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'Scarcity' is usually the underlying answer to these questions.

Reframing it as a way to reduce the scarcity problem might be helpful?



sure, but absent infinite energy supplies with which much is possible, it falls under the general rubric of "no free lunch," which often in the physical world may fall under the conservation of energy (e.g., perpetual motion machines like wind turbines on cars) or the laws of thermodynamics.

The layman's "no free lunch" is a pretty good heuristic though.




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