answer:Unless resources exist and are distributed in proportions exactly equal to their consumption, including accommodating changing uses and variations in population and different habits across populations, there is bound to be more of some things than others in relation to need. Furthermore, scarcity can be created artificially to increase value. But it doesn’t necessarily follow that some things must be scarce. Theoretically there could be plenty for all, even though there is more of some resources than there is of others. If most of the world’s population were to disappear right now, there would still be less gold than there is dirt, but that doesn’t mean a shortage.