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this post was submitted on 14 May 2024
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Four stories from the COVID supply crunch stood out to me:
Factories building and garages maintaining 18-wheelers had to shut down because they couldn't source some small metal part that came from China domestically. It was just like a particular kind of ball-bearing.
A factory that made doors had to shut down because it couldn't source its inputs domestically
Municipal utility companies warned that they had no supplies to respond to infrastructure damage because they couldn't source them domestically
Nurses were wearing trash bags while people paid $100 for homemade ineffective hand sanitiser on ebay because the basic supplies required to respond to the pandemic at any level couldn't be sourced domestically.
Big fuck around energy.
Yeah, a lot of industries that the USA needs is basically overseas at this point.
It'd be a shame if this trade war escalated to make consumer goods unavailable/more expensive during what will probably be the hottest summer in human history and an election year where the majority of Americans hate their unhinged genocidal president who's gaslighting them about the ersatz economy.
Even if it's not a recession, it's basically "hard economic times" masqueraded as a "booming" economy... which is a term that means nothing at this point.
Let them eat bigscreen televisions.
...Okay, I feel called out.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
(I actually miss TV, tbh.)
Sure would be a shame if there was a tech bubble built on over-hyped technology that could pop at any moment.
Yes.
MIC is making a killing selling weapons to fascist regimes
My friends and Zionism -err, I mean, Zoidberg.