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\nAmong science fiction and fantasy plot devices, the "uncommon resource" trope is common enough to almost seem clich\xe9. Fortunately (?), the economic principle of scarcity is ubiquitous enough in real life that most of us don't even blink when presented with the idea in fiction.
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\nSo how do we keep it fresh? How do we roll scarcities into the economies we create, and the worlds we build?
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