"Although I realize that this isn't exactly the focus of your post, I can't get past the fact that you said that if scarcity didn't exist, "there would be no point in living". There are those who don't believe there is a "point" to life. We're just cells made of atoms on a rock going through space at 110,000km/h...nothing more nothing less- our life is meaningless. Although this may not be your belief, I’m sure that those who do believe there is a point of “living” don’t include scarcity on their list, even if it is a defining element of life.

Secondly, I fail to see how your post is making any sort of progress on the issue. We're all in economics classes, and quite far into the year, and your post is composed of basic realizations that most, if not all of us have already come to terms with.

It's hard to come to terms with the concept of Scarcity. Your discussion of it talks about it as if it's an external, tangible object. It's a fundamental defining part of human life (as well as all other life). In fact, it's the basis of our existence. Why else would humans be efficient or any other animal at that? What is the basis Darwinian theory- Scarcity! Survival of the fittest! Life is based upon scarcity. Scarcity does make us who we are; scarcity is what we are (so to say). You vastly underestimate the scarcity as a contributing factor to human life; it’s really a widespread, integral and fundamental part of existence. Yes, this argument is of a philosophical nature, but why should economics be confined to the staleness of a textbook? Economics is a social study, and social studies are made up of everything that is human, and thus, all topics are relevant. Think how interwoven scarcity is with every action.
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"I think as the scarcity of oil increases, people will become more aware of what a problem it is. Within in the past five years, more people are becoming aware of global warming, but until it directly affects our lives not many people will have an incentive to do anything. "