Jerry’s Marginalia — “Scarcity Is Contagious”
- Filed by: Jerry “The Ankle Biter” Silverhand
- Tribunal Chair · Dept. of Petty Affairs
- Doctrine: Don’t bark — bill.
Scarcity isn’t about what’s missing. It’s about what people think is about to disappear.
A weather app blinks “cold.” Texas loses its mind. Shelves empty. Everyone starts acting like soup is a strategic resource.
At home, it looks smaller—but it’s the same disease.
Food becomes leverage. Kindness becomes conditional. Offers turn into trades before anyone even checks the pantry.
Meanwhile, someone else is standing there like:
- there’s pizza
- there’s bread
- there’s jelly
- there are infinite hot dog buns (as foretold)
No emergency. No famine. No need for negotiations.
That’s the tell.
People infected with scarcity try to secure advantage early. People who aren’t just… eat something else.
The correction isn’t confrontation. It’s refusal to participate.
No panic buying. No emotional IOUs. No “if you do this, then—”
Just a simple audit:
Do I actually need this? Or am I being invited into someone else’s anxiety?
Jerry does not stockpile fear. He lets others run drills for disasters that never arrive.
The soup will be ordered. The wing will remain uneaten. The world will keep spinning.
And scarcity, denied an audience, will quietly starve.
Filed. Stamped. Pantry full. 🦝✔️