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Can you think of products where mass-production makes things less efficient?
by SketchySeaBeast 6y ago
Can you think of products where mass-production makes things less efficient?
- KineticLensman 6y agoThe apparent efficiency may depend on whether the manufacturers and the immediate customers pick up all of the costs, or whether negative externalities or other costs are picked up by third parties. E.g mass agriculture may make food cheaper at the cost of environmental damage due to use of pesticides, soil erosion, etc. These costs may be picked up by wider society or just ignored.
- SketchySeaBeast 6y agoYeah, in the big picture that's true - lots of industries suffer from this - but I meant from a "disrupt the market, make lots of money" frame of reference, which is where all these things seem to start from.