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Comment by xg15

4 years ago

This implies that anything that is scarce or requires labour to obtain automatically becomes desirable and rises in value.

scarcity is a necessary, but insufficient condition for desirability.

  • I think it's not even necessary. Otherwise, rights holders wouldn't have to put in so much effort to hold up the other form of artificial scarcity, DRM. Free software wouldn't exist.