Comment by znnajdla
3 hours ago
> This is equivalent to investing capital at a negative interest rate, so it’s not done anymore.
Stupidity of financializing everything. There’s no amount of money in the world that can quantify the safety of having critical items like food in supply. You can’t eat money. If everyone builds “just in time” supply chains the world collapses after a single shock.
Yes but think of the shareholders! And that doesn’t show up nicely on a spreadsheet does it?