I was presuming that there’d be a lot of unsold ones left over from ten years before.
Not necessarily. Remember my earlier point about the last cohort. Even if pregnancies stopped instantly, there are still 0-2 years’ worth of babies and kids who might use diapers—which is enough time to sell off the minimal just-in-time stocks and shutter the factories. But if you want to assume that, I doubt anyone will call foul on it.
Actually, it could also be used to hint at his rationality not always being all that hot: even if he figures out that a previous behavior wasn’t really all that useful, he’d rather stick to it than admit being wrong.
Yup. Either one (signaling or stubbornness due to cognitive dissonance) is more interesting and more educational and more plausible than just the dubious ‘it saves me time’.
Not necessarily. Remember my earlier point about the last cohort. Even if pregnancies stopped instantly, there are still 0-2 years’ worth of babies and kids who might use diapers—which is enough time to sell off the minimal just-in-time stocks and shutter the factories. But if you want to assume that, I doubt anyone will call foul on it.
Yup. Either one (signaling or stubbornness due to cognitive dissonance) is more interesting and more educational and more plausible than just the dubious ‘it saves me time’.