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[cousin_it]

"Give thanks to nature, the bountiful, because it has made necessary things easy to procure, while things hard to obtain are not necessary."

-- Epicurus

[huhtenberg → cousin_it]

Arguably, things are promoted to being necessary if they are easy to procure. Otherwise they remain optional.

-- V.Pupkin :)

[cousin_it → huhtenberg]

Wow, from an evolutionary point of view that actually makes sense.

[sp332 → cousin_it]

More like: if you require rare things, you are less likely to live long enough to reproduce.