• Zenith@lemm.ee
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    6 hours 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@slrpnk.net
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      5 hours 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 an unique good 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 specialities and artisan goods, and a appropriation of excess or 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.