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An Oversupply of NFTs Is Going to Kill the Golden Goose

Welcome to the new tragedy of the commons

James Surowiecki
Marker
Published in
6 min readMar 30, 2021

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Illustration: Julia Moburg/Medium; source: Getty Images

In the 1950s, the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland was, as it had been for centuries, one of the richest fisheries in the world, home to a massive and endlessly replenished population of cod. The fishery provided food for people across North…

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James Surowiecki
Marker
Writer for

I’m the author of The Wisdom of Crowds. I’ve been a business columnist for Slate and The New Yorker and written for a wide range of other publications.