“How do we allocate scarcity?” is a question which receives many cycles because it is classic bikeshedding; easy to have an opinion on.
“How do we eliminate scarcity?” gets far less work because it’s the annoyingly difficult building of the nuclear power plant behind bikeshed.
“How do we eliminate scarcity?” gets far less work because it’s the annoyingly difficult building of the nuclear power plant behind bikeshed.
Scarcity in general is a fact of the human condition but scarcity at the margin *is often a choice.*
(In case not obvious from my recent professional interests, I’m primarily thinking of covid-19 vaccine doses at the moment.)
Example of scarcity being a choice: marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
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