How would a manufacturer benefit by using fewer scarce resources? the product would be less expensive to produce. the product would better satisfy consumer needs. the product would be popular and readily available. the product would provide a more satisfactory profit.

Indeed, one of the basic principles of economic production is that when a resource is rare and/or difficult to collect it becomes a more expensive commodity, which in turn makes its use in the production of manufactured goods more expensive.

A good example is the rare earth minerals used in the production of electronic components of cell phones which are extremely rare and thus expensive and valuable. As technology progresses, should the manufacturers find a way to use much less of such rare resources, their demand would decrease and in turn their use in the production of electronic components would be lower which means they could drastically reduce the prices of cells phones and sell even more of these which would increase their financial profits.

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