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    Superior stewardship claims rest on empirical comparisons... — Carmelics
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    Superior stewardship claims rest on empirical comparisons that disregard well-documented cases of successful commons governance, as Ostrom's work establishes.

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    • 1.Ostrom documented numerous cases where communities successfully managed shared resources without privatization or state control.
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    • 2.Claims of superior stewardship often cite only failures of commons while ignoring comparable failures in private and state management.
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    • 3.Selective use of evidence to support a predetermined conclusion about governance superiority constitutes a systematic empirical bias.
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    • 1.Ostrom's case studies represent survivorship bias—successful commons are visible while most historical commons collapsed, leaving no record.
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    • 2.Demonstrating some successful commons doesn't refute that stewardship claims rest on averages and scale; small communities differ fundamentally.
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    • 3.The claim conflates empirical selectivity with empirical invalidity; even biased analysis can identify real patterns in aggregate data.
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