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Chocolate is not a scarce product. You can buy chocolate candies quite cheaply. Or, you can go with a fancy foo-foo California chocolate and spend a fortune.
Ebooks. I can get a sufficient quantity of free, or less than $4.00 books to keep me reading for the rest of my life. Or, I can buy Carlyle Wilkie's hot new best seller the first day it comes out and spend a fortune and sneer at all my friends in California.
Scarcity is relevant only for some items. I'm only seventy but scarcity hasn't been a relevant factor in my reading. Taxes have been a factor here in Mexico. Collusion between publishers has certainly been a factor. Escalating legal costs, driven by lawyers, have certainly been a factor.
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