Quotes About Scarcity

People with a Scarcity Mentality have a very difficult time sharing recognition and credit, power or profit—even with those who help in the production. They also have a very hard time being genuinely happy for the successes of other people—even, and sometimes especially, members of their own family or close friends and associates.

No entanto, quando se prende um fornecedor, cria-se uma situação de escassez que, inevitavelmente, impulsiona os preços para cima, o que atrai ainda mais fornecedores para o mercado. A guerra contra drogas movida pelos Estados Unidos tem sido relativamente ineficaz exatamente por concentrar-se nos vendedores, não nos compradores.

As Lawrence Lessig has so persuasively argued over the years, there is nothing "natural" about the artificial scarcity of intellectual property law.

Adam Smith called it the paradox of value: when an important good becomes plentiful, it costs far less than what people are willing to pay for it. The difference is called consumer surplus, and the explosion of this surplus over time is impossible to tabulate.

The first is the decline of communism (together with intrusive socialism). For reasons we have seen, market economies can generate wealth prodigiously while totalitarian planned economies impose scarcity, stagnation, and often famine.

Norberg, drawing on Braudel, offers vignettes of this era of misery, when the definition of poverty was simple: "if you could afford to buy bread to survive another day, you were not poor.

For reasons we have seen, market economies can generate wealth prodigiously while totalitarian planned economies impose scarcity, stagnation, and often famine.

Poverty, too, needs no explanation. In a world governed by entropy and evolution, it is the default state of humankind.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.

Nos costó mucho entender que frustrando un placer particular se podía obtener un provecho, ya que algo así se opone frontalmente a nuestros instintos animales más fundamentales, que exigen una satisfacción inmediata, sobre todo en los inevitables períodos de carestía.

The flame of sun which will come out just now for a blinding minute into your eyes is saving nothing, no one, take your communion, your blood is full of barren fields, they are the future in you you should learn to feel and love: there will be no more: no more: not enough to go around: no more around: no more: love that.

In the disturbances caused by scarcity of food, the mob goes in search of bread, and the means it employs is generally to wreck the bakeries. This may serve as a symbol of the attitude adopted, on a greater and more complicated scale, by the masses of today towards the civilization by which they are supported … Civilization is not "just here," it is not self-supporting.

La rebelión sentimental de las masas, el odio a los mejores, la escasez de éstos: he ahí la razón verdadera del gran fracaso hispánico

El mundo es jaula de locos, los más locos gozan más; mas son pocos.

By a closed economic system is meant the idea that the world's energy supply, upon which the financial system of the banksters is based, is founded upon non-renewable energy sources such as oil, natural gas, and so on. Hence, the system is closed since the whole premise of the system is scarcity and nonrenewability.

My Clan is hungry. Our kits cry because their mothers have no milk. The elders are dying for lack of decent prey.

They're all short on prey, and it sounds as if things are getting worse. I wish there were something I could do to help.

You've hardly left me anything to rest on." Larksong purred. "You've got plenty of padding to keep you comfortable till then.

It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. we've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty and disease are widespread.

Time is the least thing we have of.

Capitalism is the same everywhere. In order to survive and prosper it needs a permanent situation of partial scarcity: it needs it to maintain its prices and to create hungry masses to work under any conditions.

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

I produce so little that the works have to be editioned. Otherwise, I don't survive. Also, editioning is relevant for communication. If you make three new works, it means that nine objects are available. Three people talking about your work is fine, but nine makes a difference.