Seems to me the question we need to be asking is *scarce for whom*? For the poor, schools are scarce, medical care is scarce, violence free communities are scarce, housing is scarce, nutritionally beneficial foods are scarce, clean water is scarce, democratic participation is scarce, electricity is scarce etc. etc........ Let's make the polysemy of the concept work *for* our goals. For capital only profits and passive people are scarce....................
Ian _________________--- Well, I think you just settled the debate. dms