Scarcity Mindset in a World of Plenty

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🗃 Resources:: Dopamine Nation (2021)
2026-06-10

Why do so many of us living in rich nations with abundant material resources nonetheless operate in our daily lives with a scarcity mindset? As we have seen, having too much material wealth can be as bad as having too little. Dopamine overload impairs our ability to delay gratification. Social media exaggeration and "post-truth" politics amplify our sense of scarcity. The result is that even amidst plenty, we feel impoverished.