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If you're an established adult who owns a house and two cars, your assets have skyrocketted. You're having a great time.
how? can you capitalize on that upside somehow? sell them, live in a tent until prices are down?
Heard of someone who sold while the real estate market here is superheated and plans to rent until it drops. Personally, I don't expect it to drop for a while yet (it hasn't really dropped for decades here).
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Capitalism really promotes planned durability.
Cars are 1.) expensive enough and 2.) required by many people to work in order to get through the day that, while plenty of people also want the latest and greatest, most value reliability and long lifetime a lot. (To the point where these are tracked pretty carefully by organizations like CR.)
And you can also add laser eye and cosmetic surgery: have advanced by leaps and bounds in terms of safety and quality, while actually becoming less costly for the consumer.
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I thought Toyota invented not doing that.
Yes, they more or less invented the concept of just in time delivery, but they also suffered supply chain issues after the Fukushima earth quake. After the latter incident they made the risk calculation that inventory of some parts was worth the expense.
We tried to order 100 and were told the lead time was 36 weeks. We got through it with existing stock, scrounging displays from dead boards. Buying different displays and replacing the backlights. Small orders of 10 here, 15 there. And pushing a few customers out a month or two.
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How?
Because people equal JIT with close to zero buffer inventory. JIT is basically a concept of defining the correct and minimal buffer. If that's close zero, cool. If it's more than zero, cool as well. It also puts a lot of emphasis on lot sizes and lead-times. No one in the right mind would implement JIT for stuff involving sea freight without buffer stock close to production.
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Seems like long term the human race is going to lose this ability if something serious is not done to reduce the complexity of building these things. This pandemic has shown that everything is super fragile and with Climate Change on the horizon I cannot believe they decided to build this damn thing in Arizona of all places. Maybe the collapse people were right and we should be working on CollapseOS [1]: https://coll…
What makes Arizona a bad place vs other places it might go to? No place will be spared the effects of climate change. Water use is a concern, but it sounds like they plan to recycle nearly all of it.
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The nightmarish results of agricultural subsidies in the US is an excellent reason to not involve the government in the chip shortage.
But agricultural studies are working as intended? The U.S. government has decided that it's in our national security interest to remain a net exporter of crops. If World War III broke out and all the borders shut down, America would still be able to feed herself. The U.K. wouldn't. There would be mass starvation in much of the first world, and people would say "the government should've done something." All the diabet…
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> picking and choosing which industries are important voting bases. And on a bribes and corruption basis, to some extent, too? For example, I never thought about what are the strategic industries, when voting.
Most voters aren't as rational as you are. Though, I suspect that you would not vote against your livelihood if it became a political topic. West Virginia has "Friends of Coal" license plates. Indiana has IUOE license plates. etc.
Wow, I had no idea
I work with software, maybe in a way then I'm in a happy bubble
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I don't think it's possible. At least not road-legal in Europe. There must be hundreds of chips in a modern car: Engine, ABS, wireless key, cruise control, radio, audio, electric windows, gps, battery management, airbags, seat-belt check, sensors, climate control, ...
you could drop: wireless key, cruise control, gps easily possibly climate control (not needed for short rides, a fan will do), maybe even radio (can always add later) and electric windows I'd buy that car if it was cheaper... I'd need AWD though, trailer hitch...