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An Abundance of Scarcity — Now and Forever
Issues and Insights ^ | 24 Apr, 2023 | Thomas Buckley

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 – ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Society
KEYWORDS: rationing

1 posted on 04/25/2023 7:22:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Make sure you don't anger the rationers.
2 posted on 04/25/2023 7:22:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

The very wealthy marxist tyrants forcing this on us will not lack anything.


3 posted on 04/25/2023 7:27:32 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: MtnClimber

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...


4 posted on 04/25/2023 7:32:19 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: MtnClimber

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....


5 posted on 04/25/2023 7:38:09 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: MtnClimber

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.


6 posted on 04/25/2023 7:41:56 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: MtnClimber

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.


7 posted on 04/25/2023 7:45:07 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: MtnClimber

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.


8 posted on 04/25/2023 7:48:04 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: MtnClimber

No, what the world is facing is an abundance of stupidity, especially among the elites in the West.

Stupidity causes scarcity.


9 posted on 04/25/2023 7:55:21 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: MtnClimber

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?


10 posted on 04/25/2023 7:58:53 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: ansel12

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.


11 posted on 04/25/2023 8:04:20 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

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.


12 posted on 04/25/2023 8:06:06 AM PDT by Kenny500c ( )
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To: ansel12

Human-use chlorine is made by an energy intensive process.

Energy has shot up in price.


13 posted on 04/25/2023 8:06:52 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Kenny500c

“drive up price”

drive up tax revenue


14 posted on 04/25/2023 8:08:46 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: ansel12

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.


15 posted on 04/25/2023 8:13:15 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: GSWarrior

“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.


16 posted on 04/25/2023 8:16:37 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

The tone reminds me of Mad Max:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max


17 posted on 04/25/2023 8:19:22 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Kenny500c

I stand corrected, this would be self-corrected in a true FMC economy. No profits, no production.


18 posted on 04/25/2023 8:40:00 AM PDT by Kenny500c ( )
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To: MtnClimber

As Professor Sowell has noted, scarcity is the basis for all economics.


19 posted on 04/25/2023 10:50:19 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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