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Is that exclusively only manufacturable by multi-billion dollar mega corps? Is it impossible for every region of 10 million people to manufacture their own?
by pigsty 4y ago
Is that exclusively only manufacturable by multi-billion dollar mega corps? Is it impossible for every region of 10 million people to manufacture their own?
- 323 4y agoOne could say that a company serving 10 million is a megacorp.
- CuriousCosmic 4y agoI don't believe that's the question being asked. Rather they are asking whether the process was/is only viable with the support of a megacorp? Could this same process not be just as effectively used by smaller geographically distributed facilities run separate orgs or corps?
- jacobr1 4y agoThat is plausible. It depends what you mean by "megacorp." If what we mean (in contrast to artisanal craftsmanship) is just industrial scale operations - then yes, we certainly can organize industrialization differently than megacorps. Smaller sized corps, State-owned enterprises, co-ops, federated mutualism, and more, are all possibilities. But if the suggestion is that we could support modern population levels with just traditional production methods - that probably is unlikely. To steelman the argument, maybe proponent could suggest something like advanced permaculture. I'm skeptical that would work, but something along those lines is a possibility.
- thisGuyFlicks 4y agoWhat's empirical about that though?