192. TIME: Principles of Economics online course Lecture 3
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The Scarcity of Material Goods: A Matter of Time
Raw materials require heavy processing to exist in their supposedly raw form. Material goods are limited not because the earth is finite, but because of our limited time to process them. Economic scarcity is a function of the scarcity of human time, leading to the concept of opportunity cost.
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