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by TrispusAttucks 1747 days ago
I was contemplating the shortages the other night while sitting around a fire.

It hit me that the problem is the whole global system is now just one big Just-In-Time (JIT) system built from smaller JIT units of industry which is a collection of yet more JIT factories.

It's JIT all the way down!

And JIT doesn't work well when the spice isn't continuously flowing.