Compare to: If everybody can read, reading loses value.

If everyone has sanitised water it loses value.

Value is the overloaded word. We don't need to scarcity things so dollar number goes up for some elite group.

A good test is forget money and think of human collaboration. People doing things. Does it makes sense from that perspective.

Best way to scale Harvard is easy: make all the other places better (or if they are make people realise that)