Why is scarcity the hot new trend?

In a world of AI slop, the cost to produce any type of content quickly goes to zero. People are now being inundated with too much content, all sounding the same, because everyone is using the same model to create it. Enough! Executives and thought leaders that avoid this volume trap and produce real, human, meaningful content will win the day. That's why we're launching Eighth Chair and putting some restrictions in place to avoid the AI slop running over other platforms.

Scarcity is trending because abundance got cheap. Anyone now can produce a product, a song, an image, or an opinion in seconds. And the supply never runs out. When everything is endless, the only thing left to show off, is what isn't. Sports cards figured this out decades ago. A card company decides whether a Shohei Ohtani card gets printed 399 times or once. Collectors know that decision came from a planning meeting, but they still pay many times more for the 1/1 card. That 1/1 card is only as valuable as the name on it. A 1/1 card of a backup pitcher is just as rare and worth only a fraction of an Ohtani 4/399. The company controls the print run. It can't "print" another player who pitched and hits like Ohtani. Rarity multiplies value. It can't create value out of nothing. Scarcity that holds up always has something real underneath it. An athlete nobody can replace. A craftsperson with 20 years of experience in their hands. A person who thinks for themselves and writes it down in their own words. So scarcity is hot because cheap abundance made the rare stuff stand out again. You can manufacture a limited edition, but you can't manufacture a thing worth limiting.