>> You realise the extent to which the world around is sometime quite precariously perched on these supply chains.

As s child, I lived in a world where there were no supply chains, no marketing and no advertising. Profit-based business was seen a mean thing to do.

City living and desire for goods from far away lands - created supply chains which dictate how people should live, in a precariously dependent way such that they can't make their needed things on their own and they can't have them made them locally. What a progress.

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Gigachad 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Unless you lived thousands of years ago, there was a supply chain. For bread there was a farmer, a miller, and a baker. That's a supply chain. And they were even more profit hungry back then, adulterating the flour with fillers to save money.

	▲	zkmon 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You assume that everyone eats bread, like most westerners do. The rural families a few decades ago in most Asian countries did not need millers, bakers or any other salesmen.

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eru 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Are you being sarcastic?

	▲	djmips 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They are not being sarcastic. My grandparents lived in a place like this - the old ways have been forgotten by most but in my family you only have to go back two generations before it's all pretty much living off the land...