supply chains are people

[hitchhiker]

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/09/pandemic-supply-chain-nightmare-slow-shipping/620147/

Both at home and abroad, labor is the ghost in the machine. The supply chain is really just people, running sewing machines or loading pallets or picking tomatoes or driving trucks. Sometimes, it’s people in the workforce bubbles of foreign factories, eating and sleeping where they work, so companies can keep manufacturing sneakers through a Delta outbreak. The pandemic has tied the supply chain in knots because it represents an existential threat to the lives of the humans who toil in it.

Comments

[cjsmith]

Aptly titled.

[amaebi]

Hark! What is that sound of stirring?

Could it be Karl Marx rolling over in Highgate Cemetery?

[amaebi]

Say, remember early in the Joffrey administration, when its visionary leader proclaimed that one can easily rehire expert labor at the drop of a hat if needed? Ah, that Just in Time religion.

[hitchhiker]

haha, yeah, yet another great prediction that everyone could have told him was wrong, and probably did

[amaebi]

I expect they all knew it was bullshit and didn't care, being profoundly anti-expertise and profoundly anti-labour.

[minoanmiss]

Word.