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Scarcity, Tradeoffs & Allocation

Primes about valuing and allocating finite resources under competing claims: opportunity cost as the forgone best alternative, cost-benefit aggregation of consequences, demand schedules relating quantity to constraint, and the discipline of provisioning and reclaiming resources.

4 primes in this family — primes that sit near one another in abstraction space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its structural–framed character and how distinctive (sparsely-neighbored) it is.