Mimetic rivalries are fought over objects that are scarce. Often these objects are metaphysical and include such things as honor, power, and prestige, which are perceivably limited.
Presumably, if there was enough of these objects to go around, mimesis would be defused.
However, mimetic theory challenges the classical economic assumption that an object’s scarcity creates competition for it. It suggests instead that the object’s scarcity is the result of the mimetic desire for it.