{"id":7109,"date":"2014-07-30T17:44:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T22:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=7109"},"modified":"2014-08-11T18:32:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T23:32:19","slug":"economy-scarcity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2014\/07\/30\/economy-scarcity\/","title":{"rendered":"An Economy of Scarcity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paulnich\/5147197277\/sizes\/z\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PrintingMoney.png\" alt=\"photocredit: Paul Nicholson\" width=\"640\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PrintingMoney.png 640w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PrintingMoney-300x116.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Economic theory is based on the assumption of scarcity &#8211; why is that? Aren\u2019t we, collectively, always creating and printing more money? It&#8217;s not a limited resource, so why do we use it like it is?<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t run out of it. It&#8217;s not clean water. Or pandas. We make it, and we can always make more of it. So why should we believe and act like it&#8217;s going to run out?<\/p>\n<p>I make a conscious choice to live in a world of abundance, not scarcity. And that includes money.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/paywhatitsworth.com\" title=\"Pay What It's Worth\" target=\"_blank\">Paying What It&#8217;s Worth<\/a> for the value you receive, you shift the traditional supply curve (based on scarcity) to one based on abundance. In not setting prices, you remove the false ceiling that&#8217;s been placed on your value, maximizing your return potential, and removing any self-imposed limits to it.<\/p>\n<p>So why not forget that economy of scarcity story? Its plot is full of holes.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paulnich\/5147197277\/ \" title=\"photo credit Paul Nicholson\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Nicholson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic theory is based on the assumption of scarcity &#8211; why is that? Aren\u2019t we, collectively, always creating and printing more money? It&#8217;s not a limited resource, so why do we use it like it is? We can&#8217;t run out of it. It&#8217;s not clean water. Or pandas. We make it, and we can always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[358,266,129,294,218,265],"class_list":["post-7109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-creativity","category-pay-what-its-worth","tag-abundance","tag-economics","tag-marketing","tag-pay-what-its-worth-2","tag-pricing","tag-scarcity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}