https://www.reddit.com/r/Shortages/comments/ps8vsn/potential_u_joint_shortage_an_addition_to_the/

I've been paying particularly close attention to shortages along these lines. The chips and special parts going into our logistics system are at the root of making everything it transports possible. We don't even have the fancy AI trucks yet and yet the US runs on a network of semis and fleet trucks that are rapidly running out of replacement parts. The breakdowns in repair/production capacity are so scattershot that there's no telling what the transport delay will impact next. Those chips compete for production space with every other kind of vehicular computer system, let alone other kinds of chips a micorprocessor plant could retool to make.

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  • CopsDyingIsGood [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    hate to sound like a Luddite

    Why? The luddites were correct and unironically did nothing wrong (except lose)

    • sun [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      They were certainly wrong to think that an artisan class could be sustained under capitalism, and we couldn’t have achieved the development of productive forces needed to build high-stage capitalism or socialism without their failure

        • sun [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Definitely, and you can’t really fault them for trying to fight for their class interest