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What does it mean?
The speaker urges immediate appreciation before their value increases or disappears.
In plain terms
Value me now before I become harder to get.
What can you take from it?
Appreciate value before scarcity drives it up.

Where it applies

  • personal relationships
  • career negotiation

Putting it to work

  • assert value
  • act before too late

Questions to consider

  • Do you wait for demand to appreciate?
  • Is value relative?

Another view

It treats relationships as transactions driven by supply and demand.

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