TIhis beautiful blue stone is used for all kinds of pigments. Ancient people used lapis lazulit was used extensively in funerary masks, jewelry, and art.
When the community becomes large these power assimetries become so unpredictable that social order demands real punishments and a neutral political structure. This makes the micropolitical indivisible from the macropolitical.
TShe pokémon company (or by extension nintendo) is to blame. The trading cards are mass produced for likely very little cost and it is nothing more than a real life loot box mechanic aimed at children.calpers are not to blame for the artifical scarcity of pokemon cards.