• @Zenith@lemm.ee
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    04 days ago

    Sure but scarcity due to broken supply chains is a real thing. It doesn’t matter how wealthy you are if you physically cannot get your supplies where they are needed there will be scarcity and it will not be artificial

    • Michael
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      3 days ago

      We do need to have more self-sufficient societal development. Shipping critical materials (raw or otherwise) and critical goods across the world doesn’t make a whole lot of sense unless something is unique or a very rare resource.

      We don’t need to put our eggs all in one basket — global supply lines e.g. should be for specialties and artisan goods, to ship excesses in production, and be used for aid.

      The current global trade system relies on exploitation and slavery (even child slavery e.g. with cocoa).

      We suck third-world countries of everything they have; their land, their labor, their resources, and their goods — and all the wealth concentrates into the hands of the very few in first-world countries. The result is the stagnation of the exploited region’s development — we trap them into these conditions of servitude.