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Cool story, but a once every 150 years pandemic is hardly a good reason to keep wasting money on storing stuff. A fire or a flood was much more likely to wipe it all out in 50 years.
Even in your anecdote the owner never actually benefited from the extra costs.
Depending on what you're producing costs to maintain extra inventory of raw materials can be massive and for the company the size of Toyota, multiply that by million.
You're not wrong, but the real answer is somewhere in between.
Imagine doing something or having a life/business philosophy that doesn't exist for your own soul benefit, and exists maybe for the benefit of others.