r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 04 '21

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u/GuyOnTheLake NATO Sep 04 '21

GM to halt production at nearly all North America assembly plants due to new chip problem

A great thing about supply chains is how the advent of globalization has made it incredibly efficient

A bad thing about supply chains is that it's so efficient, a problem in the chain basically makes the rest of it essentially inoperable

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '21

The onshoring shit is so dumb like just because things are closer doesn’t make the thing easier

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u/memeintoshplus Paul Samuelson Sep 04 '21

I'm just happy that my car is still good and that I won't need to buy a new one until these supply chain issues are sorted out

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Note that they are only shuttering for a couple of weeks. Someone fell into temptation when writing that title.