I don’t really know one way or the other, but I don’t think the pandemic proves that mutual interdependence is not safer than self-reliance. It’s not “perfectly safe mutual interdependence”.
f major shocks happened more often, we’d see more of it.
Isn’t that kind of the point? We don’t suffer major shocks often enough to make self-reliance the safer overall choice. (Or at least that is the claim one would make if one were convinced the mutual interdependence was safer than self-reliance)
I don’t really know one way or the other, but I don’t think the pandemic proves that mutual interdependence is not safer than self-reliance. It’s not “perfectly safe mutual interdependence”.
Isn’t that kind of the point? We don’t suffer major shocks often enough to make self-reliance the safer overall choice. (Or at least that is the claim one would make if one were convinced the mutual interdependence was safer than self-reliance)