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"Give thanks to nature, the bountiful, because it has made necessary things easy to procure, while things hard to obtain are not necessary." -- Epicurus

• huhtenberg 14y ago
  Arguably, things are promoted to being necessary if they are easy to procure. Otherwise they remain optional. -- V.Pupkin :)
  • cousin_it 14y ago
    Wow, from an evolutionary point of view that actually makes sense.
    • sp332 14y ago
      More like: if you require rare things, you are less likely to live long enough to reproduce.