Upvoted, but not sure it's a tragedy. Much like that quote about democracy, it's a bad system, except the others are worse. Would be nice to have something better tho.
I think we need more experimentation with solutions to the (open-source) public goods problem before we can say that the others are worse. Ditto with experimentation on variants of democracy. Significantly harder to experiment with that than with open source funding though.
I don't really get the democracy comment.