The way in which we organize the world is through markets, it's through prices. And so you would really need to see a complete disintegration of supply chains in the commodity markets for us to get back to pre-modern times. But what these satellites are able to do is they're able to detect very small changes in harvests across the world. These small changes get detected and fed into tetrading bots, and they essentially get amplified. You don't necessarily need huge sort of price shocks or day after to morrow canestyles super storms o unleash global chaos.
Rupert Russell and Isabella Weber discuss Russell's book Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World and also the current politics of inflation.
Listen to Weber discuss her book How China Escaped Shock Therapy: thedigradio.com/podcast/how-china-escaped-shock-therapy-w-isabella-weber/
Look at Rupert's precious puppy: twitter.com/rupert_russell/status/1511428696409837573?s=20&t=OPVNgfXuokFY6ZQYRkxe4g
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