The scarcity is the product. It's basically a nifty hack that activates a "holy cave tigers, a resource shortage, I need to get this" reflex in human brains. Ac

The scarcity is the product. It's basically a nifty hack that activates a "holy cave tigers, a resource shortage, I need to get this" reflex in human brains. Acquiring the rare product is a rush and that and admission to/status in an group is most of what the money gets you. A few dollars' worth of fabric and plastic and maybe leather is thrown in as a token. If they made enough of them, they'd just be foot-coverings and no one would care much. There's nothing wrong with it as such, as long as it's consensual, plenty of the human lived experience is about tickling biological reflexes that might seem a bit wierd if you were an alien looking in. It just often (even mostly) seems to be dishonestly presented to the consumer (aka much of marketing).