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From the New York Post:
Cuomo slammed by justice group over hand sanitizer made using ‘slave labor’
By Tina Moore March 9, 2020 | 5:39pmA prison reform group lashed out at Gov. Andrew Cuomo Monday for using prison workers to produce hand sanitizer.
The Legal Aid society sent out an email condemning Cuomo for “exploiting incarcerated New Yorkers to produce cheap hand sanitizers.”
“This is nothing less than slave labor and it must end,” the group said. …
The statement came in response to Cuomo’s new Corcraft COVID-19 branded hand sanitizer, which will be produced by people who are incarcerated in New York.
The statement went on to state that prisons and jails could ironically deem the product “contraband.”
“It would be even more shocking if prisons and jails were to deem this Corcraft product ‘contraband’ and deprive incarcerated New Yorkers from possessing effective hand sanitizer because of the alcohol content,” the missive said. “The same individuals who produce this product should not be prohibited from using it.”
Cuomo unveiled Monday that the state’s prison inmates would produce a new hand sanitizer that would help prevent price gouging.
“It’s much cheaper for us to make it ourselves than to buy it on the open market,” said Cuomo, adding that a gallon jug of the state-produced product costs $6 to make.
It has a “floral bouquet,” the governor added.
I must say, this strikes me as one of the more enterprising responses by any of America’s leaders.
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Guests of the Illinois DoC used to pick up litter on the shoulders of state roads but that was deemed torture or cruel or whatever. Now the state pays Illinois DoT employees 37 dollars an hour to do it. This very time of year, IDOT authorizes its employees to pick up highway litter on overtime, which is time and a half ($55.50 per hour). Meanwhile, inmates are instead given lifting weights, TV, internet, books, and who knows what else.
This is the cost of Jewish activism and elitist white altruism.
Is this article from the Babylon Bee? How come I have never heard of this “Corcraft” brand hand sanitizer? When did it come on the market? How much does it sell for?
“It’s much cheaper for us to make it ourselves than to buy it on the open market,” said Cuomo.
Well yeah, a product tends to be cheaper when you don’t have to pay the people who make it.
Good for Cuomo. He’s putting those prisoners to better use than anything else they could possibly do right now.
So, will the NY legislature stop this effort?
“Just spreadin some a dis here sanitizer boss”.
“Go on and spread it dere Dragline”
It feels so cool on my hands.
What the hell are these protesters complaining about? How does mixing alcohol and soap any worse job than making license plates or uniforms? If anything, it is fairly simple and easy work. Not even as difficult as making coffee (no heat involved).
Sanitiser’s just around 63% industrial methylated spirits (which is about 95% ethanol, 4% methanol and something bitter to stop people drinking it) with perfume and gelling agent. Not hi-tech at all.
But it’s vanished from shop shelves in the UK, and in France large consignments (along with gloves and masks) have been stolen from hospitals.
"France: From Coco Chanel to Corona-Chan Hell"
Geez, you’d think it was the Mittelwerk hand sanitizer factory. Hey, maybe the prisoners can be worked to death developing a vaccine!
Cuomo is a freakin disaster. With him signing a bill to free most criminals without bail is down right stupid. He also wants to get rid of ICE. We really need term limits in NYS. This sfacim could end up serving a 4th term now that democrats have a lock on the state. We really need a good, popular, charasmatic republican to run against him.
Good luck getting a Republican governor in New York. In the last forty-five years, you've had one. Pataki. Even California has done better than this.
You wouldn’t expect so much common sense out of a major political leader, especially a Democrat.
Cuomo is just laughably bad at "woke" politics. He is generally despised by elite Manhattanites as kind of embarrassing which makes him slightly endearing to me.
https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/825819936371142656
Lies, damn lies etc.
Constant drumbeat of “avg influenza” death rate as a comparison to Wuhan death rate is bs. Why not compare the rate of bad influenza years not the average year? Influenza mortality swings wildly year to year. The Wuhan virus is supposedly bad so why not compare bad to bad?
The reason is you can’t generate the scary death rate multiple in the math for effective PROJECT FEAR headlines.
The country as a whole doesn’t even notice the difference between bad flu years and not so bad years. Sheesh, my doomz.
He’s planning to roll out a line of fine, artisanal pruno to prevent price gouging by the vineyards in the Finger Lakes.
Prisoner’s do pro-social work in the past have helped them with parole. Think Forest fighting prisoners.
Put the Legal Aid Society on a boat and mine the harbors.
It’s a better than average idea as long as NY state can:
— Obtain the ingredients & packaging at a reasonable cost.
— Sell the product at a ‘generic’ market price.
NYS will earn some profit that can be used to defray prison expenses.
PEACE 😇
Imagine the other products that could be produced with $0.00 labor cost factored in.
There must be boatloads of hair care products for
blackAfrican-American women that could be produced that are not more difficult…In general, prison labor is an underutilized asset in the US. Industry doesn’t like competition from government with low labor costs (prisoners make pennies per hour) and leftists/unions don’t like the competition either. So the prisoners spend their time in the gym instead, getting REAL fit for when they get out.
In response to the bad faith "slave labor" claim, I've long suggested paying cons market rate wages for the value of their labor (which would be pretty low in most cases)... but then charging them what market rates would be for their room and board, food, medical care, security, and so forth. Add restitution to their victims, fines, court costs, child support, etc. If they come away with a pittance to keep for themselves at the end of the month... they'll be exactly as bad off as most of us working stiffs are in the "free" world anyway. And we didn't break the law.
Baby Mario is a dreadful governor but he’s right about this.
In Hubei the big COVID-19 related logistical problem that could be solved by industrious prisoners was/is a lack of body bags.
We could accelerate the vaccine approval process by offering prisoners time off their sentence to participate in the clinical trial.
The video of Cuomo’s announcement is funny.
https://twitter.com/breaking911/status/1237097450168516612?s=21
That's more than any Republican has done to the Big Tech platforms which deplatform us.
Otoh, Gojo (Purell) is a Northeast Ohio area company, I am displeased to see them criticized.
it would encourage new (and possibly regional, local) producers to bring the stuff to market.
in my area of the US hand sanitizer had been sold out for about three weeks.
Communist babykiller uses slave labor from the gulags, film at 11.
So did the prison system just happen to have hand sanitizer production/packaging equipment laying about?
Prisoners in every state make stuff and do services. Basically every low level state employee in the USA sits on prison-made chairs.
https://www.iaprisonind.com/
https://www.govce.net/
https://www.washingtonci.com/
I don’t know. If Cuomo puts these prisoners to work, when will they find time to file frivolous lawsuits? Won’t justice itself ultimately suffer?
WTF?? Since the outbreak began in December 2019 a total of 26 people have died in the U.S. and <4k worldwide. More people have died in the last month from spider bites than have died from COVID-19 in the last quarter year. But whatever, WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE FROM COVID-19!!!
The spider bite number is basically not going to change. (If it starts radically increasing then you'll here about it.)
If Covid-19 only continues to do what it's done so far ... no problem! Great! 10x or 100x or 1000X what it's done so far--no problem.
But the worry is, of course, that Covid-19 is a disease that seems to be at least 10X as lethal as the flu, that appears to be at least reasonably contagious and for which--at present--there is essentially zero herd immunity. To the numerate that means it can become a big problem. And so we want to take steps to quash that, mitigate it by slowing it down, work on a vaccine, etc.
Prisoners should be forced to earn their keep to take the burden off the taxpayer. Taxpayers suffer from criminals when the latter are roaming around outside jail, and taxpayers still suffer by having to pay for the bastards when they’re locked up inside jail.
Criminals are a total negative drag on society. Either kill them or make them work to support themselves.
Gangsta.
It’s like when Bob Gunton as the warden in Shawshank takes bribes from the contractors he’s undercutting with his prison labor.
Cuomo is a total guido thug, but in this instance he’s our guido thug. He also consistently takes the piss out of De Blasio.
Btw, my friend Curveball told me this COVID-19 will be worse than sarin gas yellow cake pulled from incubators!
https://twitter.com/breaking911/status/1237097450168516612?s=21Replies: @216, @vhrm
He’s shooting a shot over the bow at two billionaires, Bezos and Omidyar.
That’s more than any Republican has done to the Big Tech platforms which deplatform us.
Otoh, Gojo (Purell) is a Northeast Ohio area company, I am displeased to see them criticized.
https://twitter.com/breaking911/status/1237097450168516612?s=21Replies: @216, @vhrm
in with the econ 101 price gouging for this product right now would be fine.
it would encourage new (and possibly regional, local) producers to bring the stuff to market.
in my area of the US hand sanitizer had been sold out for about three weeks.
Had a GOP governor done this, wouldn’t Cuomo’s condemnations have been among the loudest?
Agree. And how you know it isn’t a real crisis is that there’s a lefty group trying to use and get publicity off the event.
Short-sighted response. Prisoners are prisoners b/c acts bad for society. Making hand sanitizer is good for all. COVID19 will make it into the prison, and then the inmates will have all the sanitizer they need.
YouTube will cancel that channel by 10pm.
It’s a strategy which literally could have come from Justin “Man of a Thousand Faces” Trudeau. If noisy panickers (who mysteriously also want open borders and who are against quarantines) don’t panic noisily, Trump wins.
We white males still got it in us after all. Even Gavin Newsom, the California governor, has done an admirable job, mostly — even talked Donald Trump out of making a fool of himself with that plague ship (he wanted to leave them there, ensuring hundreds or even thousands of infected patients and maybe 85 – 100 deaths). Sort of happy to see that even if they are on the opposite side of the political spectrum. Other governors should copy and perhaps see if they can’t put people to work making hospital beds, etc. in exchange for some minor clemency guarantee.
Cuomo is not so bad. At heart, he just wants to be a corrupt ethnic democratic machine politician of the old school. His real interest is in building big infrastructure projects which I support. The problem is that his spending is so profligate that the state will be in serious trouble in an economic downturn.
Cuomo is just laughably bad at “woke” politics. He is generally despised by elite Manhattanites as kind of embarrassing which makes him slightly endearing to me.
Prisoners used to be used in clinical trials frequently in the past. Not anymore, because it was ruled that the prisoners didn’t have a real choice in the matter.
If I was a prisoner I’d be happy to do something positive for society and my understanding is prison is extremely boring. I would assume many prisoners would feel happy to do this stuff
There must be boatloads of hair care products for
blackAfrican-American women that could be produced that are not more difficult...Replies: @vhrmBefore this started Walgreens was selling the quart sized pump bottles for $5 at retail. so $20/gal.
is $6/gal bulk cost at the prison loading dock even competitive with industry.
It’s funny how despite all our diversity, the only innovative solution is coming from a boring, not-really-minority-anymore mainline politician.
And what does the GOP suggest? Tax cuts! It’s their version of the Democrats RACISM!
The solution to the first source of opposition would be something like the old convict-leasing system, under which industry could get access to cheap prison labor.
In response to the bad faith “slave labor” claim, I’ve long suggested paying cons market rate wages for the value of their labor (which would be pretty low in most cases)… but then charging them what market rates would be for their room and board, food, medical care, security, and so forth. Add restitution to their victims, fines, court costs, child support, etc. If they come away with a pittance to keep for themselves at the end of the month… they’ll be exactly as bad off as most of us working stiffs are in the “free” world anyway. And we didn’t break the law.
Lots of laughs.
Well yeah, what with society turning ‘em to crime and everything.
Put the Legal Aid Society on a boat and mine the harbors.Replies: @Redneck farmer
No, there needs to be a tragic accident before they reach the boat.
It’s amusing to me when open-borders types ask where states like California and Texas with large agricultural economies will get the labor to harvest their lettuce, but ignore those states’ large reservoirs of convicts who pump iron and convert to Islam. It seems we have to import brown people to work so that blacks can merely work out.
It shouldn’t be necessary to point out that the 13th amendment makes a specific allowance for slavery for punishment for crimes.
Nice passive voice.
FIFY
So far, the disease has been spreading among the privileged and well-to-do. There haven’t been any outbreaks in jails – yet.
I must be getting old. I can remember all the way back to 2014 and that PBS series about prison labor, “Slavery by Another Name”. That was just at the beginning of the Late Obama Age Collapse, before the political electromagnetic spectrum underwent the great orange shift, which resulted in true liberal political positions suddenly becoming visible to the naked eye.
A payroll tax cut, which is a position usually advocated by Democrats.
Many commercially available hand sanitizers don’t have the 60% level of alcohol needed to effectively kill off germs.
Many are just a combination of aloe-vera or other gelling agents, mixed with frou-frou ingredients such as lavender oil.
They are completely useless as any kind of substitute for proper hand washing.
In the US i think "hand sanitizer" is a regulated term and the FDA controls what can be sold using it.Replies: @PiltdownMan
Commercially available where? In the US i haven’t seen these. (though it IS true of many DIY recipes i saw on the web).
In the US i think “hand sanitizer” is a regulated term and the FDA controls what can be sold using it.
Your post made me go and rummage through the stuff on our dresser. Two bottles bought in the greater Washington DC area, I think, though one might be a free sample PiltdownWoman got on an international trip or conference. Neither seems to have a 60% alcohol content specifically labeled, though they might have that amount.
I googled a bit, and I think the FDA is still evaluating the effectiveness of ingredients (including alcohol) but issued a final rule last April that rules out the use of most ingredients. It's possible the samples in our house are from before then.
I don't use the stuff. I wash my hands often, though not with Howard Hughes levels of obsession.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/04/12/2019-06791/safety-and-effectiveness-of-consumer-antiseptic-rubs-topical-antimicrobial-drug-products-forReplies: @vhrm
I’m no fan of Cuomo, but he should tell his critics to go bugger themselves.
Few of us have ever said that the Repub pols and donors were good guys. Mr Trump saw that the Repub Party was a potential vehicle to launch a sort of, more-or-less America First party
In the US i think "hand sanitizer" is a regulated term and the FDA controls what can be sold using it.Replies: @PiltdownMan
That’s a very good question; I hadn’t thought of that. Thanks!
Your post made me go and rummage through the stuff on our dresser. Two bottles bought in the greater Washington DC area, I think, though one might be a free sample PiltdownWoman got on an international trip or conference. Neither seems to have a 60% alcohol content specifically labeled, though they might have that amount.
I googled a bit, and I think the FDA is still evaluating the effectiveness of ingredients (including alcohol) but issued a final rule last April that rules out the use of most ingredients. It’s possible the samples in our house are from before then.
I don’t use the stuff. I wash my hands often, though not with Howard Hughes levels of obsession.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/04/12/2019-06791/safety-and-effectiveness-of-consumer-antiseptic-rubs-topical-antimicrobial-drug-products-for
Many of the same chemicals banned for use as OTC hand-rub (daily, chronic use) are still ok to use for pre-op skin disinfection on the argument that people don't have surgery daily.
(see this other rule... there's a table some way down)
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/05/01/2015-10174/safety-and-effectiveness-of-health-care-antiseptics-topical-antimicrobial-drug-products-for
Of course neither of these addresses the "add a few drops of essential oils because it has antimicrobial properties and it smells great!" type products (which is what the DIY recipes tend to do) (although Tea Tree oil IS listed (and not approved as GRAS for this purpose))
Numeracy is a good thing. But it does not mean comparing two numbers and yelling “no problem”.
The spider bite number is basically not going to change. (If it starts radically increasing then you’ll here about it.)
If Covid-19 only continues to do what it’s done so far … no problem! Great! 10x or 100x or 1000X what it’s done so far–no problem.
But the worry is, of course, that Covid-19 is a disease that seems to be at least 10X as lethal as the flu, that appears to be at least reasonably contagious and for which–at present–there is essentially zero herd immunity. To the numerate that means it can become a big problem. And so we want to take steps to quash that, mitigate it by slowing it down, work on a vaccine, etc.
I’m sure Cuomo is bad news. But he’s right on this issue.
Good luck getting a Republican governor in New York. In the last forty-five years, you’ve had one. Pataki. Even California has done better than this.
Mario Cuomo was The Sfaccim. Andrew is the Son of Sfaccim.
Incidentally, there has been a whole dispute over whether the term sfaccim was vulgar or not. The late, much-lamented Bob Grant (The King of Talk Radio) insisted that it was not.
The conflicting views may perhaps be explained by regional linguistic differences. The legendary Frank from Queens (perhaps Bob Grant’s single most famous/infamous/celebrated/denounced caller) ascribed the kah-fone vs. gah-vone pronunciation discrepancy for the word caffon to such regional differences.
Were you ever inducted into the Bob Grant Horny Brigade?
(No, it had nothing to do with one’s libido, as Bob himself also hastened to note…)
Your post made me go and rummage through the stuff on our dresser. Two bottles bought in the greater Washington DC area, I think, though one might be a free sample PiltdownWoman got on an international trip or conference. Neither seems to have a 60% alcohol content specifically labeled, though they might have that amount.
I googled a bit, and I think the FDA is still evaluating the effectiveness of ingredients (including alcohol) but issued a final rule last April that rules out the use of most ingredients. It's possible the samples in our house are from before then.
I don't use the stuff. I wash my hands often, though not with Howard Hughes levels of obsession.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/04/12/2019-06791/safety-and-effectiveness-of-consumer-antiseptic-rubs-topical-antimicrobial-drug-products-forReplies: @vhrm
Yeah. one thing to note, as the document details, the chemical stuff that was banned was banned mostly on procedural grounds of “we never approved this” and with further justification of we don’t have studies that prove that this is safe long term, and that it won’t cause resistance when used a lot (<- that was the big concern with triclosan in hand-soap some years back).
Many of the same chemicals banned for use as OTC hand-rub (daily, chronic use) are still ok to use for pre-op skin disinfection on the argument that people don't have surgery daily.
(see this other rule… there's a table some way down)
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/05/01/2015-10174/safety-and-effectiveness-of-health-care-antiseptics-topical-antimicrobial-drug-products-for
Of course neither of these addresses the "add a few drops of essential oils because it has antimicrobial properties and it smells great!" type products (which is what the DIY recipes tend to do) (although Tea Tree oil IS listed (and not approved as GRAS for this purpose))
Through their behavior criminals force the rest of society to work to support them — at considerable expense — due to the adverse consequences of letting the criminals run free. In that sense, one can argue that those who pay taxes are forced to support the non-productive, and are thus enslaved.
The incarcerated should have the option of declining work, but only under conditions of reduced privileges. Those who work have no need of recreation; recreation is meant to refresh you after a period of labor. They don’t need access to the weight room; they will have plenty of time in their cells to do push ups, sit ups, and whatever else gets them through the day. No TV room, no card playing in the common areas, no early release, no halfway house, etc.
The rest of society has to live under circumstances in which one’s work directly contributes to one’s standard of living. There’s no reason to exempt prisoners from this reality, which in many cases, they’ve spent the better part of their lives trying to avoid anyway.
I’ve also read that prison work programs tend to be pretty popular among prisoners as a diversion from the otherwise crushing boredom of being incarcerated with a bunch of idiots, con men, psychopaths, and paranoid psychotics. I would imagine that work is good for them psychologically, among other things.
If you thought that the Thirteenth Amendment, which was ratified in 1865, abolished slavery, you are wrong; it contains an escape clause: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, *except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,* shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
Less contrived, pearl-clutching outrage and a bit mire literacy by people who ought to know better would go a long way here.
If the governor wants to, he can have the bastards crochet cozies for his testicles – any work at all that is not cruel and unusual is fair game.
Gypsy King Free Enterprises!
“France: From Coco Chanel to Corona-Chan Hell”
Maybe my brain is warped from years living in Russia, but why wouldn’t the inmates just drink the alcohol? Doesn’t this task require a lot of supervision?
I’ve always heard stories that prisoners working in prison kitchens would often pee or masturbate into the food.
I don’t think I’d want to use hand sanitizer made by convicts.Replies: @prosa123
Thank you
I’ve always heard stories that prisoners working in prison kitchens would often pee or masturbate into the food.
I don’t think I’d want to use hand sanitizer made by convicts.
This is the cost of Jewish activism and elitist white altruism.Replies: @Magic Dirt Resident
We need to bring back chain gangs, have them build the wall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatured_alcohol
I think that by the time they bring the alcohol to the prison it has already been “denatured” by the addition of a bittering agent to make it unpalatable. But prisoners might drink it anyway or figure out a way to redistill it or flavor it.
Since the end of Prohibition, the US has had fairly high taxes on beverage alcohol. So all producers of industrial alcohol must add a “denaturant” to the product before it leaves the distillery in order to avoid owing these taxes. If you owed these taxes then a bottle of hand sanitizer would cost as much as (or more than, since the alcohol content is higher) a bottle of vodka (for low end vodka, the tax is the biggest expense). The chemical used varies according to the intended us of the alcohol – for motor fuel they add a little gasoline, for other uses they add methanol but since methanol gets absorbed thru the skin and is poisonous, for hand sanitizer they use generally use a very bitter chemical such as denatonium, which is the most bitter chemical known – dilutions of as little as 10 ppm are unbearably bitter to most humans. Denatonium is not toxic in such low concentrations, it is just very bitter tasting and since your skin has no taste receptors it doesn’t impair the intended use of the product.
I bought some hand sanitizer online, but it’s horribly overpriced when available, so I went to the drug store and bought a few bottles of isopropyl alcohol which is still cheap. Don’t bother trying to make hand sanitizer. Just use the alcohol straight, then follow immediately with Lubriderm. You can also use this method with the lower alcohol content vodka, of which I have a whole bunch. Vodka is only 40% so you have to apply more of it for a longer period of time, but it will work.
Oh, yes, vodka has one advantage: You can gargle with it. (Don’t swallow.)
I’ve always heard stories that prisoners working in prison kitchens would often pee or masturbate into the food.
I don’t think I’d want to use hand sanitizer made by convicts.Replies: @prosa123
A number of years ago the guards at the Connecticut state prison had spaghetti with meat sauce for lunch, only to find out soon after that a prisoner working in the kitchen had taken a dump in the meat sauce.
“Go on and spread it dere Dragline”
It feels so cool on my hands.Replies: @Mark in BC
I can eat 50 eggs…
Yeah, but I’m pretty certain that he didn’t think of it.
Jews in Israel delighted that the number 1 name in the UK is Muhammad
So we want it to be the most popular name in the United Kingdom
There should be lots of Mohammed’s in Britain, in Sweden, in France!
Not here! Not here! That’s what we want!
https://twitter.com/BaronStrucker/status/1236913428507361280
I know it sounds hackneyed but Grant was an American original and a radio pioneer. Curtis Sliwa carries on the Cuomo sfacim bit. Also calls him Andrew “Evil Eyes” Cuomo.
I’m making up numbers for the example, but It seems to me that if a bottle of hand sanitizer that normally sells for five bucks now would sell for twenty, and in a month would sell for 50. Today they might sell out at five, because they aren’t allowed to gouge. If sellers were allowed to gouge consumers by charging a market clearing price, then it would be worth Wal Mart’s costs to have warehouses full of hand sanitizer.
Then next crisis hits, and maybe the supply and demand curves intersect at 10 bucks a bottle, and a lot more people get hand sanitizer and producers, distributors and retailers that had the supply available would make a good profit, and just in time manufacturers, and lean retailers would miss out.
Don’t we want to have enough goods available to weather crises? Why is living at the edge so popular these days, across businesses, institutions, and individuals? Isn’t having some cushion a good thing?
Personally, I blame MBAs, immigration, and deindustrialization immiserating almost everyone. OTOH, those are the things I blame for most every problem.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_manufacturing
zero inventory. zero stores of feedstocks etc.
It lowers overhead and waste... it's also brittle AF and any disruption cascades through the whole supply-chain (or web).
To be fair it's easy to be all "get off my lawn!" about this stuff (and i am)... but like with organic stuff or climate change etc corporations won't pay for resilience unless someone makes them (be it consumers or governments)
Then next crisis hits, and maybe the supply and demand curves intersect at 10 bucks a bottle, and a lot more people get hand sanitizer and producers, distributors and retailers that had the supply available would make a good profit, and just in time manufacturers, and lean retailers would miss out.
Don’t we want to have enough goods available to weather crises? Why is living at the edge so popular these days, across businesses, institutions, and individuals? Isn’t having some cushion a good thing?
Personally, I blame MBAs, immigration, and deindustrialization immiserating almost everyone. OTOH, those are the things I blame for most every problem.Replies: @vhrm
It’s the MBAs and the “just in time” manufacturing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_manufacturing
zero inventory. zero stores of feedstocks etc.
It lowers overhead and waste… it’s also brittle AF and any disruption cascades through the whole supply-chain (or web).
To be fair it’s easy to be all “get off my lawn!” about this stuff (and i am)… but like with organic stuff or climate change etc corporations won’t pay for resilience unless someone makes them (be it consumers or governments)