It’s interesting how much people simply don’t understand distribution at scale.
News: Massive pile of food commodity needs to be destroyed
Them: Why can’t they just donate it to the needy and hungry?
Me: Uhhh, where do I begin?
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It’s not rocket science. Moving 60k pigs from Tennessee or a mountain of potatoes in Idaho to wherever the masses of hungry people are takes so many tricks/trains etc. It’s just mass/volume and distance/fuel type arithmetic problems.
Moral arithmetic is blind to logistics
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Sorry to be the gadfly but distribution is a political question. We could deploy the national guard to handle distribution. A military organization is a logistics institution. We are choosing a political (moral) path. We are single tracking the trolley problem.
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Sure we could. My point is most people don’t even seem to realize that it *is* a problem at all. You can’t have opinions on how to solve a problem you don’t even recognize as existing.
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Err if people don’t understand it maybe that’s because the system is stupid/counterintuitive? Rather than complain about people not getting stuff maybe it’s more productive to ask why they don’t? 🤷♂️
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He said “it’s interesting”, not “he hates these idiots”.
And it’s not about “counterintuitive”. It’s not like The Right Answer requires a subtle trick or insight.
If anyone with two brain cells simply thought about the actual problem, they’d realize it’s not so simple.
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or is it just what you have always known to be true but were unwilling to admit to yourself
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Some good news on that front I think?
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Two months ago it was about trying to explain exponential growth and logistic functions.
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