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This is a ridiculously myopic view of the world. A more efficient economy supports more people. This is inarguable.

A more efficient economy may also be more vulnerable. Food produced closer to home, with decentralised supply chains, may be more expensive, but are harder to disrupt on a large scale in the face of disaster.

So your solution is to, what, kill people until a less efficient economy works again?

I have no idea where you'd possibly get such a bizarre idea.

For one thing, I'm not offering a solution here, but an analysis. But if you want a solution, mine would be to save as many lives and reorganize the economy so less lives will be risked in the name of short-term profits.

Thank you. Everything is "efficient and streamlined" until the government says stay in your houses for six months...then we all suffer and some of us starve anyway.

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