Customers have no incentive to conserve power when it is scarce during times of peak demand, so generating firms have to build lots of spare capacity to cope with surges in consumption.

未将零售价与供求关系挂钩，就无法在负荷达到峰值、电量稀缺时激励用户节约用电，所以发电厂不得不留出大量的闲置产能以防用电量的激增。

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Businesses are unlikely to waste scarce cash on new equipment and offices when they have spare capacity.

企业不大可能浪费稀缺的现金在新设备和办公室，当他们有闲置资产。

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We treated the abundant thing-hard drive capacity-as if it were scarce, and the scarce thing-people's time-as if it were abundant.

我们错把过剩的事物——硬盘容量——当成了稀缺的事物，反倒把真正稀缺的事物——人的时间——当成了充裕的事物。

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The profit is going to those with the scarce resource, the processing capacity.

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But the manufacturing sector has little spare capacity, and high interest rates and scarce power may deter the investment needed to raise production.

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