Using your car example, if for some reason I owed you an unspecified car, then clearly I'm going to give you the worst car I own.
There's nothing more here than a basic application of marginal utility theory.
agreed (or at least if we add in subjective value) -- which is why the entire naming-of-a-law or calling them tendencies for one type to drive out another is silly.
There is no Gresham. It's just law of demand
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