What fact ultimately constraints the consumption of any item said to be available in unlimited amounts at a fixed price?
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An individual's wants are unlimited in number yet each individual's want is satiable. Therefore, as an individual consumes more and more units of goods, an intensity of his want for the goods goes on falling and a point is reached where the individual no longer wants any more units of the goods. That is when saturation point is reached, the
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