TrueLife - Scarcity Warfare – The Engineered Hunger in a World of Plenty

Episode Date: January 1, 2026

One on One Video Call W/George https://tidycal.com/georgepmonty/60-minute-meetingSupport the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USIn this powerful episode of the True Life Podcast, host George Monty delivers a hard-hitting “daily transmission” exposing how corporations and systems deliberately manufacture scarcity to drive profits, control populations, and prevent true abundance from reaching everyday people. Drawing on real-world examples from food, housing, medicine, and more, George reveals the patterns of consolidation, surplus destruction, and artificial shortages that keep society desperate and divided. He calls for recognition, documentation, and rebellion against this “scarcity weapon,” urging listeners to investigate local resources and demand the withheld plenty. This episode is a wake-up call to see beyond the narratives of inflation and supply chain issues to the engineered theft of abundance.Host: George MontyPodcast: True Life PodcastDuration: Approximately 10-15 minutes (based on transcript length)Release Date: Estimated based on content references (late 2025)Listen Here: Explore more episodes and connect with George Monty on the TrueLife platform. Key Timestamps & HighlightsGeorge’s monologue flows as a continuous narrative, but we’ve broken it down into thematic sections with approximate timestamps for easy navigation:•  00:00 - 01:00: The Illusion of Struggle George opens by challenging the narrative that you’re failing—it’s engineered starvation in abundance. He prompts listeners to check their finances and see how earnings vanish despite higher pay, labeling it “2025’s manufactured scarcity” designed for control and extraction.•  01:00 - 02:30: From Ancient Famines to Modern Engineering Contrasting natural famines with today’s deliberate hunger, George highlights U.S. food production capacity (enough for 10 billion people) versus 34 million facing food insecurity amid record corporate profits.   He exposes the “machine that weaponizes emptiness.” •  02:30 - 04:00: Food Shortages Exposed•  2024 egg shortage: Not avian flu, but corporate consolidation by Cal-Maine Foods (20% market control), leading to tripled prices and $535 million in profits. •  2022-2024 baby formula crisis: Abbott’s monopoly (43% market) caused shutdowns, boosting stock 34% while parents turned to black markets. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/doj-egg-prices-rise-cal-maine-profits•  04:00 - 05:00: Housing and Tech Hoarding•  Housing crisis: 16 million vacant homes in the U.S. versus over 600,000 homeless, as empty properties prove more profitable. •  2025 semiconductor shortage: TSMC’s alleged deliberate restrictions via leaked emails to maintain pricing, with chips stockpiled while car prices soar.  (Note: Related to trade secret leaks; broader shortage context available.)https://unitedwaynca.org/blog/vacant-homes-vs-homelessness-by-city/•  05:00 - 06:30: Surplus Destruction and Corporate Mandates George uncovers patterns of destroying goods under USDA/EPA/FDA protocols lobbied by corporations.  He cites the 2024 NASS report (Appendix G, p. 847) on 2.3 billion pounds of produce destroyed to avoid “market destabilization.”  Kroger’s 2019 leaked memo advocates “optimal scarcity ratios” for urgency buying. https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2023/09/20/usda-expands-efforts-prevent-and-reduce-food-loss-and-wastehttps://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Crop_Progress_&_Condition/2024/index.phphttps://www.nationofchange.org/2024/09/03/corporate-greed-exposed-kroger-admits-to-price-gouging-on-milk-and-eggs-amid-antitrust-trial/•  06:30 - 08:00: The Scarcity Playbook Step-by-step breakdown: Consolidate supply, engineer shortages (restrict, destroy surplus), profit from desperation. Blame shifts to weather or labor, not architects.•  08:00 - 10:00: Historical and Ongoing Examples•  2008 housing crisis: Banks held 3.5 million foreclosures as “shadow inventory” to keep prices high. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis•  2020 toilet paper: Procter & Gamble and Georgia-Pacific (55% control) restricted distribution for 300% price surges at 64% capacity. https://www.resourcewise.com/market-watch-blog/are-we-really-running-out-of-toilet-paper-in-the-covid-crisis•  2021 lumber: Weyerhaeuser and West Fraser (40% control) quadrupled prices with underused mills. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/lumber-prices-hit-record-highs-soaring-past-year-2021-4-1030299977•  2023 prescription drugs: Wholesalers like McKesson, Cardinal, and AmerisourceBergen (95% control) restrict insulin ($2 production cost) amid shortages. https://www.mmm-online.com/home/channel/drug-shortages-in-america/•  2025 water: Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Pepsi (75% bottled water) amid contaminated public supplies. https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/bottled-water-market•  10:00 - 11:30: Broader Patterns of Waste Amazon destroys 2 million unsold products yearly for scarcity pricing.  Pharma discards effective expired meds.  Energy firms flare gas for 10 million homes.  McKinsey’s 2023 report recommends 15-20% below-demand inventory for margins.  Supply chain “disruptions” post-2020? Traffic normalized by Q3 2021, but prices stayed high via throttling. https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethical-campaigns-boycotts/amazons-burning-approach-unsold-returned-productshttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10834166/

George Marty, True Life podcast. Daily transmission. The scarcity that's being engineered. You are not struggling. You are not failing. You are being starved in a world of abundance. And they've convinced you the empty shelf is natural when it's the most profitable weapon ever designed.

Right now, open your banking app. Give it a try. Look at your balance. Then calculate your rent, your groceries, your gas, your insurance. See how the numbers don't work anymore? How what used to stretch now vanishes. How you're making more money than ever, but somehow have less. That's not inflation.

That's 2025's manufactured scarcity. The systemic engineering of artificial shortage in a world producing more than ever, designed to keep you desperate, isolated, and too exhausted to recognize you're being robbed in broad daylight. They call it supply and demand in economics textbooks, but it's scarcity warfare, deliberate restriction of abundance to maintain control, maximize extraction, and ensure populations never have enough security to resist, organize, or imagine alternatives. Ancient famines were accidents of nature. Now they engineer hunger in the Garden of Eden.

The United States produces enough food to feed 10 billion people where 330 million, yet 34 million Americans face food insecurity while grocery corporations post record profits. That math doesn't math unless someone's cook in the books. Now the machine weaponizes emptiness. 2024's shortage wasn't avian flu. It was corporate consolidation with Cal Main Foods controlling 20% of production posting $535 million in profit while prices tripled responding to market conditions.

They themselves created through systemic elimination of small farms. Baby formula crisis, 22 to 24, wasn't supply chain failure. It was monopoly with Abbott controlling 43% of the market, putting down production for quality concerns while their stock price climbed 34% creating scarcity that forced desperate parents into black markets for a product that cost 11 cents per serving to manufacture. Housing shortage isn't lack of houses. It's artificial scarcity through corporate hoarding with 16 million vacant homes in the U.S. while 600,000 plus Americans are homeless because empty investment properties are more profitable than housed humans. The 2025 semiconductor

shortage. Being car prices elevated isn't production capacity. Leaked TSM email showed deliberate allocation restrictions to maintain pricing power with chips stockpiled in warehouses while consumers pay 10,000 over MSRP for vehicles. But here's the undiscovered explosive. Cross-reference USDA surplus destruction mandates, EPA food waste regulations, and FDA safety protocols with corporate lobbying expenditures. There's a documented pattern of perfectly good food, medicine, and goods being destroyed by a legal requirement while shortages rage, laws written by the very corporations who profit from scarcity. The 24 National Agricultural Statistics Service report buried in Appendix G, page 847, reveals U.S. farms destroyed 2.3 billion pounds of produce in 2023, not because it was

bad, but because oversupply would destabilize markets. Translation, abundance threatens profit, so abundance must be eliminated. No outlet has connected the pattern. Prover's 2019 Internal Memo leaked in antitrust discovery explicitly states, maintain optimal scarcity ratios, full shelves reduce urgency purchasing, and price tolerance. They're literally engineering the empty shelf to make you panic by at inflated prices. The playbook starves. First, consolidate the supply. Merge until 4 to 6 corporations control entire sectors,

eliminating competition that would serve abundance. Then, engineer the shortage, restrict production, destroy surplus, create bottlenecks at their controlled choke points. Finally, profit from desperation. Prices surge due to scarcity. They created while media blames weather, labor, regulation, anything but the architects. Document the formula. 2008 housing crisis.

Banks held 3.5 million vacant foreclosures off market deliberately, creating artificial scarcity that kept prices elevated while families went homeless. Leaked countrywide memos called it shadow inventory optimization, 2020 toilet paper, Procter & Gamble in Georgia Pacific. Together, control 55% of production. Shortage wasn't hoarding. It was restricted distribution. to drive prices of 300% while production capacity sat at 64% utilization.

2021 lumber, Weyerhaeuser, and West Fraser control 40% of North American production. Prices quadrupled while sawmills ran below capacity and forests were full, creating the most profitable quarter in timber industry history. 2023, prescription drugs, three wholesalers. McKesson, Cardinal, Amerisource, Bergen. control 95% of distribution. Insulin shortages for a drug that costs $2 to produce while patients die rationing $300 vials they deliberately restrict.

2025 water. Nestle, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo control 75% of bottled water while Flint accident 2000 plus U.S. cities have contaminated tap water. Scarcity of safe water in a nation surrounded by freshwater isn't natural. It's infrastructure sabotage and corporate capital. Do you see the pattern? Every shortage tracks to corporate consolidation and deliberate restriction in markets with actual abundance.

That stress you feel at checkout watching prices, you can't afford on shelves half empty? It's not economic forces beyond control. It's economic violence under precise control. Designed to keep you scrambling too hard to notice the warehouse full of what they claim doesn't exist. Cross-reference what they don't. Don't want merged. Amazon destroys 2 million unsold products annually in U.S. warehouses alone.

Deliberate ways to maintain scarcity pricing. Pharmaceutical companies destroy expired medications that remain effective for decades. Artificial scarcity in medicine that cost pennies to make. Energy companies flare enough natural gas annually to power 10 million homes, manufactured energy scarcity while they burn the abundance. 2023 McKinsey report for retail clients explicitly recommends strategic scarcity positioning. Maintain inventory 50 to 20% below demand ceiling to optimize margin through urgency. They're teaching corporations to starve you for profit.

That supply chain disruption narrative? You've been fed since 2020. Shipping container traffic return to normal levels by Q321, yet prices stayed elevated for three more years. Port data shows the ships were moving, warehouses were full, but distribution was deliberately throttled at corporate-controlled choke points. A population kept desperate will accept any wage, any condition, any degradation, because the alternative is starvation in a world of plenty. They can see but never touch.

Dangerous scarcity is your control mechanism, recognize it, document it, demand the abundance that exists. Real freedom doesn't accept artificial shortage. It identifies the warehouses, the algorithms, the policies that create emptiness and overflow. It organizes to seize what's being withheld 2001, 1002,0003. Feel the manufactured hunger? That emptiness? It's not real. It's profitable. Tonight's Rebellion, 90 seconds, no acceptance. Go to your city's commercial zoning records online. Search warehouse in your county. Note how many Amazon, Walmart, Target distribution centers exist within 50 miles of you.

Then search your state plus food waste statistics. See the surplus being destroyed while you struggle. See the abundance within miles that's kept from you. Calculate the gap between what exists and what you're allowed to access. That gap, that's the theft. That recognition, that's you seeing the skill. the scarcity weapon, the mirror demands. Ask tonight, what am I told doesn't exist that's actually

being withheld? Expose the scarcity they engineer and you become unstarved. George Monty, True Life podcast. If you found this podcast to be of good information, please like, give it a share. Let's get as many people watching this so that as many people can see what's being done to them.