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

[AnotherPleb]

Perhaps having everyone's industry and economy be so intertwined with one another's to the point that a small delay in Thailand fig packaging can cripple the supply chain was a bad idea.

but if that ideas wrong then ceos cant justify shipping all the manufacturing off to southeast asian shitholes

 

[MadStan]

The more I read that article, there more I think some tinfoil hats guys might be on to something.

Martin Armstrong: Are The US Supply Chain Disruptions Deliberate? | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Nope.

The people I deal with refuse to get vaccinated and aren't and do not give a shit. If anyone was to tell them for some strange reason they simply aren't making products for me because it feeds into .... what exactly?

Exactly who benefits from every single supply chain problem that is present in every country on the planet, regardless of ideology. Are we circling back to the Rockerfeller/Soros controls everything argument?

We have a supply chain issue. The Tin foil hats aren't helping because their bizarre root causes actually aren't.

 

[Simple Moving Average]

The Consumer Price Index is not a measure of inflation generally. The CPI deliberately excludes goods that are prone to high inflation in order to understate inflation, for mostly political reasons. Real inflation is (and always has been) much higher than the CPI, and is increasing more rapidly now than at any time since the advent of the CPI (~1980).

Generally use ShadowStats for realistic US inflation figures.

 

[veri]

except the shitty flavors like orange or grape,

lucky? i haven’t found that one in months. i read that it got discontinued along with the red ones. should’ve just discontinued orange instead that one sucked

 

[Nate Higgs]

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey believes hyperinflation is an impending threat to the US economy — and will change everything

Jack Dorsey used Twitter to express fears about hyperinflation. His comments came amid supply-chain disruptions, which can affect the price of goods.

www.businessinsider.com

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Companies like yours were an integral part of what's going on today. The day will come where you'll reap the whirlwind, hippy cunt.

INB4 next year when hyperinflation gets declared a conspiracy theory and talking about it on twitter gets you banned.

 

[George Lucas]

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey believes hyperinflation is an impending threat to the US economy — and will change everything

Jack Dorsey used Twitter to express fears about hyperinflation. His comments came amid supply-chain disruptions, which can affect the price of goods.

www.businessinsider.com

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Companies like yours were an integral part of what's going on today. The day will come where you'll reap the whirlwind, hippy cunt.

I’m noticing that the media doesn’t actually know how to respond to this (as of now). There’s none of those ridiculous ‘Here’s why hyperinflation is actually good’ or ‘Biden’s policies aren’t actually causing hyperinflation (Hint: it’s because of conservatives)’ editorials.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

I’m noticing that the media doesn’t actually know how to respond to this (as of now). There’s none of those ridiculous ‘Here’s why hyperinflation is actually good’ or ‘Biden’s policies aren’t actually causing hyperinflation (Hint: it’s because of conservatives)’ editorials.

Maybe they're trying to draw back through a chain of conversations and tweets to show Jacks become Far-Right, and try to get him deplatformed before he can question the narrative more.

 

[Actinidia]

Good lord what job and what part of the country?

I wouldn't be shocked if all these fast food places that closed indoor dining aren't hiring. Most people will just wait in a long drive through line to get their fix.

Mostly, I don't think they are hiring, just like it's incredible how many public restrooms have never re-opened, and businesses are still hanging up signs pretending nobody can figure out how to clean a toilet because there might be germs on it. COVID taught a lot of corporate fucks that if you hang up a sign asserting something, the vast majority of your customers will accept it without question. It also taught a bunch of fat assed Americans to pay out the nose to eat cold McFood, so now they'll go out and "save" $10 on Door Dash by waiting in a 45 minute line themselves.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

I’m noticing that the media doesn’t actually know how to respond to this (as of now). There’s none of those ridiculous ‘Here’s why hyperinflation is actually good’ or ‘Biden’s policies aren’t actually causing hyperinflation (Hint: it’s because of conservatives)’ editorials.

If all else fails, they'll just blame it on the scamdemic and claim the filthy unvaxxed are responsible for the collapse of the supply chain and use it as an excuse for concentration camps and probably sending in the military to forcibly vaccinate people at gunpoint. They are going to blame unvaccinated people for the coming economic crash, and plenty of people are going to believe them. Literally no different than how Weimar hyperinflation and the Great Depression was blamed on the Jews.

Actually wait, somehow even less true since at least you can prove there were some Jewish bankers and politicians doing shit monetary policy while not a single unvaccinated person has anything to do with the crisis 100% manufactured by the political class (unless the political class doesn't take their own poison which might be true too).

 

[Art Kassul]

lucky? i haven’t found that one in months. i read that it got discontinued along with the red ones. should’ve just discontinued orange instead that one sucked

No shortage of mango Bang yet. All is well on the mania-inducing soda front.

 

[Kramer on the phone]

The more I read that article, there more I think some tinfoil hats guys might be on to something.

Martin Armstrong: Are The US Supply Chain Disruptions Deliberate? | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

of course its deliberate, Biden could have pulled a Reagan on the ports or sent the national guard after Newsom to drop the trucking bullshit.

It will be amazing to see him and Silicon Valley collectively shit themselves when they realize that their entire business model becomes kaput when people no longer have the time and money for shit like twitter and facebook.

Said the person on the kiwifarms.

All these supply problems is caused by the covid response, but not the way people think. If it was just raw materials or workers then you would see more fighting over raw materials or workers. What has happened is that too much money got printed and pumped into the global economy. Everyone know inflation is happening, everyone know it's going to be bad. 40% of the money printed in US history was printed in the last 12 months.

Selling your shit now means a potentially good deal will turn into a awful deal in three months. Everyone are sitting and waiting to see where the needle will drop.

And remember, this was all done to prevent a 10% increase in excess deaths compared to 2019

I hate when people use this stat because it was first said back in April of 2020, i think we're at 80% in the last 24 months now.

My local grocer went from paying 7.50 an hour to 22.50 an hour for some positions. We’re boned lol.

I have a great job im pretty ok at. but the way people are talking the only thing keeping me at my job RN is that its so close to home and it has amazing heating. I don't want to work at lowes for 23/hr if i'm outside in the fucking cold.

A lot of these places are only giving part time hours. Best Buy raised their starting wage to $15 an hour then fired a bunch of full time employees and slashed hours for those remaining.

Thats the other point. jobs that used to have unlimited overtime a year and a half ago are having employees get 35 hours a week now.

The Consumer Price Index is not a measure of inflation generally. The CPI deliberately excludes goods that are prone to high inflation in order to understate inflation, for mostly political reasons. Real inflation is (and always has been) much higher than the CPI, and is increasing more rapidly now than at any time since the advent of the CPI (~1980).

well whats real inflation and why do i have a feeling it didn't average 3% between 1992-2019

Good lord what job and what part of the country?

I wouldn't be shocked if all these fast food places that closed indoor dining aren't hiring. Most people will just wait in a long drive through line to get their fix.

I know for a fact its company policy to close indoor dining when there is less than 3 employees working. Plus drive thru generates a majority of their income anyway. And outside of wait times there is no reason that these restaurants couldn't be run by 2 people.

 

[Ancient Pioneer]

I’m noticing that the media doesn’t actually know how to respond to this (as of now). There’s none of those ridiculous ‘Here’s why hyperinflation is actually good’ or ‘Biden’s policies aren’t actually causing hyperinflation (Hint: it’s because of conservatives)’ editorials.

I don't think Jack knows either. Zuckerberg has always been a total piece of shit, but Jack has always come across as one of those naive leftist libertarian types that has been dragged by the demands of his business to a place he ethically does not want to be. The business he is in just doesn't tolerate that kind of ideology, the smart ones jump out immediately like Tom from Myspace, the pieces of shit like Zuckerberg always knew going in that they were going to constrict speech. Jack comes across to me as someone who has had to take a step backwards a few hundred times because his executives and investors have come screaming "The ADL demands.." "Mothers Against Guns is mad because shooter xyz posted..." "Merkel is mad people are shit talking her ineptness over migrants..." leading to situations like Trump getting banned and Jack being browbeat into supporting it, even stating that he felt it was an extremely dangerous precedent to make for the company. I don't feel like Dorsey has much control over the direction of Twitter at all, the company gives off the impression that its coasting off of inertia and that various wokeoid executives below Dorsey are just doing whatever they want and there is a huge amount of civil war over the most inane shit. Netflix also gives off this impression with the executives smiting the troons who crashed a meeting only for the CEO to come out wringing his hands a week later when the troons started protesting. People want to work at places that aren't full of fucking landmines and Google, Netflix, Twitter and most of Silicon Valley appear to have dysfunctional and weak leadership. Dorsey gives off every impression that he would better be served by just cashing in his chips and leaving, which is why you seem him with the fucking homeless person look, but he remains because Twitter is too dangerous to be left to some deranged woke person.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Thats the other point. jobs that used to have unlimited overtime a year and a half ago are having employees get 35 hours a week now.

I've gotten unlimited overtime since they sent everyone back to work full-time since late last year, it's hundreds of dollars a week extra (could be more if I felt like it). Actually it's borderline mandatory because you get guilt-tripped if you don't cover for all the people who don't work there because nobody is applying. There's probably still plenty of jobs out there that'll give you that if you really feel like spending your waking life at work.

I don't think Jack knows either. Zuckerberg has always been a total piece of shit, but Jack has always come across as one of those naive leftist libertarian types that has been dragged by the demands of his business to a place he ethically does not want to be. The business he is in just doesn't tolerate that kind of ideology, the smart ones jump out immediately like Tom from Myspace, the pieces of shit like Zuckerberg always knew going in that they were going to constrict speech. Jack comes across to me as someone who has had to take a step backwards a few hundred times because his executives and investors have come screaming "The ADL demands.." "Mothers Against Guns is mad because shooter xyz posted..." "Merkel is mad people are shit talking her ineptness over migrants..." leading to situations like Trump getting banned and Jack being browbeat into supporting it, even stating that he felt it was an extremely dangerous precedent to make for the company.

Definitely agree, but I think the Trump thing and a lot of the "misinformation" policies we've been seeing are based on the government (not just companies) pressuring the companies using some shady tactics. Like we know Facebook at least is directly getting pressured, all the others probably are too. "Government" here would be the US and MAYBE the EU since no one else has the pull to fuck with social media like that. It's basically the government outsourcing censorship and oppression to private companies since even in the EU you have more rights than you do on Twitter.

 

[NBForest]

rip its are up from 99 cents a can to 1.25

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

SHORTAGE WARNING FOR UK KIWIS -

FIREWORKS ARE IN SHORT SUPPLY, IF YOU WHERE INTENDING TO GET SOME FOR THE 5TH OF NOVEMBER GET THEM NOW - THE PRICES ARE ALSO REALLY HIGH IN COMPARISON TO THE LAST FEW YEARS.

Also Inconel prices have jumped again in the last 48 hours.

 

[borsabil]

Perhaps having everyone's industry and economy be so intertwined with one another's to the point that a small delay in Thailand fig packaging can cripple the supply chain was a bad idea.

This is the actual problem. The Covid lockdowns caused a huge amount of infrastructure to be mothballed and a lot of transport companies went bust.with real deflation in raw materials and goods in the early part of 2020. Lots of companies assumed this was permanent and locked in contracts with struggling suppliers at fixed prices. Instead of deflation there's been a marked and sustained inflation due to monetary dilution. Quantitative easing has gone mainstream with every central bank on the planet printing trillions and trillions in new script. Money is like water, it flows and finds it's own level in higher prices for everything. The Chinese manufacturer who agreed to sell widgets at 10 cents a unit now has to pay costs at 15. No fucking way are they going to fulfill those contracts. On top of that we have endemic labor shortages worldwide as people will not work for the same money they made pre-pandemic and the boomers who run the corporations can't accept that they will have to vastly increase offered wages to fill positions. Mandates and environmental regs aren't helping but ultimately the shortages are a result of inflation combined with supply chain fragility.

 

[FAQnews Correspondent]

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No shortage of mango Bang yet. All is well on the mania-inducing soda front.

Why don't they make a caffeine free version of Bang? They have a huge variety of flavors and they're all good.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

rip its are up from 99 cents a can to 1.25

Jesus, when liquid cancer for the troops is going up, you know shits breaking down.

 

[Bad Gateway]

I’m pretty sure hyperinflation leads to straight up bartering. It’s a breakdown of the monetary system.

lmao you're pretty sure


youre pretty sure. Not positive, not only a little bit sure

but you're pretty sure

 

[Sped Xing]

rip its are up from 99 cents a can to 1.25

Oh my God!


They still make rip its?

lmao you're pretty sure


youre pretty sure. Not positive, not only a little bit sure

but you're pretty sure

People who make unqualified assertions are dumb.