Scarcity

Scarcity is defined as a relationship one feels about their needs.

For instance, shelter is unnecessary if you have a warm bed to sleep on at night.

But what if the problem is that we have grown an insatiable appetite for more?

It isn’t enough to have a warm bed; now, it must be in a two-story, 5,000-plus-square-foot house overlooking the beach.

The easiest way to begin to unwind this narrative of feeling deficient is to check our list of needs.

When we look around with what we have, it is clear that someone from just 200 years ago (never mind the Pharaohs of old), we have plenty.

Not everyone, of course. But most of us with laptops and internet connections can probably point to enough.

Markets rely on scarcity as the driving force. What would happen if the winds were to change and people realized I had enough?