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its surprising. I thought that was a key point of them. Granted the standardized sizes and construction standards is probably the most important thing. But once
by syngrog66 5y ago
its surprising. I thought that was a key point of them. Granted the standardized sizes and construction standards is probably the most important thing. But once you have that the next logical benefit is to treat them as fungible commodities, like digits in an account.
Perhaps in normal times they are, but when the flow equilibrium is disrupted suddenly the discretized reality pokes its head through.
- thephyber 5y agoThe containers are sufficiently fungible for the purposes of mounting on trailers, stacking in lots, and stocking the ships. The containers are not sufficiently fungible in the fact that they are owned by different entities which may not all want the containers to be shipped to just any place.