Now, in our late industrial mode, with hyperspecialization, the world is not super resistant to high death rates. Which means even small death rates can do a lot of damage. Especially in clustered breakouts which might take out key civilizational widgets.
Yeah that’s why there’s serious coercive pressure being applied on labor to return to work in meat industry for eg. They couldn’t handle serious absenteeism. Takes time to automate or backfill and meanwhile animals are still piling up as a slaughter backlog.
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y the meat industry is one of the most revealing + absurd parts of all this. this thread is super interesting: https://twitter.com/gnrosenberg/status/1254156882551472135 …
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whoops i pasted link from the middle, go to beginning if you're interested. there's labor all over the supply chain, not just the meatpacking plants ofc
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