high-contention resources (a subtype of scarce resources) show a self-similar unavailability pattern: the harder it is to get them, the harder it becomes to get them
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Seems to me that contention for commodities stably increases over time with growth in population and qualify of life Paying more always helps with commodities by definition — they’re interchangeable. I’d have a harder time trying to bid for the British crown
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i don’t know if we’re using contention the same way, there’s only contention if some people/processes are trying to get the resources and can’t for at least a while paying more doesn’t help if for example prices are fixed legally, which notoriously increases contention
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is their high contention stable or sporadic?
is paying more for them a viable way to get them despite contention?