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. By Derek Thompson

  • Atavist [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Thanks for the explanation and that blog. I'll check it out.

    But something's got to give at some point right, where it reaches a breaking point?

    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      But something’s got to give at some point right, where it reaches a breaking point?

      Yeah, and there's ways it can be mitigated. That blog has some sort-of-case-studies about it. But the idea of the TRPF hypothesis is that it's eventually not reconcilable and the economy will destroy itself. For example, imagine an economy where no one worked and everything was fully automated. How would it be possible to profit?

        • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          I always hesitate to use "inevitable" because it feels like counting chickens before they've hatched. For example, society could destroy itself in a climate apocalypse. :agony-mescaline:

          But, like, eventually? Yeah, things should tend towards it.