The global economy was a complicated beast but one that mostly worked most of the time. Now for reasons that may be known to some but certainly not to all the wheels are coming off and supply is not keeping up with demand. The results so far have not been good (chip shortage, car shortage, food price inflation, etc.). Articles like this make me think that we ain’t seen nothing yet.
Another shortage that I feel is building up in the economy is that of labor. I see signs all around that people don’t want to work. Maybe they’re afraid of the covid. Maybe they can earn just as much sitting on their couch sucking off the govt teat. Not really sure. I could easily imagine that the RR is finding that they have no one to offload their trains and so they are forced into this action. Or.. maybe there is no one to drive the trucks that would take the containers to their next destination. Either way, I’m sure the RR would rather be moving trains and collecting revenue then sitting idle. The fact that they’ve chosen the latter must mean that something is blocking them. I think it could well be reflective of a labor shortage in the economy.
“The global economy was a complicated beast but one that mostly worked most of the time. Now for reasons that may be known to some but certainly not to all the wheels are coming off and supply is not keeping up with demand. The results so far have not been good (chip shortage, car shortage, food price inflation, etc.). Articles like this make me think that we ain’t seen nothing yet.”
A nation of retired people, office workers, and kids sitting in class rooms are producers.(sarcasm)
Don’t worry I’m sure robots will fix it?(sarcasm)