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https://www.quora.com/Why-do-oil-fields-oil-rigs-burn-gas answers your flare question. If you think you know better than the people in the O&G industry, feel free to start a new company.

Energy has forever been scarce, otherwise the price wouldn't be wildly different per continent. If you think it is not scarce, start buying it in one cheap place and transport it to an expensive place.

Food is pretty scarce too, because there are a lot of people and not all of them can eat the best. If you don't believe food is scarce, visit North-Korea. I think housing is artificially limited, due to pointless regulations, so that would be a good example, but you would have to substantiate it with specific references in resources such as https://buildingtheskyline.org/skyscrapers-and-affordability/. By definition land is in limited supply, and housing prices are related to the price of land, so a skyscraper only becomes an option when the price of land is very high (since building higher is more costly (and this will always remain the case). So, regulations have an impact on housing prices, but you have not demonstrated how large this impact is. As such, your arguments are only convincing at a first glance.

Research papers funded with public money should be free, yes, but often already are.

Cell phone service is already at $10/month.

Internet uses power and as such can't be "free", but I agree that it's not a free market.

The fiber market for example, is unfair, because the first company to dig somewhere doesn't need to care about the fiber of someone else. The second company has higher digging costs and can't be competitive anymore.