Isn't tragedy of the commons when you share something and it for example gets overused and destroyed in the process? Tragic referring to the part where everyone is trying to get the max out of it for them individually and causing the demise?

This is something else. And also it IS in everybody's best interest. I'd assume it's not the most fun activity to learn your feet in a mile, yards... And translating recipes is just madness. I imagine you need all sorts of little helpers, the measuring cups, smear butter everywhere to measure it by volume... and need to whip out a calculator if someone stays for dinner. I think it costs money and people are lazy and fail to see the bigger picture. Because they haven't tried thinking about this for 5 minutes and are already complaining. It's not that they wouldn't also benefit.

Disclaimer: I'm also not perfect and sometimes fail to see some bigger picture.