You want it more than you want not having any real estate, or having real estate in some place that isn&#x27;t Boston, obviously! You want real estate in Boston - so do many other people, many more than who can physically own real estate in Boston. How is it decided who receives and who goes without?<p>Wants cannot be considered seriously independent of the reality of scarcity. The sum of the world&#x27;s wants is greater than the sum of the world&#x27;s resources, so we have to have some system of allocating those resources among those wants. There are many theories on how to do this, but free market trade is somewhat unique in that it is one of the only systems that acknowledges and allows for subjective value. So long as you are permitted to freely trade your time and resources, you are able of exchanging them for whatever you want most - which is not the same as being able to exchange them for all that you want.