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The document describes a scenario where a large meadow is used as common grazing land for cows. It shows that as more herders add cows, the total milk production increases up to a point, but then declines as too many cows degrade the quality of the pasture land. Each individual herder has an incentive to add more cows to increase their own production, but in doing so they ignore how it affects others who share the commons. This leads to overuse of the commonly held resource and reduced overall productivity.

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