I think a lot of this is better and more efficient centrally-managed. There are two things:
1) We want food production overcapacity, so if there is e.g. a 25% hit due to a freak weather event, or a diseases killing 100% of this years' corn crop, we don't have widespread food shortages.
2) That overcapacity should go somewhere. Large warehouses seem like reasonable places for it to go.
A lot of other things -- like medicines -- I can't realistically manage.
And rotating food is, well, a lot of hard work for someone absent-minded. I think one of my key questions is about how bad expired food gets. I've heard of people eating (and even growing) literally ancient grains. "Best before" isn't always "toxic after."
We used to be able to make big plans like this maybe a 75 years ago, during the era of WWII and the early cold war. Let's stick a man on the moon! Make a nuclear bomb! Create a whole new system of government! Etc.
1) We want food production overcapacity, so if there is e.g. a 25% hit due to a freak weather event, or a diseases killing 100% of this years' corn crop, we don't have widespread food shortages.
2) That overcapacity should go somewhere. Large warehouses seem like reasonable places for it to go.
A lot of other things -- like medicines -- I can't realistically manage.
And rotating food is, well, a lot of hard work for someone absent-minded. I think one of my key questions is about how bad expired food gets. I've heard of people eating (and even growing) literally ancient grains. "Best before" isn't always "toxic after."
We used to be able to make big plans like this maybe a 75 years ago, during the era of WWII and the early cold war. Let's stick a man on the moon! Make a nuclear bomb! Create a whole new system of government! Etc.