Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021: Megathread - A cozy thread for watching the supply chain fall apart just in time for the holidays

[George Lucas]

Aside from lack of education, why would they save when they have no faith in investment institutions and social security?

They cut back on benefits every year and some industries will not want to hire you past a certain age unless you are a high level manager.
Not sure what's going to some of all this, though.

‘I don’t trust banks and some companies are cutting back on benefits, therefore I’m not going to save at all and get a job that has no benefits.’

Spoiler

I find that ‘I don’t invest because …’ is usually copium from someone who doesn’t handle money well and doesn’t have anything left at the end of the month to invest with. You can always buy gold and stuff money in a mattress if you’re really so scared about ‘investment institutions’ that have been around for hundreds of years failing.

 

[Sped Xing]

‘I don’t trust banks and some companies are cutting back on benefits, therefore I’m not going to save at all and get a job that has no benefits.’

Spoiler

I find that ‘I don’t invest because …’ is usually copium from someone who doesn’t handle money well and doesn’t have anything left at the end of the month to invest with. You can always buy gold and stuff money in a mattress if you’re really so scared about ‘investment institutions’ that have been around for hundreds of years failing.

My trucker job has paid-for medical insurance and a 401k. Fuck are you on about?

Anyway, health insurance and retirement plans have only a dollar value. Self-evidently better for a healthy young man to buy his own health insurance and fund his own IRA rather than hope for a pension and paid medical if he's pullibg 90k in the former and 40k in the latter.

 

[Hippopatumus]

if you’re really so scared about ‘investment institutions’ that have been around for hundreds of years failing.

While many of the big "investment institutions" have been around for hundreds of years, profitable investments have changed over time. The dollar has only been the world's reserve currency for around a century. Fifty years ago bonds were a great return. Then it was broad market indexing / tech. Now it's assets and commodities.

It's totally rational for people who don't follow finance to distrust investment plans and advice given to them, usually by people who want to prey on them. What's truly criminal is that these people could stuff cash into a mattress for 50 years and retire on that cash if not for central banking racketeering siphoning wealth out of the system. Turn your ire at those guys, not the blue-collar worker.

 

[George Lucas]

My trucker job has paid-for medical insurance and a 401k. Fuck are you on about?

Anyway, health insurance and retirement plans have only a dollar value. Self-evidently better for a healthy young man to buy his own health insurance and fund his own IRA rather than hope for a pension and paid medical if he's pullibg 90k in the former and 40k in the latter.

A lot of white collar jobs don’t offer any benefits. We’re talking about generalizations here: https://www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/benefits/2021/employee-benefits-in-the-united-states-march-2021.pdf

What I’ve personally noticed is that young blue collar workers will go for higher pay jobs without considering benefits, buying their own tools, cars, etc. I never buy anything for work purposes. I’d only do that if I owned my own business/was a contractor (i.e. a real contractor, not the fake ‘oh you’re a contractor because I don’t want to pay taxes’ bullshit).

That doesn’t mean you can’t be blue collar and make smart decisions, but it’s not the panacea 4chan makes it out to be.

Pensions are nothing to scoff at. There’s a reason companies rarely offer them now. Having a pension and investing is like winning the lottery, esp. for women who live a ridiculously long amount of time.

 

[Sped Xing]

Pensions are nothing to scoff at. There’s a reason companies rarely offer them now. Having a pension *and* investing is like winning the lottery, esp. for women who live a ridiculously long amount of time.

Until the company goes belly-up and the execs abscond with all that future money. Pay me now.

 

[Terrifik]

Here tim video supply chain video

 

[Mobius Boner]

Not that it's a good idea but doesn't it make slightly more sense to use the natty girls to unload ships or transport goods than have them help film dancing nurse tiktoks?

 

[Jump]

Not that it's a good idea but doesn't it make slightly more sense to use the natty girls to unload ships or transport goods than have them help film dancing nurse tiktoks?

>Work at McDonalds in Sometown, USA
>Get tired of deadend job so join Army
>Get sent to Afgandistan to work in Airport McDonalds for less money and risk of getting beheaded

Now
>Work in Amazon warehouse in wagecage. Shit hours and crap pay.
>Join Army NG to gain more skills
>Get sent to docks to unload cheap shit from china for Amazon, but now you arnt even allowed to go home and your making less.

Spoiler: thank you for your service to the nation

 

[grasshoppermustard]

Not that it's a good idea but doesn't it make slightly more sense to use the natty girls to unload ships or transport goods than have them help film dancing nurse tiktoks?

Excuse me, what you're referring to as "natty girls" are actually content creators, have some heckin' respect.

Swapped out my gas bottle this morning, last time it cost $26, today it cost $34. This is in Australia.

 

[Beavis]

My skoo district is so short of bus drivers they’re cancelling routes and giving kids passes for city busses.

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

Swapped out my gas bottle this morning, last time it cost $26, today it cost $34. This is in Australia.

Like, barbecue gas? 9kg?
I have to get a 45kg refill for my stove next week. That's usually $120 around here.

 

[grasshoppermustard]

Like, barbecue gas? 9kg?
I have to get a 45kg refill for my stove next week. That's usually $120 around here.

Yeah the servo ones, swap and go.

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

Yeah the servo ones, swap and go.

Jesus... Cheers for the info.

 

[WinchesterWhiskey]

I'm buying 200 dollars worth of food just to be on the safe side. I don't like making decisions based on fear, but this is one of those times that I feel like I can get away with it.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

I'm buying 200 dollars worth of food just to be on the safe side. I don't like making decisions based on fear, but this is one of those times that I feel like I can get away with it.

Don't worry, buying food is one of the more rational fear based decisions you can make. If you have a plan to eat the food regardless before it goes bad, you're just pre-paying for food.

A bad decision would be say... Buying seeds. With no farming knowledge or land to plant them in.

Or getting a new puppy. Yes it cures loneliness but it also eats and drinks and poops.

You could do worse.

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I noted a shortage of Cappuccino and Matcha Lindt truffles earlier. What I said still stands, but they've added their Halloween and Christmas seasonal options online (Christmas only in the mix boxes). I wonder if it's a supply issue or a worker issue. Maybe they just stopped making caffeine flavors so they could use those workers on seasonal flavors.

Also I notice some products that are listed on their website say out of stock on the specific product page, but I think that was the case even before all this started so that might not mean anything.

 

[WinchesterWhiskey]

Don't worry, buying food is one of the more rational fear based decisions you can make. If you have a plan to eat the food regardless before it goes bad, you're just pre-paying for food.

A bad decision would be say... Buying seeds. With no farming knowledge or land to plant them in.

Or getting a new puppy. Yes it cures loneliness but it also eats and drinks and poops.

You could do worse.

Yeah, when COVID hit I actually had a friend who was working in the State Department telling me to start prepping. It wasn't until my Asian reporter friends started sounding the alarm bells that I started taking the shit seriously.

I had everything I needed, except for luxuries that could last. Specifically, coca cola, snack foods, etc. It turns out, when the panic buying was happening those things were still on the shelves. Toilet paper? Gone. Paper towels? Gone. Preparation H? Still there, which was astounding to me.

 

[Jump]

I'm buying 200 dollars worth of food just to be on the safe side. I don't like making decisions based on fear, but this is one of those times that I feel like I can get away with it.

Its not a bad decision if you take some care to watch experation dates and practice FIFO so nothing ever goes to waste. . First In First Out. And buy stuff you would actually eat.

 

[Jimbobaggins]

Another good article I found about the supply chain issues

 

[Sped Xing]

Like, barbecue gas? 9kg?
I have to get a 45kg refill for my stove next week. That's usually $120 around here.

Use wood, you pleb.

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

Use wood, you pleb.

While a wood stove would be awesome, it's a little impractical for cooking breakfast at 5am.