Are they?

We have so much stuff that we just throw things away if a tiny piece of it gets tarnished / broken.

The US's population density is pretty low and we have a ton of land not in cities that's very sparsely populated.

Like it largely seems that geopolitics of now is about creating scarcity.

> Like it largely seems that geopolitics of now is about creating scarcity.

How else do you create scarcity except by controlling all the resources?