This is why regulation before, not after, the commons are plundered, is important.
The windfall may not even justify the initial expenditure before it's exhausted.
Which is how it should have been from the get-go.
Unless you take a global census of every possible resource, as well as it’s replenishment rate, you can’t know how to rate limit it
All overconsumption is only recognized after the fact
It’s one of the most intractable problems in the universe
This is why regulation before, not after, the commons are plundered, is important.