When our clothes and electronics or whatever mostly or exclusively come from the other side of the world, I don’t think it’s because corporations are taking advantage of economies of scale so much as they are doing arbitrage for labor and environmental protections. If we bring production closer to the people who need the products, then we get jobs, autonomy, and accountability. We can still have economies of scale at the regional level. Not every town needs the same set of factories of course.
When our clothes and electronics or whatever mostly or exclusively come from the other side of the world, I don’t think it’s because corporations are taking advantage of economies of scale so much as they are doing arbitrage for labor and environmental protections. If we bring production closer to the people who need the products, then we get jobs, autonomy, and accountability. We can still have economies of scale at the regional level. Not every town needs the same set of factories of course.