It’s a solution for the extortionist, and that’s who is experiencing free riding as a problem.
Threatening your housemates that you’ll replace them if they don’t pony up for painting or threatening jail if a resident doesn’t pay taxes could be done by bad actors (and IMO often is), but that’s only a difference in purpose, not in activity. Extortion is, by it’s very nature, incentive-compatible with collecting revenue: its only aim is to provide incentive for the freeloaders to pay.
It’s a solution for the extortionist, and that’s who is experiencing free riding as a problem.
Threatening your housemates that you’ll replace them if they don’t pony up for painting or threatening jail if a resident doesn’t pay taxes could be done by bad actors (and IMO often is), but that’s only a difference in purpose, not in activity. Extortion is, by it’s very nature, incentive-compatible with collecting revenue: its only aim is to provide incentive for the freeloaders to pay.