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A comment on Ask HN: Post Covid-19 will present many opportunities. What might they be?.

Re:Ask HN: Post Covid-19 will present many opportunities. Wh... by FlyMoreRockets on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @06:28PM (#22940014)
"Distributed" will become a new buzzword. Nothing like breaking a fragile JIT supply chain to drive this point home.

Whole new markets will arise providing middleware to help suppliers, shippers, warehouses and sellers find each other and ensure degrees of separation.

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Re:Ask HN: Post Covid-19 will present many opportunities. Wh... by buboard on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @06:39PM (#22940094)
the supplies that are missing cost on the order of billions. countries may stock them up periodically, but i doubt they 'll redistribute supply chains. It would take a generational change for people to accept to go back at manufacturing jobs. People of today aren't even trained for that, they ll keep seeking knowledge jobs.
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