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Identify a short story where economics is about the creation of scarce (and horrible) goods
I am having trouble identifying a short story that I have read a while ago. It is about the definition of economics in a future where all necessary goods are abundant/readily available. The story is ...
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One person constructs a building, another tears it down, unaware of each other
I heard a synopsis of this story in the early 2000s.
The story is set on a different world, one that has two suns. The suns may have been of different colour. While the first sun is up, the people ...