Ok first of all that sounds like a literal vertical monopoly.
That is not what a vertical monopoly is at all, lol. Thats just a normal warehouse.
Vertical monopoly would be if they also owned all the companies that manufactured the parts they use to make their product, and the companies that collected the raw materials to make those parts, and they owned the land those raw materials were gathered from, and they owned companies that had a stake in the consumption of those end products.
IE if a company owned:
The land trees were harvested from
The company that harvested those trees
The mills that processed the trees into pulp
The manufacturing warehouse that turned the pulp into paper
The manufacturing that bound that paper into books
The press companies that produced the books
Had contracts with the writers that wrote the books
The distribution companies that distributed the books
The companies that sold the books themselves
And finally they owned companies that had vested interest in recommending people buy the books (teachers or whatever), or perhaps they owned companies that used those books (like perhaps they own a bunch of privately owned libraries or whatever)
Then that would be a vertical monopoly.
What I am talking about is just a "mom and pop" warehouse that purely owns one of step 4, 5, or 6.
There's a difference between centralizing where your books are delivered from (a warehouse) and literally owning the company that delivers the books and owning the company the books are delivered to (THAT is a vertical monopoly)
Not all businesses can or should be doing that. Chemicals are still toxic and dangerous, even 3d printing is potentially/literally toxic and even wood shops know to have ventilation systems just for wood dust.
Yeah… thats not an issue mate. Warehouses are big, it is 100% the norm to have both office space and the actual production in the same building, as they are usually an entire city block apart in terms of distance, sometimes more.
Its also quite common for the office space to be disconnected, still on the same property but just a second building that perhaps is connected by a walkway or pedway or whatever, or a hallway, etc etc. Typically the office space, the warehouse, and the manufacturing are very far apart.
Anyone who has ever worked at these types of facilities would know this.
Also I literally said people walking to their corner store which is wayyy better than a fleet of delivery vehicles driving out to each individual house the logistics of that which are insane considering just how often they would have to do runs to cover all times of the day when people might want or need items.
It is indeed a very complex logistical problem.
The nice thing is pretty much every developed nation in the world solved it countless years ago via something we all know called Mail. Literally everyone uses it everywhere, and many of the big nations even have several mail options to choose from between their nationalized public service mail or competing privatized mail companies.
Not exactly an issue in 2023 to mail something to someone.
Trapped home alone with interactions only with delivery drivers.
Do…
Do you…
Do you only socialize and go outside explicitly just to buy stuff? Do you literally never step outside and go interact with people unless you have to go and buy a thing?
Do you need help? Are you doing okay? You're exhibiting some chronically online symptoms mate, I'm gonna prescribe a healthy dose of "go touch some grass"
SpongeBob above, you are a pedantic nerd who locked onto one thing to over explain to prove you are smarter than me.
Ew. Alright you have picked your side you could just say that.
Do you need help? Are you doing okay? You're exhibiting some chronically online symptoms mate, I'm gonna prescribe a healthy dose of "go touch some grass"
Also what a garbage way to talk down to people. It literally shows you don't care you just want to feel the dopamine of feeling superior.
…Building hundreds, thousands? of multiple block large warehouses that serve where? How many? Insane. Still dystopian.
Id recommend, in the future, googling some basic stuff before making a bunch of assertions about common knowledge about how a city works before saying stuff like
…Building hundreds, thousands? of multiple block large warehouses that serve where? How many? Insane. Still dystopian.
Cause you instantly out yourself as chronically online and out of touch with reality.
I dont know how to break it to you, but you literally just described the basic premise of what a city is, and in your prior post you literally described the basic premise of how a warehouse works, and the basic premise of mail, following up with postulating about how it sounds "dystopian" and "insane" and whatnot.
Mate you are describing basic infrastructure that is part of modern life, you have described problems that were solved like a hundred plus years ago as "insane" solutions that you must actively engage with daily if you are a grown ass functional adult.
"A system where thousands of people deliver parcels across a giant infrastructured network, right to peoples doorstep? Poppycock, how could anyone ever accomplish such a thing, why first you would need to have every single house assigned its own unique identifying number, and then you'd have to give that number to the other person, and then they'd have to use this third party network their parcel, which would then require to be handed off across multiple nodes of delivery to finally arrive at the other person's doorstep. The infrastructure and effort would be insane, no one could achieve that"
That is not what a vertical monopoly is at all, lol. Thats just a normal warehouse.
Vertical monopoly would be if they also owned all the companies that manufactured the parts they use to make their product, and the companies that collected the raw materials to make those parts, and they owned the land those raw materials were gathered from, and they owned companies that had a stake in the consumption of those end products.
IE if a company owned:
Then that would be a vertical monopoly.
What I am talking about is just a "mom and pop" warehouse that purely owns one of step 4, 5, or 6.
There's a difference between centralizing where your books are delivered from (a warehouse) and literally owning the company that delivers the books and owning the company the books are delivered to (THAT is a vertical monopoly)
Yeah… thats not an issue mate. Warehouses are big, it is 100% the norm to have both office space and the actual production in the same building, as they are usually an entire city block apart in terms of distance, sometimes more.
Its also quite common for the office space to be disconnected, still on the same property but just a second building that perhaps is connected by a walkway or pedway or whatever, or a hallway, etc etc. Typically the office space, the warehouse, and the manufacturing are very far apart.
Anyone who has ever worked at these types of facilities would know this.
It is indeed a very complex logistical problem.
The nice thing is pretty much every developed nation in the world solved it countless years ago via something we all know called Mail. Literally everyone uses it everywhere, and many of the big nations even have several mail options to choose from between their nationalized public service mail or competing privatized mail companies.
Not exactly an issue in 2023 to mail something to someone.
Do…
Do you…
Do you only socialize and go outside explicitly just to buy stuff? Do you literally never step outside and go interact with people unless you have to go and buy a thing?
Do you need help? Are you doing okay? You're exhibiting some chronically online symptoms mate, I'm gonna prescribe a healthy dose of "go touch some grass"
SpongeBob above, you are a pedantic nerd who locked onto one thing to over explain to prove you are smarter than me.
Ew. Alright you have picked your side you could just say that.
Also what a garbage way to talk down to people. It literally shows you don't care you just want to feel the dopamine of feeling superior.
…Building hundreds, thousands? of multiple block large warehouses that serve where? How many? Insane. Still dystopian.
Id recommend, in the future, googling some basic stuff before making a bunch of assertions about common knowledge about how a city works before saying stuff like
Cause you instantly out yourself as chronically online and out of touch with reality.
I dont know how to break it to you, but you literally just described the basic premise of what a city is, and in your prior post you literally described the basic premise of how a warehouse works, and the basic premise of mail, following up with postulating about how it sounds "dystopian" and "insane" and whatnot.
Mate you are describing basic infrastructure that is part of modern life, you have described problems that were solved like a hundred plus years ago as "insane" solutions that you must actively engage with daily if you are a grown ass functional adult.
"A system where thousands of people deliver parcels across a giant infrastructured network, right to peoples doorstep? Poppycock, how could anyone ever accomplish such a thing, why first you would need to have every single house assigned its own unique identifying number, and then you'd have to give that number to the other person, and then they'd have to use this third party network their parcel, which would then require to be handed off across multiple nodes of delivery to finally arrive at the other person's doorstep. The infrastructure and effort would be insane, no one could achieve that"
Bitch thats fucking mail