Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation Worse

Re:Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation ... by knownjorbist on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @09:13AM (#27591170)

> One area that I have managed to go fully local in is clothing. Since I live in Denmark, I consider the EU+Norway+Switzerland to be "local"

So this relies on an arbitrary definition of "local". None of what you listed is actually "local" to you, it just benefits from a free trade zone such that it may as well be.

Now zoom out and apply the same thinking to the rest of the world. That's what we COULD have if economic populism arguments weren't so in vogue right now. We are in a globalized world, meet it and work with it.

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Re:Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation ... by KozmoNau7 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:14PM (#27621707)

"Local" is "geographically close to me". Do you use a different definition?

Having common goods like clothes shipped halfway around the globe is pointless and wasteful.

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