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Those same East Coast locations are very much high risk for flooding as well as blizzards. There is always some hazard--that's not the real issue. The issue i
by bsder 3y ago
Those same East Coast locations are very much high risk for flooding as well as blizzards. There is always some hazard--that's not the real issue.
The issue is that Always Late Inventory(tm) has made it such that there is zero resiliency and zero inventory in the system.
Consequently, a single event immediately puts you behind in such a way that it takes years to catch up. Because nobody can increase their production because everything is already tuned to be on the edge of their production capacity.
- tnecniv 3y agoNot to mention how many medications are patented. The patents do serve a purpose — taking a drug to market is both incredibly expensive and has a high failure rate, so a company needs a guarantee of some kind of return to take that chance. Maybe regulations requiring some level of redundancy for essential medication production provides a necessary middle ground. The return on such products will be slightly less, but if such a medication is so important, the revenue it generates is likely to still be large.