The source of this asymmetry is also to be found in economics. The two generally agreed facts set forth above - unacceptable mortality and unequitable income distribution - are both symptoms of the same economic problem: the failure of resource managers to capture the intrinsic value of the resource, i.e., the failure of producers to capture rents. This results in the producers receiving a very small proportion of the value of a highly valued resource. When this occurs, there is little reason for the resource manager to take the amount of care of the resource that the ultimate consumers would like to see. From the consumer societies' perspective, what results is highly wasteful management of the resource