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If you're against stockpiling, then you're in favor of the zero inventory cost cutting practice that got us in to this mess to begin with.
by whatshisface 5y ago
If you're against stockpiling, then you're in favor of the zero inventory cost cutting practice that got us in to this mess to begin with.
- bfdm 5y agoYup, turned out that inventory isn't pure capital waste after all. It's an insurance policy, an investment in stability. Bring back inventory.
- mschuster91 5y agoAnd in ten years, when the pandemic has passed, the MBA beancounters and/or "activist investors" will ask the question "do we need stockpiles of inventory???" again. And then history will repeat itself - many years of profit, followed by a crisis of some kind and then we will have another "delivery crisis".
- alfiedotwtf 5y ago> It's an insurance policy That's a really good way of putting it.
- Dylan16807 5y agoStockpiling as a general concept doesn't worsen things. Rapidly increasing your stockpile size as a response to shortages is what worsens things.
- the_mitsuhiko 5y agoThere is a balance to everything.