Scarcity: How Systems Capture Human Bandwidth — The Hidden Architecture of Lack

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This episode explores Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir as a systems-level examination of cognitive scarcity and institutional overload.

Rather than treating poverty, chronic stress, or disorganization as isolated personal failures, this analysis examines how scarcity captures attention, narrows perception, and restructures decision-making itself. Viewed structurally, the deeper issue involves systems that eliminate slack while demanding increasingly complex forms of cognitive performance from overloaded individuals.

Topics include:
· bandwidth taxation and cognitive overload
· tunneling and short-term decision systems
· institutional friction and scarcity traps

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