Re:What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?
by marcosdumay on Thursday October 28, 2021 @04:05PM
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> In the last 130 years there have been two world wars and two global pandemics.
Delays on intercontinental shipping and lack of availability of a few durable goods is a perfectly fine price to pay on that frequency. Optimizing to surviving a global pandemics without any problem would be ridiculous expensive.
Yes, specifically on the subject of cars, the manufacturers seem to be accepting way more risk than what is sensible. But that's their decision to make. If they were just left to face the costs of their decisions, they would stop making bad ones quite quickly.
(By the way, there were 2 flu pandemics similar or worse than this one on the last 100 years. That's one more than you are counting.)
Delays on intercontinental shipping and lack of availability of a few durable goods is a perfectly fine price to pay on that frequency. Optimizing to surviving a global pandemics without any problem would be ridiculous expensive.
Yes, specifically on the subject of cars, the manufacturers seem to be accepting way more risk than what is sensible. But that's their decision to make. If they were just left to face the costs of their decisions, they would stop making bad ones quite quickly.
(By the way, there were 2 flu pandemics similar or worse than this one on the last 100 years. That's one more than you are counting.)