We differ in our claimed opinion there Nicholas. I have no scarcity of ideas, I am sure you don’t either, so why think there might be a scarcity of those in anyone else?

People can be convinced their ideas are worthless, which might lead to them to believing they have no ideas. That is necessary to convince them their data is worth nothing, by those who would profit by it, for example.

No scarcity of that either, possibly the biggest, most effective gaslighting campaign ever.

The point I always fall back on, when all else fails, hopefully in plain English;

Nature’s empowerment medium, the sun, has limitless energy.

It gives it out for free, to all of nature, eternally, with nothing asked in return.

Why would our human construction of empowerment, money, work better any differently? Can you imagine what would happen, if we somehow found a way to willfully scarcify the energy of the sun, packaging it up in discrete packets, only passing them on at profit, or in return for aything at all?

Of course that would be a disaster.

But wait, isn’t that exactly what we are doing with oil?