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Why a scarcity mindset can cost you

When you're anxious about the short term, it's hard to plan a few years - or even months - ahead. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

We all saw it at grocery stores in 2020. The shelves, once brimming with toilet paper and hand soap were bare.

We hid in our homes, deep-cleaning every surface, occasionally braving the threat of Covid-19 to hunt down the last remaining bottle of hand sanitiser in a 50-mile radius.

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