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The Wildberries Edition

When a Wildberries warehouse burns, thousands of sellers lose inventory and take to the internet to complain, while the company — debt-laden and with razor-thin margins — threatens to further collapse Russia's economy. This concentration of value is now a feature of modern commerce. It is also not a vulnerability unique to Russia.

Chris Papasadero
1mo ago

I love sharing it with people to illustrate just how fragile the global economy is — because we have eliminated every redundancy in favor of efficiency, and the consequences are hiding in plain sight.

4mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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