From what I've researched it seems (not 100% sure) like the term appeared first in discussions of transit ie. commutes between home & work, and then subsequently got applied to logistics/consumerism. There's probably some implicit associations to unpack within that evolution.
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Though the term does not appear in it, I trace the spirit of it to Herbert Spencer's Social Organism essay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_organism …
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Illuminating. You are using a global frame, but last mile refers to a user centric frame. Intriguing one can chisel out insights just by switching location vocab systems.
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Carse makes this point more poetically in his riff on waste as antiproperty. I'm trying to actually come up with good general engineering handles on it beyond specialized lifecycle analysis that only environmental engineers do.pic.twitter.com/55qD1ikO8B
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