Quotes About Scarcity

Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

The world as a whole has never been richer, and it has never been more heavily in debt, living off borrowed money. The record shows that, for society, the richer we become, the harder it get to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

A história mostra que, para a sociedade, quanto mais ricos nos tornamos, mais difícil é viver dentro de nossas próprias posses. Temos mais dificuldade em lidar com a abundância do que com a escassez.

The record shows that, for society, the richer we become, the harder it gets to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

wealth is seen as zero-sum.

I said that taking a "scalable" profession is not a good idea, simply because there are far too few winners in these professions.

the richer we become, the harder it gets to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

Today, a few take almost everything; the rest, next to nothing.

Everyone's going to remember where they were when the taps went dry, I think. Like when a president is assassinated.

I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread

Money is like sex,' I said. 'It seems much more important when you don't have any...' 'You talk like a writer,' said Francois.

Money is like sex," I said. "It seems much more important when you don't have any…

Far too often, we have been told that the future will be wracked by crises of energy scarcity, when the problems our children will face will be due to its abundance.

Now, these were hungry people who were very interested in acquiring protein. The simplest explanation for the lack of passenger pigeon bones is a lack of passenger pigeons. Prior to 1492, this was a rare species.

But our tendency to give scarcity more attention than abundance has caused us to ignore the many examples of abundance that have arisen in our own lifetime, like corn, for starters. The problem is that once something becomes abundant, we tend to ignore it

In Fritz Lang's Metropolis, society is divided into two groups: one of planners and thinkers living in luxury high above the Earth, and another of workers, dwelling and toiling underground to run the machine that sustains the wealthy. The film is about the workers' revolt, but the broader point is clear. Abundance comes at a cost: scarcity elsewhere.

Ése era el mundo de la escasez. Ahora, con la distribución y la venta digital, estamos entrando en un mundo de abundancia. Las diferencias son profundas.

The way to compete with free is to move past the abundance to find the adjacent scarcity.

9. free makes other things more valuable.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.

los precios coordinan el uso de los recursos de tal manera que cada recurso se emplea tan sólo en la cantidad que es igual en valor a lo que vale para otros en usos distintos.

People who want special taxes or subsidies for particular things seem not to understand that what they are really asking for is for prices to misstate the relative scarcities of things and the relative values that the users of these things put on them. . . Making anything artificially cheap usually means that it will be wasted.

Capital tends to be scarcer and therefore more expensive in poor countries, while labor tends to be more abundant and therefore cheaper. Poor countries tend to save on the most expensive factor, in the same way that rich countries save on a different factor that is more expensive and scarce there, namely labor. In rich countries, it is capital that is more abundant and cheaper, while labor is scarcer and more expensive.