Can you elaborate on this? Just In Time delivery? Is this a US thing?
Cost of living is too high, put it on credit.
Your alternative is starve now.
Either way, this is about to get a lot more bonkers in roughly the next 30 to 60 days as Just In Time delivery… kinda just, stops working, and grocery stores will have to both raise prices and ration items per customer per week to deal with shortages and try to minimize in-store injuries and deaths.
Go look up a compilations of black friday shopping stampedes.
Imagine that, but for groceries, every time a grocery store restocks… for the forseeable future.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Yeah, put super simply:
Minimize needed actual storage space and time a thing spenda in storage… by relying on very frequent and consistent logistics.
Its very efficient in the sense of minimizing operating costs…
But it is also extremely fragile, a minor perturbation can fuck shit up for weeks or months.
… And we are getting… well basically the most major disruption in the history of JIT as a logistics paradigm.
hazeydreams@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Really thought we would have learned that JIT is a horrible strategy after covid… That was only a few years ago…
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
America follows Seinfeld rules:
No hugging.
No learning.
SpaceShort@feddit.uk 2 days ago
That’s probably why the capital class want fascism. Because if that happens in a democracy, they would have their capital expropriated.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Historically speaking, basically, yes, the capitalist class essentially always sides with a nascent fascist movement as it is opposed to making any truly meaningful concessions to workers.
But it is important to note that fascism is, or arises from… an ostensible capitalist democracy … in decay.
It arises as a reaction to over exploitation of the capitalists.
The fascists are always incompetent idiots at actually running anything, actual policy… beyond being brutally indimidating and violent bullies.
But! They promise growth and stability.
Morons believe them. Many of these morons… are the capitalists.
This works well for a while, but eventually, fascist mismanagement leads to the capitalists actually having a whole bunch of their businesses collapse, as the economy broadly suffers, or maybe its war time babyyyy and oh well turns out that its also bad to fund endless foreign invasions and/or be invaded yourself.
But, by then, its too late.
The capitalists sided with the fascists initially, to avoid structural concessions to workers… but now that everything is fucked, and/or dear leader / the party has some incomprehensible zany nonsense plan… well now the capitalists mostly get either outright or functionally nationalized, and lose even more than if they had just gone with the comparatively more minor concessions to workers.
Poison chalice.
Prisoner’s Dilemma, game theoretic failure, that humanity just keeps replicatinf with minor variations and new flavors.
… Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was…
SpaceShort@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Thank you for the explanation. I hope it doesn’t turn into nuclear war. What’s happening in India and Pakistan doesn’t look good.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yeah… fingers crossed, I guess.