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scarcity, manufactured on purpose, sold to you as meaning.
means a deliberately capped run of a product, made to feel rare so demand outpaces supply.
from the idea traces to art print culture, where numbering plates and destroying them afterward proved a print could never be duplicated; brands later borrowed the numbering without the destroying part.
art world rootsprints were numbered so plates could be voided after
the trickscarcity is chosen, not discovered, by the maker
resale mathsecondary markets often value scarcity over quality
real costmost limited runs cost nearly the same to make as regular ones
for instance
jordan 1 chicago — 1985 nike release now resells for 20x retail
birkin bags — hermes caps production, waitlists stretch years
lego ucs millennium falcon — 2007 set became a collector staple at 5000 units
mcdonalds mcrib — artificially reintroduced then pulled to fake urgency