Oddbean new post about login | logout @256de476 Even lots of technically very sophisticated people have not put 2+2 together on our deliberately-fragile JIT supply chains, and how badly they will hold up in the face of sustained climate disruptions.
@25664448 @256de476 in the late 1990s I worked at a factory that was transitioning to just in time materials. I was working in shipping and receiving and helped set up the Kanban system of materials supply. It originated in Japan and was all the rage. The fragility of such a system requires an extremely stable commercial network. That stable world that the #CorporateOligarchy relied upon has now succumbed to the inherent nature of #Capitalism.