Degrowth

The one thing I dislike about "THE LEFT NARRATIVE", and I am generally left leaning, is that "left" people pretend that "left" solutions somehow end scarcity or end things costing.

That can't be true. Just because a new solution would be more social oriented, doesn't mean it suddenly doesn't take material, time, effort and education to do things.

The market economy, in theory, finds fair and correct prices. Obviously when it's being manipulated that's not true. But people criticizing it must show some understanding that what they are criticizing is the malfunction and the unlimited negative consequences and NOT the concept of "some things are rare".

So no. Scarcity is not a political choice. It is a natural fact.

Artificial scarcity, that's a choice.