Fundamental resources/Intro
From AdCiv
Mankind's four fundamental resources are material, energy, intelligence and information. They are actually all so abundant it is incredible to think that people in this world are still going without basic human necessities.
In the past a lack of technology was a significant cause of scarcity but that is not a reason today in the 21st century. It is the way that we currently employ our resources that is inefficient and wasteful, there is no fundemental scarcity to speak of. Current financial mechanisms are one major reason that resources are restricted, creating an unecessary artificial scarcity.