Scarcity

beneficial consequences of this virtue are the sole foundation of its merit…”(Hume 6). Justice cannot exist in either extreme of abundance or scarcity. In the world of unlimited resources there is no need for justice. Everyone has everything they could ever need or want and intern justice would have never needed to be created in the first place. In the world of scarcity however, justice is suspended, as it is every man for himself. There is no moral reasoning involved, not even for the…

Starbucks- A reason in a making coffee the world’s number 1 sustainable product. Starbucks is devoted in helping farmers defeat the difficulties confronting the other coffee groups by additionally giving them a large number of malady safe trees to battle the dangers like coffee leaf rust, hence enhancing their profitability and sustainability. In deploying a comprehensive strategy, Starbucks is improving the resilience of their supply chain and ensuring the long-term supply of high-quality…

oil companies knew of several potential sites” (47). According to Mitchell, the companies’ plans to help especially Iraq build transportation networks was a deceitful scheme in their goal to “sabotage the production of oil” (47) and propagate oil scarcity. They, similarly, acted in the same vein as the coal miners and workers in trying to curtail the plenitude of oil since it affected global oil prices and market value. Also, Diana Davis’ idea of the ‘declensionist environmental narrative’: the…

during Prohibition and their access to illegal liquor. Alcohol is frequently associated with old money. Gatsby, who is seen as different from the rest of the wealthy people in the book, rarely drinks, while everyone else is constantly drunk. The scarcity of alcohol to the public made it desirable and fashionable to the upper class during Prohibition, despite its poor stigma prior to the era. F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays how the old money of America is directly associated with alcohol and how the…

Furthermore, when people who live in Carpenter’s neighborhood come and harvest some of the food in her garden, she calls them “annoying” for picking the wrong things and implies they are greedy when they harvest a lot. However, she fails to realize the scarcity of fresh food available to people in neighborhoods like the one in which she lives, again alienating a large group of people who aren’t as privileged as she…

Like many of the Asian countries, an improvement to Vietnam’s healthcare sector is met with a plethora of challenges. Hanoi has not taken this lightly and has already had its Ministry of Health commence a 5 year development strategy with a partnership with the International Health Partnership (IHP+) group. The partnership with the IHP+ and enhancement policy was scheduled to run concurrently from 2010 to 2015. Vietnam joined the IHP+ in April of 2010. Its current IHP+ agreement is piggy backed…

From the scenario, we could see that there is a conflict between Mike Garcia and Jill Hendrickson. The first component that defines the conflict is through an expressed struggle. The team is struggling in inventing innovative toddler booster seats. The expressed struggle from the manufacturing side could be seen from Mike, the manager, who has often complained that the design from the engineers is delusional as it might be impossible to be implemented. He also said that the design team was…

Accelerando and the Internet Accelerando by Charles Stross, a compendium of short stories that looks at the concept for the ever expanding world of our internet, with the overlapping of future tech and its possibilities. Accelerando is about the internet because the people abandon the physical world for a digital one and the measurements of time are no longer connected to the natural world around us. The technology from the internet causes a complete change in the lives of the humans. Because…

advanced rational creatures it has been demonstrated by the two articles from this week that we often show fallacy in our judgement of opportunity cost and incentive when it comes to make decisions regarding human life. Because we live in a world of scarcity we have finite resources in terms of money and attention to devote to the problems and diseases that plague our society so we have to consider both the economic and moral argument to committing resources to an issue. In addition, the…

The idea that the production of certain foods or fibres in Australia needs to be more sustainable is a very simple concept that can be accomplished. This goal can be accomplished by using sustainable practices and raising the importance of the environment whilst producing the food or fibre. Grape production for example is quite a sustainable practice as the farming of grapes themselves don’t have a negative impact on the environment. The grapes however are very sensitive compared to other fruits…