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Re:Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 6... by Cerium on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:44AM (#25633813)
Fragile, yes, but also beautiful. The Chinese "single product city" is something of a free-market wonder. I visited Dehua (a ceramics city) and spent the time fascinated at how anything related to ceramics production is cheap in that city. It is no one individual factory that achieves economy of scale, but rather the full city, and everyone in it benefits. Small producers can achieve globally competitive pricing on their goods without having to take delivery of truckloads of input materials.
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Re:Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 6... by bobthepanda on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:34PM (#25634831)
This works really really well until it really really doesn't. There's a reason why these towns don't exist in the West anymore, Detroit being the biggest example (though they got out of their predicament by trying to diversify).
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Re:Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 6... by maxerickson on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:54PM (#25635181)
There's still a pretty huge concentration of automakers and suppliers in the greater Detroit area.
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Re:Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 6... by bobthepanda on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:59PM (#25635252)
Hence the keyword "trying".
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Re:Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 6... by maxerickson on Monday January 04, 2021 @01:04PM (#25635331)
When I started composing my reply, your comment read "This works really really well until it really really doesn't. There's a reason why these towns don't exist in the West anymore, Detroit being the biggest example."

Perhaps our edits overlapped.

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Re:Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 6... by afandian on Monday January 04, 2021 @01:08PM (#25635402)
Reminds me of Tula, the Russian city where a huge number of accordions were made. I'm not sure if it was dictated by the Soviet government or whether it happened organically, but I'm not sure it was due to a free market.
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Re:Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 6... by mynegation on Monday January 04, 2021 @04:36PM (#25638476)
If anything, Tula is famous for metalworking, weapons, and gingerbread before anything else.
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Re:Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 6... by retSava on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @04:35AM (#25643770)
weapons and gingerbread, now there's a combination that tickles the mind :)
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Re:Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 6... by afandian on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @04:36AM (#25643779)
I'll take the accordions thanks.
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Re:Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 6... by jelliclesfarm on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:01AM (#25643907)
Beautiful samovars.
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Re:Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 6... by fermienrico on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:55PM (#25635189)
There is nothing beautiful about this I see.
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