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It's nice if you have kids in a no-tv house and want to allow them to experience retro-gaming while being able to control what is played, and how. Scarcity has it virtues, too.
>Scarcity has it virtues, too. I would even wager to say; Without it, we're doomed.
Another example is within engineering with scarce inputs. The result is often much more ingenious than when the inventor or engineer has no limitations whatsoever.
Trying to figure out what to read or what to watch when everything in the knoen universe is at your fingertips, is another challenge where scarcity helps. I do like where we have ended up, regarding this though :).
And so on...