This is why everyone is afraid of major sudden changes. We know that our industrial and commerce systems are nicely oiled to deliver constant outputs, and people like me are afraid that changing any part of it may trigger a cascade of bankruptcies of companies of a certain type, which in turn could provoke a famine somewhere else.

Imagine if all those grains stayed on their fields, it would trigger both parasites to develop where those fields are, corrupting entire valleys for years, while not either being able to feed the people they were aimed for. Which is the food equivalent of your car example.

If anything, the Covid proved to me that the world is much less oiled and tuned for some constant economic circuits than I feared. It is in fact quite reliable, if we don’t mention the debt we’ve put our children in.