• Saleh@feddit.org
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    24 hours ago

    Scarcity of what? Food, water, sanitary infrastructure, shelter, healthcare? Yeah that is bad.

    Scarcity of pretty rocks, some people want to wear as accessoires? Fine whatever. Also i wouldn’t mind the mining of scarce and pretty rocks, if it wouldn’t go with the destruction of the environment and human rights abuses.

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      23 hours ago

      Scarcity of anything is a bad idea. Shouldn’t we WANT to live in a land of plenty?

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        23 hours ago

        Well, if we had less oil, gas and coal it could make things a lot better with climate change.

        Abundance can also lead to wastefullness. But generally speaking it just doesn’t matter if pretty rocks are scarce or not, if they don’t have any value in fulfilling human needs.