divvy up something, tragedy of the commons, overpopulated, overconcentration

Time to do something about overpopulated Tokyo

The COVID-19 crisis should prompt renewed action to address the overconcentration of people and business in the Tokyo metropolitan area.

Getting users to play a game to divy up resources can keep a computing "tragedy of the commons" from happening.



While others wrote gloomily of the tragedy of the commons, seeing only overfishing and overfarming in a free-for-all of greed, Mrs Ostrom, with her loud laugh and louder tops, cut a cheery and contrarian figure.




The tragedy of the commons is a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users, acting independently according to their own self-interest, behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling the shared resource through their collective action.

divvy up something

— phrasal verb with divvy verb

infml

US/ˈdɪv·i ˈʌp/

to divide something into parts or shares:

They finally decided how to divvy up the money.