#scarcity

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#disregard #economics #enough #first #fully

Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats. ↗

— Brené Brown

#scarcity #society #stress #vulnerability #courage

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#living #love #make #make it happen #only

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess. ↗

— Will Oldham

#excess #more #rewarding #scarcity #than

Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce. ↗

— Brian C. O'Connor

#hunter-gathers #information #nature #scarcity #storing

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#most #opportunity #otherwise #plain #scarcity

It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#appears #buffalo #country #mr #penetrated

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. ↗

— John Berger

#before #century #imposed #natural #other

I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#change #consumes #content #copyright #dramatically

Money is a way of creating scarcity. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#money #scarcity #way