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> “All of the overcapacity that has been squeezed out of our healthcare system; we now wish we had it. All of the redundancy in our food production that has bee
by csours 6y ago
> “All of the overcapacity that has been squeezed out of our healthcare system; we now wish we had it. All of the redundancy in our food production that has been consolidated away; we want that, too. We need our old, local supply chains — not the single global ones that are so fragile in this crisis. And we want our local restaurants and businesses to survive, not just the national chains.”
Just In Time - the machine that changed the world (See Toyota Production System)
Just In Time works great, until it doesn't. The factory works at 1 unit per minute, demand is pretty inelastic. Society is pretty elastic, if a bunch of people decide they want toilet paper TODAY, the Just In Time system is going to starve out.
- gwern 6y agoJust In Time works great; that and other efficiencies have brought humanity to a world so cosmically wealthy, so infinitely more developed than robust decentralized green (ie. medieval peasant standard of living) economies, that its inhabitant can lounge around eating bon-bons getting obese while endlessly resharing on social media the same photo of one shop out of thousands being out for a day or two of a luxury as a devastating indictment of Just in Time.
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- jimbokun 6y agoThere were a lot of articles written about the Great Toilet Paper shortage, but in reality after a short period of time everyone got all the toilet paper they needed. I think the system responded very well.