# Scarcity and Spice

A valuable resource reorganizes mobility, institutions, inheritance, resistance, and the meaning of abundance.

- Type: curated historical and symbolic lineage
- Inquiry Domain: civilization-ecology

## Path

1. **Scarcity** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-forces-scarcity--sfoc-systems-resource-monopoly`
2. **Resource Monopoly** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-systems-resource-monopoly--sfoc-artifacts-spice`
3. **Spice** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-artifacts-spice--sfoc-factions-spacing-guild`
4. **Spacing Guild** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-factions-spacing-guild--sfoc-factions-great-houses`
5. **Great Houses** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-factions-great-houses--sfoc-factions-corporate-feudalism`
6. **Corporate Feudalism** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-factions-corporate-feudalism--sfoc-factions-resistance-network`
7. **Resistance Network** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-factions-resistance-network--sfoc-forces-liberation`
8. **Liberation** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-forces-liberation--sfoc-forces-abundance`
9. **Abundance**

## Reading

- Forward: Read as an unfolding sequence in which each threshold creates the problem addressed by the next.
- Reverse: Read as an integration path that traces a present condition back toward its enabling assumptions.
- Diagnostic: Stop where the sequence first feels implausible; that seam names the contested transition.
