You Can Thank Disaster Capitalism for The Mess We’re In

Disasters produce customers. They shouldn’t.

Jessica Wildfire

6 min readJan 13, 2022

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Photo by Amin Moshrefi on Unsplash

They were running out fast.

The store transferred my order to three different locations. Then they sent me to a fourth location 45 minutes away.

Sold out, again.

Jessica Wildfire

Written by Jessica Wildfire

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