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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governments exist to help manage this sort of logistics. when they functionally exist.
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Big caveat there.
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The meta thing behind it is, imo, many people just can't intuit Scale
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oh yeah? Educate me
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All that food was being wasted before, one back alley Domino’s dumpster at a time. And even then there was not the moral-logistical will to give it to people who might need it.
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Gas is cheap. Feed the hungry, save the farmer, and the oilman.
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Air drop the potatoes, oil is free
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As usual Boorstin has the best socio-economic history of how this came to be. His story of meat is contained within a Book 2 in the Democratic Experience called "The Decline of the Miraculous." A clue perhaps in that name of why people don't understand it...pic.twitter.com/XbaQxKOtdv
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This is where the argument for totalitarianism is founded (not that I think it’s the best system). Wave a wand and mobilize the military to prop up/replace weakened supply lines, as needed, without any regulatory or political push-back. Fast, unchecked action has its place.
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this blindness to logistics also helps explain moral panics about surge pricing, price "gouging" and the like
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