Back when I was getting my econ degree, we were taught about the Ultimatum game, which goes like this: You get two participants who don't know each other and will (ostensibly) never see each other again. You give one of them $100, and they make an offer of some portion of it to the other. If the other accepts, both parties keep their portion - so, if A offers B $20, and B accepts, A keeps $80 and B keeps $20, if B rejects, both parties get nothing. Standard economic theory suggests A can offer $1 and B will accept, because otherwise B gets nothing. Spoiler for those of you who haven't seen how standard economic theory plays out in real life, that's not how the game went - typically, offers below ~$30 or so got rejected, because B was a real feeling person who felt like they were getting screwed and opted to punish A for doing so. The exception to this - the people who would take the $1 offer - were people who had been taught economic theory. It turns out you _could_ screw them over and they'd pat themselves on the backs for being very wise.
The "tragedy of the commons" is another one of those parts of standard economic theory that never actually played out in reality - we've got examples from all over the world of communities implementing practices and often entire belief systems that led them to be responsible stewards of shared resources without requiring unilateral ownership of that resource and singular acquisition of the benefits of that stewardship, and yet first on the lips of every modern capitalist when describing why they're at a disadvantage if they're not the ones polluting the water supply is the tragedy of the commons.
The "tragedy of the commons" is another one of those parts of standard economic theory that never actually played out in reality - we've got examples from all over the world of communities implementing practices and often entire belief systems that led them to be responsible stewards of shared resources without requiring unilateral ownership of that resource and singular acquisition of the benefits of that stewardship, and yet first on the lips of every modern capitalist when describing why they're at a disadvantage if they're not the ones polluting the water supply is the tragedy of the commons.