What are there some things that are kept artificially scarce?

Most components of a typical "western" life style are kept artificially scarce. Artificial scarcity is an essential ingredient in a capitalistic corporatized society. Buy low, sell high. One of the drivers is the concept of a "return". I.e. whatever you do, whatever energy you invest in anything, you need to get back more. read more

Most components of a typical "western" life style are kept artificially scarce. Artificial scarcity is an essential ingredient in a capitalistic corporatized society. Buy low, sell high. One of the drivers is the concept of a "return". I.e. whatever you do, whatever energy you invest in anything, you need to get back more. read more

Resources that are commonly accepted as being scarce throughout the world include water, food and forests. Oil and natural gas are also growing increasingly scarce. To an extent, however, resource scarcity is contextually subjective. read more