Okay interesting, thats a broad point to claim. If supply is always the problem, and demand never the problem, then, running with the food theme, why is sugar so popular?

Humans went to extraodinray lengths, and committed many crimes against others to produce and secure supplies of sugar cane in particular. Whole nations now exist that are a result of that trade hundreds of years ago. Supply of sugar was hard, and while its quite abundant now, i think its hard to argue that people don’t still exert a massive demand pull for the product in a multitude of forms.

The demand for sugar was so high in France during Napoleon’s reign that when the British essentially cut off the French from the sugar fields of the Carribean, the French were under pressure to develop a substitute for the citizenry in the form of beet sugar, apparently a poor and expensive substitute. So where supply was cut off, the pressure of the demand side created an alternative product.

Time to out myself here, i’m not impartial in this discussion. I may have asked my partner to stop in at the shops to grab biscuits for a sweet snack. My brain demanded sweetness, and I delivered… well, my partner delivered…