Editing Ownership (section)

====Sharing use====
The owning entity makes rules governing use of property; each property may comprise areas that are made available to any and every member of the group to use. When the group is the entire nation, the same principle is in effect whether the property is small (e.g. [[picnic]] rest stops along [[highway]]s) or large (such as [[national parks]], highways, ports, and publicly owned buildings). Smaller examples of shared use include common areas such as lobbies, entrance [[hallway]]s and passages to adjacent buildings.

One disadvantage of communal ownership, known as the [[Tragedy of the Commons]], occurs where unlimited unrestricted and unregulated access to a resource (e.g. pasture land) destroys the resource because of [[over-exploitation]]. The benefits of exploitation accrue to individuals immediately, while the costs of policing or enforcing appropriate use, and the losses dues to over exploitation, are distributed among many, and are only visible to these gradually.

In a [[communist]] nation, the means of production of goods would be owned communally by all people of that nation; the original thinkers did not specify rules and regulations.