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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    Investor: "These redundancies really seem inefficient, you know?"

    Logistics: "They seem that way when everything is running great, but when things go bad we very well might need them."

    Investor: "What could ever go wrong in modern society?"

    Logistics: "I could think of a few things, but it's the things I can't think about that scare me. Having redundancies soften whatever blow we might get hit with."

    Investor: "You are just a worry wart. I axed all the redundancies, and now I'm making even more money!"

    (sometime later after supply line disruptions)

    Investor: "This is all the Marxist's fault. We need to stop with the government 'handouts' to workers, so I can get that money and force them back to work!"