I think you're getting it confused with "planned obsolescence". The economic term actually is artificial scarcity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_sca

I think you're getting it confused with "planned obsolescence". The economic term actually is artificial scarcity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_scarcity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_scarcity Although the acronym Cracked uses is most definitely not the scientific one.