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scarcity

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Jerry Michalski’s TEDx talk, “What if we trusted you?”, makes a link between scarcity, abundance, and trust with the equation “scarcity equals abundance minus trust”.

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  • the hedonic treadmill

    …itself becomes. This served our ancestors well in conditions of [[scarcity]]: if hunter-gatherers came across a rare abundance of food…

  • Manufactured time scarcity

    …for the economy as a whole: it creates an **artificial [[scarcity]] of time** which is a primary driver of consumerism. If…