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Scarcity Rationalization

The ideological claim that resources are inherently and permanently insufficient to meet human needs, used to justify inequality, hoarding, and the exclusion of certain groups from access. It presents a contingent political choice—who gets what—as an immutable law of nature, framing greed as prudence and sharing as naive.
Example: "There just isn't enough to go around," said by a wealthy nation debating healthcare or housing, while immense wealth concentrates at the top. This scarcity rationalization masks artificial, politically-engineered scarcity (e.g., vacant investment properties, drug patents) to naturalize deprivation and defeat demands for redistribution.
Scarcity Rationalization by Abzugal February 8, 2026

Scarcity Extortion

Deliberately maintaining or manufacturing resource scarcity to extract compliance and labor from people who depend on those resources for survival.
Person #1: "My boss won't give me a raise even though I generate way more value than I'm paid. When I ask, he says 'be grateful you have a job.'"

Person #2: "That's Scarcity Extortion. He's keeping you just above survival so you stay dependent and compliant. The scarcity is manufactured—you generate the resources, he just controls the distribution."
Scarcity Extortion by CoolNiteBreeze September 8, 2026

Post-scarcity 

Referring to a theoretical point in time past resource scarcity, society, or economical system in which there is no shortage of most goods, and labour, for the most part, is not placed on humans. The idea stems from futurological concepts of a society that has advanced to such a point that most resources are not limited, and can be produced, oftentimes by robots or narrow AI, or other artificial mechanisms. In this society, there would be no conflicts over resources, and society would have reached its maximum efficiency.
A post-scarcity society, one where do not worry about limited resources.
Post-scarcity by THEREALHYPEBOSS August 5, 2021

Theory of Constructed Scarcity

The principle that many situations of "scarcity"—not having enough of something—are man-made, not natural. It happens when access to an abundant or sufficiently producible resource is artificially restricted through control, hoarding, legal barriers, or designed obsolescence. The scarcity of the resource is a constructed condition to drive up its value, create competition, and maintain power for those who control the supply. Diamonds aren't rare; their scarcity is carefully constructed by cartels.
Example: "The concert sold out in minutes, but suddenly hundreds of tickets appeared on resale sites at 5x the price. That's the Theory of Constructed Scarcity. The digital tickets weren't physically scarce; their availability was artificially constricted by bots and platform rules to create a desperate market. The 'shortage' was a profitable fiction built by code and scalpers, not by an actual lack of seats."

Segregated Identity Scarcity Experience

The experience of being a multidimensional person whose excellence and oppression are treated as if they can't exist at the same time.

It happens when society recognizes you as successful, capable, privileged, resilient, or exceptional in one context, but dismisses the discrimination, barriers, marginalization, or disparity you experience in another. Instead of seeing the whole picture, people pick whichever part of your identity fits their narrative.

Basically: “You can be oppressed OR exceptional, but apparently you can't be both.”

Segregated identity scarcity is a social phenomenon, rather than an individual who possesses contradictory or fragmented identities.

The person isn't necessarily internally divided.

The recognition of the person is divided.

This distinction moves from asking:

Why does this person have such contradictory experiences?

to:

Why does society require contradictory experiences to be separated in order to recognize them?
Navigating social services and systems while utilizing conventional behavioral health services while trying to have language point towards the complexity of existing in a multiplicity becomes less difficult when understood through the lense of the segregated identity scarcity experience. It is a kind of magnetism and vacuum for enhance projection of dualisitc experiences onto a person navigating what might otherwise be called 'twice exceptional' in a K-12 education setting and evolves to be applied to live more broadly.

Scar City 

San Carlos, one of da badder hoods in the Bay Area, other than EPA and Oakland. The "scar" comes from san carlos, its name, and city makes it sound cooler. sometimes written as S.Car city. Scar City is sometimes also calld Sanny C and "Car"
Scar City by Scarsta February 18, 2005
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Pee Calculus

When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
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"The girl is pretty but she corrupt and dutty!"

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"Booya! That freestyle was dutty!"
Dutty by J Hall April 3, 2003
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Slop Grenade

When someone uses AI to generate a large document, slide deck, or piece of code/software and tosses it over the fence for you to deal with.
Chad: Hey Brent I sent you the new backend API change to review, it’s only 100 files changed.

Brent: he just tossed me a slop grenade
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After we broke up, he was floxi to me.
floxi by Dr. Geek May 13, 2009
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New York and everyone from there can fornicate themselves with an iron stick.
leafers by ss++ February 8, 2005
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