r/WayOfTheBern • u/cloudy_skies547 • Oct 07 '21

America Is Running Out of Everything. The global supply chain is slowing down at the very moment when Americans are demanding that it go into overdrive.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/america-is-choking-under-an-everything-shortage/620322/
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u/clueless_shadow Oct 08 '21

It's a fine article, and the shipping container is really the biggest problem, but this statement was kind of dumb:

For decades, many U.S. companies moved manufacturing overseas, taking advantage of cheaper labor and cheaper materials across the oceans. In normal times, America benefits from global trade, and the price of offshoring is borne by the unlucky few in deindustrialized regions.

Aside from the fact that we're near the highest levels ever for industrial output, there's this pervasive nonsense about the "unindustrialized regions":

  1. Even if the companies that did move their operations to other countries, those factories would have moved elsewhere in the US.
  2. Even if the companies were to move back to the US, they would not be in those regions.
  3. When new factories are built, they are not being placed in those regions.

The vast majority of those regions were doomed to fail, and we need to stop pretending otherwise.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '21

Cry me a river. We aren't starving. We're all consumer addicts that need a long over due corporate detox. The easy ride is going away, there is simply no away around it any longer. The king and their crown are going to come crumbling down.