Radical thought: The last mile should be designed for larger, durable household goods more than people. That’s how we get to a high-reuse consumer economies with low replenishment rates and slowest path to landfill.
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How does that relate to the slogan, “Localize production, virtualize everything else”?
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Are those large, durable household goods generally small-scale productive capital?
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I don’t buy that slogan. Almost all process industries should be relatively centralized.
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Anything producing industrial intermediates... plastics, metals, etc. Except for some last-stage light manufacturing/assembly, most things are more efficiently produced in large scale facilities which then by definition become non-local for most markets.
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