Making Ends Meet vs There’s Plenty to Go Around

So often we’re proud that we stretched resources to make it work, as if just getting by is a virtue, rather than the problem. We proudly tighten our belts. In fact, the federal budget is praised more when it shrinks than when it grows. However, resources are more abundant than we acknowledge. How do we describe a world with abundant resources? 

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