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Originally Posted by Dumas
Your inference is unfounded by definition.
I don't see where artificial scarcity has anything to do with behavior, but instead recognizes an economic situation that exists whereby abundance is possible due to technology.
Through coercion and legal means, scarcity is created where abundance could otherwise exist, hence the scarcity is artificial in nature.
Any abuses/behaviors you allege are independent of the economic condition.
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Doesn't matter though. The owner of the product can decide at what level to produce and distribute it. That is the way capitalistic economy works. To do it any other way requires complete and total changes to all business and human society.
There have been about a billion science fiction stories written warning of the dangers of such changes.