and 0 of 11 for trees as group discounting cascades cooperation away.
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