I mean, all those economies of scale either result in lower prices (say meat packing and feed lots), or allow extra R&D to make the product better (say, image r

I mean, all those economies of scale either result in lower prices (say meat packing and feed lots), or allow extra R&D to make the product better (say, image recognition in Google Photos). Decentralization, redundancy, shock absorption is something you have to explicitly value and pay for (with lower quality and/or higher prices) and I don't think this is more than a niche preoccupation. Maybe this pandemic will change things, but do you really wanna bet against lower prices?