Fungibility Interplay

You should strive to be a “scarce resource” to gain power. Is it really so? Let’s take a different perspective. In the industrial world, when a material becomes too expensive or rare, the market simply finds a substitute.

Copper gives way to aluminium. Cobalt in batteries can be replaced by iron. Scarcity doesn’t create permanent control. It creates an urgent incentive for everyone else to find a way to work without you.

Fungibility is a human principle, not just an industrial one. We overestimate what we have and underestimate what we do. Your status can be replicated and your roles can be redesigned.

The value lies in a dynamic state of adaptability. If people can easily switch to a different provider or partner, your leverage is a ghost.

Scarcity creates a temporary throne. Intelligent action creates a long-term empire. Intelligent action compounds while static control fades.

Yours truly,

Irina

Ein Zentrum (A Centre), Wassily Kandinsky, 1922