@strypey

Definitely know the feeling.

Only one of the different tragedies of co-living.

With all the upsides that co-living and shared houses/appartments/flats or even bigger communities have, they also usually come with several downsides.

With every single resource that's being shared and simply split evenly across the number of people, that means there's yet another weakened #negativeFeedback element in the mental system.

Let's say you're a really frugal person and very cautious with your consumption .. and you share waste, electricity, heating, hot/cold water with two others .. all your individual efforts to conserve these resources only earn you 33 % of your actual effort. The other 66 % goes to the other two (assuming they're less diligent). And the other way round, one of the other two person's lavish behavior only costs them 33 % more and 66 % get paid by you and the other one.

Not really strong incentives to be mindful about consumption.

I live with a guy who uses so much warm water for showering and dish washing that even though I never use warm water for the dishes and currently I always shower with cold water (nicely refreshing :D ~12 °C), our combined consumption is that of a small family.

I really see this as a big problem of our time: everybody impacts the whole world with their behavior but only feels a fraction of the (mostly negative) feedback.

Talking about it could *maybe* help, but it's surely everything but fun for everyone.

Ideally all appliances should have meters on them right next to the controls, that constantly show consumption and maybe even calculate the energy consumption or the price.