Scarcity

Scarcity is a hinge concept that runs in two registers across Kyle’s wiki, and the pages are careful to keep them distinct. The first is the religious/abundance sense: in Gordon B. Hinckley — Go Forward With Faith, Hinckley’s “things will work out” motto is read as an “attitude of abundance rather than scarcity” — expecting the best and working to make it happen rather than dwelling on the dark side. Scarcity Mentality explicitly flags itself as the behavioral-economics sense (Mullainathan & Shafir, via Utopia For Realists) as opposed to this religious/abundance meaning.

The second is the material/economic sense. In Evicted, land scarcity is named as a deliberate moneymaker — concentrated poverty as “social design, not accident” — and the book is read as a direct study in how scarcity makes “irrational” choices rational (“small pleasures to season the suffering”). Capital Allocator Mindset borrows the word metaphorically: the premise the mindset imposes is that attention and interest are scarce capital rather than something endless, to be allocated deliberately.

Where this appears

• Gordon B. Hinckley — Go Forward With Faith — Hinckley’s abundance-over-scarcity attitude (#abundance #scarcity); “things will work out.”
• Evicted — land scarcity as social design and profit engine; scarcity making poor choices rational.
• Capital Allocator Mindset — attention/interest treated as scarce capital to be allocated, not endless.
• Scarcity Mentality — the behavioral-economics sense, explicitly distinguished from the religious/abundance meaning here.