Feels like we’ve swung exceedingly far. Our drive to capture efficiencies through economies of scale make us very vulnerable to systematic disruption
Is that what's happened here? It looks to me more like the billionaire/PE class's drive to capture rents through monopolies is a more accurate lens to view the situation through. Especially as it's the trope namer for chickenization
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chickenization
https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenize...
It also goes far beyond farming - it applies to many supply chains.