The danger of artificial scarcity is so it's something as limited. I think a good example of this is thinking of grades as a limited resource. Those risk then leaving people out, they risk not showing us the brilliance of our students when they're showing us what they know because we have limited them in an arbitrary way.
David Clark discusses arbitrary limits in our classes on episode 443 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I am not deadline free, but I have gone to total flexibility for deadlines.
-David Clark
I am a big believer in structure with flexibility.
-David Clark
I have flexibility within my deadlines.
-David Clark
Humans work well with structure.
-David Clark