My recent food harvesting metaphor keeps on bearing fruit!
I arrive at a workshop to see a buffet of fruit.

Tasty, but I wager none of it is local and most only half of it is in season.
So what we have is a system that is very good and delivering out of season fruit from far away while local, in-season fruit wilts on the trees.
If you were to start from a blank sheet of paper you wouldn’t design this.
A system that is efficient and scaled up in every step.
And absurd in its outcome.