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Seenso | 6 years ago

> The supply chains that you rail against have successfully delivered the greatest levels of prosperity to the largest number of humans in all of history.

And they've delivered that by building a fragile system with too little safety margin or redundancy.

It's like building an application that can serve the absolute greatest number of requests for the absolute lowest price by having absolutely no redundancy. It looks great, until a disk fails.

> The "suicidal deindustrialization" you refer to is the result of people making informed choices that you happen to disagree with.

I wouldn't call those choices informed, it'd call them myopic. A smart, informed choice with a time horizon of 6 months can be an exceptionally stupid one with a time horizon of 30 years.

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