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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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