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Re:The Last Mustard Maker in Dijon by rcme on Monday January 30, 2023 @11:29AM (#34582063)
Megacorp scaling is all about economies of scale. The connection between economies of scale, lower cost, and high production are all well understood. We can fix more nitrogen, for less money, and produce more food.

Without megacorp scaling, we'd need to spend more money on the same amount of food. Is that possible? Or would a different equilibrium point have been reached? Say, 7 billion instead of 8?

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Re:The Last Mustard Maker in Dijon by LarryMullins on Monday January 30, 2023 @02:42PM (#34585307)
The contention presumably comes from the position of believing that all of these industrial processes and economies of scale could be implemented as well or better by a centralized command economy. You would think that the 20th century debunked such notions, but commies never learn... ...err I mean, true communism has never been tried!
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