Does buying groups of things leap from some childhood fear of scarcity?
But in the sentence It's one of the things that irk me, the relative clause is describing the whole group of things and its antecedent is the plural "things").
"You've got entrepreneurial wealth, you've got Asian wealth, Russian wealth, Middle Eastern wealth, petroleum wealth, financial wealth — all, in many cases, competing for a common group of things".
And, while we're categorizing here, there is yet another group of things -- ones you never really wanted in the first place, and that you wouldn't miss one whit if they went away.
This bottom-up view of IoT is lacking mechanisms for aggregating, managing and administrating groups of things.
First, any two (groups of) things have infinitely many properties in common and also differ in infinitely many respects.
At a high level, a user interface consists of two groups of things: things with which you can interact and things with which you can't.
For most adults, prior determinate cognition is partly responsible for the content predicable of a particular, or a group of things, presented through the senses.
Another group of things that is habitually referred to as 'models', in particular in economics, is equations (which are then also termed 'mathematical models').
Similarly, different groups of things, e.g., Bill and Hillary, George and Barbara, can be related in similar ways, and the postulation of a relation (here being married to) that the members of each group jointly instantiate is often cited to explain this similarity.
