And I'm still laughing
Theres definitely a ceiling to how effective economies of scale can be. Huge plant operations are extremely bloated and unwieldy.
yea it has a limit but this guy is trying to invalidate the entire idea of economy of scale
It's like someone read about how there's a gradual decrease in the gains of economies of scale in terms of cost past a certain point (because of things like land constraints, limited labor pools, limited industrial capital, etc driving up costs eventually) and how in general the rate of profit also decreases in a sector the more commodities are produced in it overall (and as an aside this bit gets also misconstrued as monopolies being "mathematically sub-optimal" because of math errors, namely attributing all production under a monopoly to that monopoly but production in a "competitive market" to literally no one, when the reality is both cases are driven to under-produce to optimize profits), and then just ran with it as if you don't get efficiency increases up to a point with increasing scale until you start running into other limiting factors.
Perhaps "saw somewhere" or "heard someone say" would have been a more accurate way of putting it. Because it does seem like a garbled extrapolation/misinterpretation of an actual phenomenon, so I can't help but assume it grew from some half remembered bit of out-of-context discourse.
Black flag emoji twitter going off on one about economies of scale and making insulin in your bathtub.
It's really funny how twitter "anarchists" are just hyper-individualistic libertarian assholes who realized everyone hates libertarians.
You claim that economies of scale are false and large institutions simply exist to spy on people...
Yet you post on Twitter, rather than running a boutique Mastadon server with three other members.
I kinda get annoyed with the constant making fun of anarchists in general, and I think it's often kinda unfair, but damn internet anarchists really aren't making things easier for themselves are they.
A lot of twitter anarchists are basically just libertarians who are mad it's no longer cool to be a libertarian.
Wasn’t this the vision of Thomas Jefferson? No large scale industry, just independent farming and crafting, local and rural and all that Rousseau back-to-nature paradise — except when it comes to his slaves and plantations, of course. Big except
That’s why one of Mao’s most successful ideas was turning each household into a steel foundry.
seems like some anprim shit like trying to say its not at all ableist cuz you just distill insulin and hrt from horse piss or something?
Definition of cope
Also, if First Worldism was a tendency, these would be its representatives
