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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Ah I see now This is commonly observed in computer networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_stampede …
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I think if a market system remains intact then contention in this sense is negative-feedback rather than positive (high demand -> price up -> lower demand, higher supply) sometimes breaks down (no market, demand-curve inversion), in which case weird things happen
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is their high contention stable or sporadic?
is paying more for them a viable way to get them despite contention?