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What if people could have large residential storage units in their neighborhoods and apartment complexes, where everyone could stock up on their own personal su

What if people could have large residential storage units in their neighborhoods and apartment complexes, where everyone could stock up on their own personal supply as needed?

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bauruine 1y ago
Or even better we could build cupboards in the aparments and people just keep their personal supply. /s All my shelf stable products have been in my pantry for a few months before I even open them. You can do FILO yourself and have always a nice emergency supply and it can even cheaper because you can buy the stuff on sale most of the time. The problem is that many people just buy day to day and already have a problem when the shops are closed for a holiday they haven't anticipated because they buy just in time.
- Razengan 1y ago
  > Or even better we could build cupboards in the aparments and people just keep their personal supply. Hate having to annotate explanations to obvious things but I guess it wasn't obvious: Stock up for the next few months. (after paying for it) If they don't need/use it, it gets redistributed. (from the local shared storage unit)
  - bauruine 1y ago
    I'm sorry but it really wasn't obvious for me. So like an online shop for groceries but they don't deliver it to your home but at this shared storage location? Doesn't realy change the second part of my answer though. People could already keep some stock at home right now but most just don't. I don't see how such a shared storage would change that. Also stock up for a few months is what the government is for at least where I live. [0] Personel emergency supplies are only for the time till the government can start distributing their own stocks. [0]: https://www.bwl.admin.ch/en/we-advise-emergency-supplies https://www.bwl.admin.ch/en/we-advise-emergency-supplies
lm28469 1y ago
90% of people won't do it
- walthamstow 1y ago
  They will in small countries with high trust and community, near to Russia and currently or formerly having national service. In fat, lazy, individualist countries like the UK and US? No way.
  - guappa 1y ago
    Source for this obviously false statement?
    - walthamstow 1y ago
      Did the guy above source their made-up number? For the positive, see Finland, which is working hard to be a very well-prepared nation. Heavy buy-in from all across the populace. Exactly the kind of nation I was talking about - their survival depends on it. Poland, Sweden, Denmark all doing similar. For the negative, see UK and US during COVID. The individualism that has underpinned society since Thatcher/Reagan as made us less likely be prepared, less likely to look out for our neighbour. Both are isolated by water, so we're naturally less bothered about invasion.
      - guappa 1y ago
        I live in sweden and I can tell you that over here it's all idle talk, nothing and nobody is prepared for anything at all. And the only ones who do buy-in are gun lovers and preppers, which are not a major demographic.
        walthamstow 1y ago
        But if the time came, would you trust your neighbour to do the right thing? Sweden is a high-trust society based on friends in London and from visits there, especially outside Stockholm. The UK and US are definitely not. I thought I had read that Sweden had made some changes to military service recently, is that not true?

What if people could have large residential storage units in their neighborhoods and apartment complexes, where everyone could stock up on their own personal supply as needed?

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bauruine 1y ago

Or even better we could build cupboards in the aparments and people just keep their personal supply. /s All my shelf stable products have been in my pantry for a few months before I even open them. You can do FILO yourself and have always a nice emergency supply and it can even cheaper because you can buy the stuff on sale most of the time. The problem is that many people just buy day to day and already have a problem when the shops are closed for a holiday they haven't anticipated because they buy just in time.

Razengan 1y ago
> Or even better we could build cupboards in the aparments and people just keep their personal supply. Hate having to annotate explanations to obvious things but I guess it wasn't obvious: Stock up for the next few months. (after paying for it) If they don't need/use it, it gets redistributed. (from the local shared storage unit)
- bauruine 1y ago
  I'm sorry but it really wasn't obvious for me. So like an online shop for groceries but they don't deliver it to your home but at this shared storage location? Doesn't realy change the second part of my answer though. People could already keep some stock at home right now but most just don't. I don't see how such a shared storage would change that. Also stock up for a few months is what the government is for at least where I live. [0] Personel emergency supplies are only for the time till the government can start distributing their own stocks. [0]: https://www.bwl.admin.ch/en/we-advise-emergency-supplies https://www.bwl.admin.ch/en/we-advise-emergency-supplies

lm28469 1y ago

90% of people won't do it

walthamstow 1y ago
They will in small countries with high trust and community, near to Russia and currently or formerly having national service. In fat, lazy, individualist countries like the UK and US? No way.
- guappa 1y ago
  Source for this obviously false statement?
  - walthamstow 1y ago
    Did the guy above source their made-up number? For the positive, see Finland, which is working hard to be a very well-prepared nation. Heavy buy-in from all across the populace. Exactly the kind of nation I was talking about - their survival depends on it. Poland, Sweden, Denmark all doing similar. For the negative, see UK and US during COVID. The individualism that has underpinned society since Thatcher/Reagan as made us less likely be prepared, less likely to look out for our neighbour. Both are isolated by water, so we're naturally less bothered about invasion.
    - guappa 1y ago
      I live in sweden and I can tell you that over here it's all idle talk, nothing and nobody is prepared for anything at all. And the only ones who do buy-in are gun lovers and preppers, which are not a major demographic.
      - walthamstow 1y ago
        But if the time came, would you trust your neighbour to do the right thing? Sweden is a high-trust society based on friends in London and from visits there, especially outside Stockholm. The UK and US are definitely not. I thought I had read that Sweden had made some changes to military service recently, is that not true?