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Farmer-Rick

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30. Or had back up production

Reply to Skittles (Reply #5)

Wed Oct 13, 2021, 10:46 AM

Oct 2021

As a nation we could have smaller factories strategically placed throughout the US to provide back up. They could be quickly expanded in case of emergencies.

It's one of the reasons monopolies are so destructive and why compitition is encouraged by capitalists. Compitition and monopoly free markets usually have a lot of redundancy with many businesses providing the same services or products.
So, if one business suffers the other businesses can step in.

Unless you remove the function of manufacturing or farming or energy production totally from your country. Then this happens.

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