What the goods will do to the owner

When a good goes into surplus the property relation reverses. 

Under scarcity the property relation depends on the tastes and preferences of the owner. The point of the relation is for the owner to consume the good. Under abundance the point of the property relation is no longer about consumption because under surplus the consumption has already passed the point of satiation so the tastes and preferences no longer govern because tastes and preferences are about attitudes to consumption. 

Under abundance the issue is what effect will ownership of the good have on the owner, as in the context of abundance it is the ownership and not the consumption of the good that is dispositive. 

In scarcity the prime criterion is what the owner will do to the goods; in abundance the prime criterion is what the goods will do to the owner. As the quantity of a good rises from scarcity to abundance the relation of the good to the owner shifts from material to spiritual, from physical to moral.