Posted on 04/25/2023 7:22:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber
With abundance, anything is possible; with scarcity nothing is certain.
And what the world is facing right now is an abundance of scarcity.
From climate change edicts to purposefully limiting housing supplies to cordoning off the public square from the free exchange of ideas to food shortages and/or diet modifications to the limiting of energy availability to personal health strictures and to the very ability to make the best choices for oneself, the currently fashionable scarcity makes one thing abundantly clear: global society is becoming more confined, more caged in, more restricted.
And that’s the point. And what the world is seeing now – in real time and at warp speed – is an intentional modification of what it means to be a discrete individual in a larger society.
bundance is the opposite of scarcity and it comes not only with comfort and a sense of certainty and well-being, but also with the ability to take risks, to make choices, to try – or think – something new in the knowledge that one’s basic, core needs are being met.
To use a poker analogy, if you’re up for the night you can take a flyer on the chance of getting that inside straight and really cashing in and if your card doesn’t come up it’s no big deal.
In other words, abundance allows for choices, for risk, for innovation, for the rise of the new.
Scarcity does not.
Those in a constant state of anxiety about being able to meet their basic needs are simply not capable of taking such risks for fear of losing whatever they happen to have left, therefore limiting their options to “sure things.” – https://thomas699.substack.com/p/the-political-advantages-of-nervous
Like an addict, they obsess over their next fix, to fulfill their most compelling need and cannot look beyond to a future that could involve other options. And when that need is met they are happy and grateful and calm…until, and only until, the next time.
Mere survival becomes the point of day-to-day life and one will never challenge those people and organizations that just barely keep you from falling over the edge; in fact, you become grateful, you become compliant, you never wonder, and you become willing to imprison yourself to ensure your continued existence.
Hence the impossibility of the idea being touted by the World Economic Forum and its masterclass minions – ...
The very wealthy marxist tyrants forcing this on us will not lack anything.
At some point, it reaches a climax and a revolt occurs...It always has through history and will again, but who knows when that point will be reached...
Yep
I need body parts for 20-year-old car
Looks like I’ll be going aftermarket and they have a lot of supply issues too (which compounded the problem)
Thanks, Fauci
(There are still some junkyard possibilities)
sigh - don’t worry folks - I’m working the problem....
It is amazing how many food items have almost entirely left the market or have left it, they will be back, but when.
Nalley’s canned chili and Dennison’s are both around but far too expensive and rare, Hormel Tamales are plentiful but not the spicy version, the five-pound bag of grits isn’t $2.78 anymore but $21.00, 1” chlorine tablets are off the charts price wise when available, $70.00 instead of $9.99.
We are in the midst of a pandemic called “affluenza”.
It’s the disease that causes people to not appreciate how well they have it and where it comes from.
It’s the same old oligarchical strategy:
16 tons and what do get?
Another day older and deeper in debt...
The trick is to not get stuck in some company town.
No, what the world is facing is an abundance of stupidity, especially among the elites in the West.
Stupidity causes scarcity.
How do they plan to deal with the folks who want to buy their own driverless car, not check one out at the local motor pool?
I went to Aldi’s to buy powdered grape drink packages.
They were not in their usual place, but more expensive products were.
I found the powdered grape drink packages in the temporary food product aisle and bought their entire inventory of 10.
Walmart no longer carries their cheap powdered drink packages. A few years back they were 12 cents each, enough for two quarts. Now packages at that price level are sold for just one glass.
Paradoxically free market capitalism results in overproduction.
Since the GD of the 1930’s all gummint action seeks to curb output, and drive up price. There has to be a better way.
Human-use chlorine is made by an energy intensive process.
Energy has shot up in price.
“drive up price”
drive up tax revenue
Most Walmarts in my area have cut back on plants.
The one Walmart I visited with a large selection had thousands of dollars in plant losses because the store didn’t have a $15/hour person spend time watering the inventory.
With $15/hour labor, Walmart is typically only stocking once per day. Many items are not restocked daily.
“How do they plan to deal with the folks who want to buy their own driverless car, not check one out at the local motor pool?”
The all-electric bus will be along in about an hour, comrade.
I stand corrected, this would be self-corrected in a true FMC economy. No profits, no production.
As Professor Sowell has noted, scarcity is the basis for all economics.
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