This is a very important point, and often misunderstood on both a business & societal level. Reliability has a cost. If you optimize all redundancy out of a s

This is a very important point, and often misunderstood on both a business & societal level. Reliability has a cost. If you optimize all redundancy out of a system, you find that the system becomes brittle, unreliable, and prone to failure. Companies like 3M and Boeing have found that in the pursuit of higher profits, they've lost their focus on quality and suffer the resulting loss of trust and brand damage. The developed world discovered that with COVID, our just--in-time efficiency meant that any hiccup anywhere in the supply chain meant mass shortages of goods.