Talk:Scarcity

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The two-paragraph (at time of this writing) "Criticisms" section contains weasel words and asserts opinion (notably, "We should be careful here not to confuse wants and needs."). Perhaps someone can provide cites and adjust the language to reflect a NPOV? (I'm not the right guy to do it for this content.) Bionictulip 01:38, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I can see that there are problems with that section, in-fact I'm not quite sure what it's even talking about or what point is trying to be expressed. I think a better way to have a criticism section would be to talk about Post scarcity/Abundance ideas (possibly mentioning Artificial scarcity). For now I've gotten rid of that sentence you're talking about, by reverting it to an earlier more encyclopaedic sentence, and added a bit to make it more NPOV. It should probably be stated who is criticizing scarcity, namely people or groups advocating post scarcity, such as the Technocratic movement. --Hibernian 05:19, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

There weren't any "weasel words" or assertion of opinion. Merely pointing out the fact that wants and needs are not the same. While there may not be enough to satisfy everyone's wants, there might still be enough to satisfy their needs. There might also be enough to satisfy their wants if their wants are not artificially inflated by things like advertising and peer pressure. If you can refute any of the information presented, by all means do so. Otherwise, don't accuse them of using "weasel words" when you don't know what you're talking about. Thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.80.32.134 (talk) 20:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC).

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Concept and misconception of scarcity in economics.

This appears to be a short (10 KB, 1489 word) copyrighted essay entitled "The Misconception of Scarcity" by Shmuel (Sam) Vaknin, Ph.D., which 62.162.201.35 (talk) attempted to add to the article in this edit. Let us discuss what (if anything) from that essay can help this article. — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 01:51, 9 April 2007 (UTC)