[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"external-oc-546":3},{"payload":4,"id":7,"user":8,"level":14,"course":15,"activity":16,"activity_slug":17,"title":6,"topic":18,"tone":19,"stats":20,"created":23,"score":24,"is_favorite":25,"public":26,"is_external":25},{"text":5,"title":6},"In discussions of a supposedly post-scarcity economy, global supply chains are often presented as systems of near-perfect efficiency, (0) WITH shortages treated as temporary anomalies rather than structural warnings. Yet recent disruptions have shown just how fragile these networks can be, many links (1) .......... which remain invisible to consumers until they fail. In the wake (2) .......... port closures, sanctions and extreme weather, firms have discovered that resilience does not arise automatically from scale. Executives (3) .......... insist that diversification matters, but such claims ring hollow when procurement decisions are made at the behest (4) .......... short-term cost targets alone. What makes the situation worse is that inventories once regarded as wasteful (5) .......... in fact provide a buffer against shocks. So dependent have manufacturers become on just-in-time delivery (6) .......... even minor delays can halt production altogether. Some analysts argue that the system will recover by itself; others maintain that, unless governments and firms rethink their assumptions, the next crisis will expose weaknesses, many (7) .......... have been building for years. The lesson is not that abundance is impossible, but that abundance, if it is to endure, (8) .......... require structures designed for strain as well as speed.","Supply Chain Fragility",546,{"id":9,"username":10,"first_name":11,"last_name":12,"image":13},22486,"thanasis-kalpaktsis","Thanasis","Kalpaktsis","https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocKsgHZxh5qIVo4_x8woFe2N7no3UAuMvF2C9zlUUilNlyY4Dg=s96-c","C2","Reading","Open Cloze","open-cloze","Create an exercise about the fragility of global supply chains in a post-scarcity economy. Target: partitive relatives (of which), emphatic 'do', and fixed idioms like 'in the wake of' or 'at the behest of'","Professional",{"times_played":21,"num_favorites":22},1,0,"2026-05-02T18:30:27",null,false,true]