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643 points throwaway5752 | 2 comments | 05 Feb 25 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mplanchard ◴[05 Feb 25 16:43 UTC] No.42951168[source]▶
Fresh, local eggs have remained around the same price here. While more expensive than eggs from large producers in normal times, they are now often cheaper.

This is a great reminder of how important it is to support local farmers and small operations, which increase the resilience of the system as a whole.

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afavour ◴[05 Feb 25 16:54 UTC] No.42951379[source]▶
This is also a great defense against something like bird flu. When you centralize operations a disease can spread through a population like wildfire. When it's a number of smaller, separate operations the impact is lessened.
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SketchySeaBeast ◴[05 Feb 25 16:58 UTC] No.42951470[source]▶
Really raises the question - should vital infrastructure, like food production, be built in an attempt to maximize profit or resiliency? Have things swung too far in one direction?
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financetechbro ◴[05 Feb 25 17:03 UTC] No.42951584[source]▶
Feels like we’ve swung exceedingly far. Our drive to capture efficiencies through economies of scale make us very vulnerable to systematic disruption
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1. Karellen ◴[05 Feb 25 17:12 UTC] No.42951737[source]▶
> Our drive to capture efficiencies through economies of scale

Is that what's happened here? It looks to me more like the billionaire/PE class's drive to capture rents through monopolies is a more accurate lens to view the situation through. Especially as it's the trope namer for chickenization

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chickenization

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenize...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chickenization&ia=web

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2. graemep ◴[05 Feb 25 17:22 UTC] No.42951918[source]▶
I think both are true.

It also goes far beyond farming - it applies to many supply chains.