Abundance and Scarcity

Most systems (political, economic etc) exist to manage scarcity. Organizations either create or manage the distribution of resources.

There are 2 types of resources:

  1. Tangible resources: what usually comes to mind - capital, money, infrastructure, natural resources
  2. Intangible resources: human dynamics. E.g, trust, power, relationships
  • The allocation of tangible resources depends on the allocation of intangible resources
  • Interventions restore abundance to the system

Examples

  1. Abundance was present first in the book of Genesis. The serpent introduced introduced the idea of there being fruit that isn’t available (scarcity). This now introduces choice which is powerful in abundance, but ugly in scarcity.
  2. The human body
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