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Re:Our restaurants are failing. Why should food delivery app... by MattGaiser on Saturday May 16, 2020 @12:40PM (#23204957)
> it's the job of the government to take over and make them

And how that usually works is that the government offers to pay a very high price to someone willing to doing so.

This isn't all that different as the government then pays 5x for the item.

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Re:Our restaurants are failing. Why should food delivery app... by jimktrains2 on Saturday May 16, 2020 @12:55PM (#23205081)
It need not be a high unit price, often a sufficiently large order could do the same as well.
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Re:Our restaurants are failing. Why should food delivery app... by MattGaiser on Saturday May 16, 2020 @12:59PM (#23205110)
Depends on the timeframe. If you want 5 million masks next week and each machine produces 1 million a week, you need 5 machines. If you can wait 5 weeks, then one machine will do.

But yes, this certainly could be true.

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