On this planet, if we humans want to survive, we face threeconstraints:the scarcity of resources, limited life, and endless desires.
These three constraints, of which the limited life iscertain, while the scarcity of resources and the endless desire,cannot be verified or falsified. Some people say that scarcity of resources and constant desire is relative.
But in reality,as long ashuman beings are still alive, they must have the desire to eat and drink. Everyone tries to get more resources to satisfy their desires.
Therefore, according to normal logic, we can still regard these three constraints, scarcity of resources, limited life, and endless desire, as the three assumptions of economic research.
Among these three assumptions, limited resources and endless desire are naturally contradictory. Human beings will always face a serious problem: how to survive on this planet for a long time? This is the core issue of economic research.
It can be seen that the proposition of economics research is grand. This discipline has been exploring: how to fundamentally solve the contradiction between limited resources and infinite desire.
In the past, humans have mainly adopted three methods to resolve this contradiction:
The first is to directly grab the resources of others to satisfy one's own desires, instead of producing or creating, only robbing;
The second is to establish a set of control order after grabbing land and resources, building city walls, building fences, restraining freedom, suppressing desire, and engaging in self-sufficient production on limited land.
The third is the division of labor and exchange. I produce bread, you produce mobile phones, and we exchange products with each other, which can improve the efficiency of resource utilization and satisfy our different desires.
n summary, the three ways of human existence are: plunder, control, and trade. In thousands of years of historical evolution, these three methods have created completely different civilization
