Ocupation: Reporter
Life: b. March 6, 1947
Birthday: March 6
If individuals can take from a common pot regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to be a free rider, to do as little as possible and take as much as possible because what one fails to take will be taken by someone else.
source: John Stossel (2012). “No, They Can't: Why Government Fails-But Individuals Succeed”, p.55, Simon and Schuster
topic: Taken, Incentives, Littles