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But WHY would it take so long to get the supply chain back on track? That's just ridiculous.

Posted by ty97 Nov 12 '21, 16:03

We need a better supply chain.

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Because Democrats can’t get shit done! Bring in the Republicans to show us all how it’s done! -- nm - Mop Nov 12, 17:22
As someone who studied supply chain management, it's because supply chains are incredibly complex webs - TWuG Nov 12, 16:17 11
- And that is just the human capital challenge. It’s built to be economically efficient lest you introduce all those ‘ions in - Will Hunting Nov 12, 16:25 3
  - Yeah, efficiences are vastly underrated. Just in time and the various other names it uses have helped reduce costs - TWuG Nov 12, 16:29
  - That's the worst cover of INXS "Mediate" I've ever heard. -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 16:28 1
    - 🤣 -- nm - JD Nov 12, 16:35
- Imagine if we made some of that stuff here and didn't need to get it processed through a port.... -- nm - ty97 Nov 12, 16:19 6
  - Guess what that'd give you? Also inflation. Because the cost to produce here is greater than the cost - TWuG Nov 12, 16:22 3
    - Also, we lost manufacturing over 50 years…we’re not rebuilding it in 6 quarters. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 12, 16:24 1
      - Manufacturing still happens in the US. What it doesn't require to the extent it did, is actual human workers. - TWuG Nov 12, 16:26
    - Even if we produced it here, even if we took that inflation hit, there's still COVID! -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 16:22
  - If the issues persist, it will return to being profitable to do so. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 16:21
  - Congratulations, inflation has now tripled. -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 16:21
How do you suggest improving a system designed to reduce excess and redundancy? - Will Hunting Nov 12, 16:15 1
- I'm not an expert in the field, but it clearly needs some improving because *waves arms around* look at everything right now! -- nm - ty97 Nov 12, 16:17
Perhaps but we have the supply chain that we deserve? One optimized for normal supply and demand? - JD Nov 12, 16:13 12
- And by optimized, we definitely mean for shareholder profits only. -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 16:16
- Step 1: Don't shut it all down in the first place. -- nm - ty97 Nov 12, 16:16 10
  - We shut down non-essential businesses to stop a pandemic spread. Would you rather have every company acting like Tysons Food? - Will Hunting Nov 12, 16:21 1
    - Many miracles. Vaccines. Globalization working towards singular goal. Insurrection didn't succeed. -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 16:25
  - There was a time when it was thought that packages themselves were spreading covid. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 16:18
  - Are you retroactively advocating that workers along the supply chain should have been thrown into the teeth of COVID? -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 16:17 5
    - A lot of the raw materials, etc, are automated. The shutdown were preemptive by the companies to control supply, not to protect workers. -- nm - ty97 Nov 12, 16:18 4
      - I don't know what this means. I don't believe there is automation so good it requires no human workers, at all, like at all. -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 16:21 3
        
        If you automate steel production, fine, you produce steel without human workers. But steel doesn't construct itself into - TWuG Nov 12, 16:24 2
        
        as well as humans still have a way of goofing up systems. There's stories of companies doubling the quantity of chips they order -- (edited) - JD Nov 12, 16:29 1
        
        It's almost always easier to break something than it is to repair it after it breaks. - TWuG Nov 12, 16:33
  - Congratulations, half the world has now died from Covid. -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 16:17
Would actually make a good Documentary. We just assume supply chains work -- nm - budice Nov 12, 16:13

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