Lone wolf question: Always wanted to ask.

[John]

(5 September 2013, 15:10)bigpaul Wrote:

(5 September 2013, 14:59)BeardyMan Wrote: But do 10 people use 10 times the food, water, noise & waste etc?

Economies of scale etc...

maybe more? depends if there's any "piggies" in the group? if you have 10 times the food the temptation may be to have bigger portions. ditto with water. noise? well 10 people will make more noise than 1 especially if they are moaning about the rations. waste? well obviously 10 people will poo more than 1 person will.

The simple meaning of economies of scale is doing things more efficiently with increasing size of operation.
So may be groups are better for survival than lone wolf.
But do re read previous posts before we start going round in circles.