5.10 Economies of Scale
One size does not fit all.
Not when it comes to clothing - get it wrong and you bruise from tripping over too-long hems, or tear a seam reaching for something that should be well within your grasp.
So too does the build-for-big-manufacturing financing assumptions of our banking systems fail to serve the build-to-fit neighbourhood or non-manufacturing sectors.
We can't afford to keep paying for this mis-fit.
It is time for the skilled fit-to-measure, waste-not era of tailored solutions.
This is an emerging Ink Cap mushroom. It will be big once it unfurls, it's gills darkening until a light touch over them will stain your fingertips and let you fingerpaint with mushroom. A common companion of lawns and roadsides.
5.10 Economies of Scale
The cost of disappearing neighbourhood bakeries, and the economic innovations that fall outside our current measures of succes and therefore are significantly undervalued in our trade & commerce focused culture. The power of hope and conversation in sowing the seeds of change. With a detour to the difficulties of baking bread in a brick oven, and a tip of the hat to the cost of fueling a fire.
Something Different This Way Comes is produced by Heather McLeod Wealth.
Heather McLeod is the one-woman everything behind this podcast
Contact her at SomethingDifferentThisWayComes@proton.me
This episode references:
Slow Morocco's article on Ferrans
Tamarack Institute's free webinars on Community Wealth Building
Victoria Forum brought policy-makers, researchers and practitioners together August 2026
