#economiesofscale — Public Fediverse posts

The only reason it's ever more difficult to eat vegan is due to the selective way that that food is stocked in grocery stores and what is presented in restaurants. 

Most of it is relatively easy to veganize, certainly nothing that would be beyond the current abilities of stores and restaurants. And this would certainly not be preserving the 'just pay more for stuff with cheaper ingredients' nonsense or 'just put up with an extremely abbreviated range of choices' nonsense or the 'just remove the meat leaving a sad shell of a meal' nonsense or the 'serve something completely different and unrelated to the regular theme of the restaurant' nonsense that is so often employed for vegan food replacements.

Like the primary reason processed vegan food is often so comparatively expensive is that it doesn't have access to the economies of scale that nonvegan food does. If it did we'd be able to get huge blocks of vegan cheese for less than it costs to make dairy cheese. Likewise, there's no inherent reasons that there needs to be fewer types of vegan options available. In my vegan utopia, there will be as many options of vegan cheese as there is dairy cheese in our current meat dystopia. More options, even! Vegan green cheese with vegan green ham! Vegan bleu cheese and Star Wars style vegan blue cheese! And more!

Also, why is it so common to think that the vegan version of a dish is just the meat version with the meat removed? If I want a replacement for spaghetti and meatballs, I want a vegan substitute for the meatballs. You can't just say, "Oh, I veganized spaghetti and meatballs" and then just give me a plain spaghetti with marinara, no parmesan! Unacceptable! Vegan meatballs are cheap and no more difficult to produce than murder meatballs. Even making vegan parmesan at home is just a few ingredients, a food processor, and a few minutes of time away. Am I to believe restaurants cannot possibly handle this?

Also, if the theme of the restaurant is barbecue, why is the vegan dish a hummus platter? Am I to believe that barbecue soy curls or seitan or jackfruit or tofu are all somehow too hard for a restaurant? 

Like the only reason any of this is ever comparatively harder for customers is because of an active, concerted effort by suppliers to suck up to the meat and animal products industries.

A wonderful & in-depth analysis of why #ornament has disappeared from modern #architecture as commissioned by the elite:

“The Beauty Of Concrete”, Works In Progress (https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-beauty-of-concrete/).

#Buildings #Economics #Concrete #Stone #EconomiesOfScale #Art #Esthetics

@Jlevinscherz
#primarycare apparentlyu doesn't have much #economiesofscale at that size.
Thousands of small #directprimarycare practices are thriving and growing though so there are better ways.
#familymedicine is complex but its business model can be simpler.

@Jlevinscherz
#primarycare apparentlyu doesn't have much #economiesofscale at that size.
Thousands of small #directprimarycare practices are thriving and growing though so there are better ways.
#familymedicine is complex but its business model can be simpler.

@Jlevinscherz
#primarycare apparentlyu doesn't have much #economiesofscale at that size.
Thousands of small #directprimarycare practices are thriving and growing though so there are better ways.
#familymedicine is complex but its business model can be simpler.

@Jlevinscherz
#primarycare apparentlyu doesn't have much #economiesofscale at that size.
Thousands of small #directprimarycare practices are thriving and growing though so there are better ways.
#familymedicine is complex but its business model can be simpler.

"Unlike software, #AI does not have the #economiesofscale. Each query often requires new, intense calculations, making the technology more expensive as more customers use the products…companies at risk of losses if they charge flat fees for #AIservices"

https://www.bigtechwire.com/2023/10/09/the-high-cost-of-ai-big-techs-struggle-to-turn-promises-into-profits/

From the "I'm not #vegan but I do all the #cooking for one" department:

Once the #food #agriculture #conglomerates get on the #plantbased wagon, everything starts stampeding towards #vegetarian and #vegan offerings (good!). Once you have a whole #NewJersey full of #foodscientists and #chemists working on making plant-based taste indistinguishable from, and #economiesofscale kick in, and cost parity is reached its just a matter of time.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/business/vegan-reeses/index.html

In this piece, I argue that #Mastodon will have to change if it were to rival #Twitter.

And I disagree that a single-user instance architecture like @aral suggests is the way to go. Though he makes an important point about the cost implications of hosting instances with popular users.

What we do need is a politics of social media architecture – and #regulation.

https://leviathan.substack.com/p/mastodon-will-have-to-change-if-it?sd=pf

#politicaleconomy #techpolicy #economiesofscale #UX #codeislaw #socialmedia

@uint8_t In the #Smallprint of the #SocialContract of #MassSociety it’s implicit that only #UseCases amenable to #EconomiesOfScale will enjoy proper support. It’s the true root cause of #ComputerSaysNo.

Suggestion for Mastodon (to prevent eventual gMastodon instance): cap instance size at 100 - 1,000 account by default. Make it a social contract for instances not to federate with instances greater than that limit.

Or, a few years from now, say hello to “gMastodon”. (See history of email and the Web for a lesson in the future.)

That said, we might already be on that path.

#economiesOfScale #networkEffects #powerDifferentials #ventureCapital