A supermarket or a farm are not part of our infrastructure. They may be "vital" but they are not infrastructure.
You (as an individual) can't really comparison shop for infrastructure, unless you want to move.
A supermarket or a farm are not part of our infrastructure. They may be "vital" but they are not infrastructure.
You (as an individual) can't really comparison shop for infrastructure, unless you want to move.
In Massachusetts you can absolutely comparison shop for specific power plants or sets thereof as an individual, at least to the extent of explicitly picking which generation company your money goes to by default. Of course in the end the way the grid works these companies end up effectively buying electricity from each other as needed... So this analogy only goes so far; supermarkets do not usually buy food from each other, I'd think.
Going to stop you right there. I wasn’t making any analogies. I was talking in literal terms.
I was pointing out that the parts of our food supply chain that are infrastructure and the parts that are market driven are different parts. The problem with thinking that we have “market-driven infrastructure which provides food” is that the system which provides us food is partly infrastructure and partly market-driven, but that doesn’t mean that the infrastructure is market-driven. The infrastructure parts (e.g. roads) and market-driven parts (e.g. farms) are different parts.
There’s no analogy here, I’m not using analogies, drawing comparisons, or equating things.