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The US is building factories at a wildly fast rate (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] oiez@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

To extend your point, the fruit analogy assumes shipping is completely frictionless. In reality there are all kinds of downsides to shipping everything 12,000 miles across the world, both social and environmental. If you ship out 12 bananas and the cargo ship, train, or truck gets delayed, suddenly you have 0 bananas. Not to mention all the extra CO2, which the companies get to conveniently ignore.