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How much slack capacity is reasonable though? Sure, it's good to have a non-zero amount. But that doesn't mean that the opposite extreme - having 20x the capaci
by quicklime 6y ago
How much slack capacity is reasonable though? Sure, it's good to have a non-zero amount. But that doesn't mean that the opposite extreme - having 20x the capacity that you actually use - is the right way to go.
If the best place is anywhere in the middle of those two extremes (e.g. to have 5x the capacity), it won't be possible to achieve while everything is based on individual private ownership. We'd have to share, and build the slack capacity into the shared pool of vehicles.
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- gpm 6y agoThis depends on the cost of the item, the risk associated with not having it, the cost associated with renting it, how wealthy you are, and so on and so forth. No single number makes any sense. A plunger can probably expect <0.1% use of it's capacity. But being stuck without one really sucks, the cost to rent is... once you account for the spent traveling back and forth would be higher than the cost of buying, and as a result literally everyone just buys them. On the flip side a 20 year old fast food worker with $0 in their bank account probably just plain can't afford to have 5x the housing capacity they actually use. That would bankrupt them. So they just don't do it.