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by throwlaplace 2255 days ago
>Luckily, this kind of supply shock isn't possible with produce.

Vegetables have a longer shelf life than meat and grains a longer shelf life still. So you're just wrong.

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And you're still making the mistake of focusing on one particular facet of the economy. Whether it's meat or vegetables or surgical masks or electricity or water or what-have-you, the economy is vastly interconnected. The way that tugging on one piece of that network may cause failures in other areas is all but unknowable. It's just wrong to shrug off one particular shock saying that you're ok with an alternative. You have no way to know what's going to fail next.
Your lack of faith in the free market, is disturbing.