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Re:U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than in... by dragonwriter on Saturday October 30, 2021 @01:05PM (#29050350)
> For some reason, when we try to figure how to manage abundant resources, only solutions we come up with are to make them artificially scarce.

If resources truly do not have scarcity, there is no need to manage them. The need to manage a resource comes about only when it is scarce.

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Re:U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than in... by carapace on Saturday October 30, 2021 @01:42PM (#29050716)
This strikes me as diluting the point to irrelevance. The vast majority of resources are abundant only provisionally when they are well-managed.

In fact, I can't think of any resources so abundant that they need no management. Even the oceans and the sky must be managed now, eh?

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Re:U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than in... by ric2b on Monday November 08, 2021 @03:30AM (#29147189)
> In fact, I can't think of any resources so abundant that they need no management.

Digital data.

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Re:U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than in... by carapace on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @11:10AM (#29242201)
Ah, good point.
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Re:U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than in... by dragonwriter on Saturday October 30, 2021 @02:29PM (#29051151)
> The vast majority of resources are abundant only provisionally when they are well-managed.

That's not abundance at all, its just scarcity.

> In fact, I can't think of any resources so abundant that they need no management.

Yes, scarcity is universal, which is why the idea of “post-scarcity” or resources that need managed in a categorically different way because they don't experience scarcity are nonsense.

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