How do we cope with abundance?
Posted on: March 4, 2010
Abundance & scarcity
On Monday, an American said something to me which struck me as profound and worth storing away to think about. “People from your part of the world take something and do everything they can with it. British take something and do as little as possible with it.”
With that in the back of my mind, this morning I was reading the reports on Clay Shirky’s opening address to NFAIS. We know what to do about scarcity. But abundance confuses us.
The two ideas connected at once.
Maybe in conditions of abundance it is wise to do as little as possible with each thing that you have?
Does that chime with you?
flowing motion 
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