Speculators and futurists talk about a "post-scarcity" economy, in which things are generally free; in which the costs of things are too low for it to be worth measuring them.

投机者和未来主义者谈到了 “后匮乏” 经济，其中所有一切通常都是免费的；其成本太低而不值得对其进行衡量。

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So it was during the Great Depression as regulatory bodies built to manage scarcity grew apace during the fabulous post-war boom.

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Nothing at all to do with increasing scarcity in the grand sense, just a recovery of prices from their post-Soviet low.

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