• BilSabab@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    my country went through it - i don’t remember energy shortages but the food shortages were real. That systemic mismanagement over decades with fudged performance figures up and down piled up so high it’s a miracle things weren’t worse. Took a solid decade just to clean this mess

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      6 hours ago

      Many such cases!! It’s pretty well studied ant this point. We designed the world economy around food security for the last 80 years. It was a tragically flawed system and was slowly perverted, but the rapid destruction of these supply chains is certainly not going to end well for some.

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        4 hours ago

        there is also an issue with the scope of the whole system. it is way too big and too tangled to function smoothly.