Scarcity

[Brad DeLong]

>But as I read it Marx thought that the tendency for capitalism to
>engender new wants, substituting social needs for natural ones, was a
>good thing, something he called, without irony, the civilising aspect of
>capitalist society, the creation of the many sided-individual.
>

Ah! Now we are into second-order desire: we don't just want stuff, we 
want new wants too...

Brad DeLong