<span>through their votes / elected officials</span>
I believe consumer that needs limited resources affected the opportunity costs, because they only needs limited resources but they want a finished product in a specific deadline that they asked.
Lesser number of people needed means lesser opportunity.
Reverend Charles Colcock Jones was a slave owner who struggled with the morality of having slaves. Even when he thought that slavery was necessary for the economy and, therefore, defended that institution, he also believed that slaves deserved a more kindheartedly approach and the right to have a religious education, so he evangelized slaves and instructed other owners and ministers to the same.
The best term describes the population in Arabia and Iraq is, Urbanized.
