<story><title>It feels like America is running out of everything</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/america-is-choking-under-an-everything-shortage/620322/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gopalv</author><text>&amp;gt;  need to discuss why major news outlets were parroting government propaganda that shortages and inflation were transitory&lt;p&gt;Because announcing there will be shortages is guaranteed to produce shortages.&lt;p&gt;I used to buy a sum total of six rolls of TP in 2019 (I use a bidet, so this is mainly for guests).&lt;p&gt;Right now I have a box of 24 in the house with two used all through 2020 + 2021 (no guests, that&amp;#x27;s why).&lt;p&gt;So that&amp;#x27;s 22+ rolls which I have taken off the market without utility, which is because the week I went looking for TP it wasn&amp;#x27;t there and you could order in bulk instead.&lt;p&gt;They pulled the lever on the trolley problem, therefore it is their fault, but not pulling is also a choice with damage.</text></item><item><author>iammisc</author><text>More importantly than this, we need to discuss why major news outlets were parroting government propaganda that shortages and inflation were transitory, when they were obviously not. Major news outlets claimed that &amp;#x27;new economics&amp;#x27; would mean that the expected inflation and shortages would not come to pass. Instead of critically questioning government official&amp;#x27;s proclamations of a new economics, outlets gladly parroted this position. This is a far cry from the critical reporting of the 2016-2020 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cle</author><text>&amp;gt; They pulled the lever on the trolley problem, therefore it is their fault, but not pulling is also a choice with damage.&lt;p&gt;Ruining institutional trust by patronizing and lying seems like much worse long-term damage than toughing out a TP shortage.</text></comment>
<story><title>It feels like America is running out of everything</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/america-is-choking-under-an-everything-shortage/620322/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gopalv</author><text>&amp;gt;  need to discuss why major news outlets were parroting government propaganda that shortages and inflation were transitory&lt;p&gt;Because announcing there will be shortages is guaranteed to produce shortages.&lt;p&gt;I used to buy a sum total of six rolls of TP in 2019 (I use a bidet, so this is mainly for guests).&lt;p&gt;Right now I have a box of 24 in the house with two used all through 2020 + 2021 (no guests, that&amp;#x27;s why).&lt;p&gt;So that&amp;#x27;s 22+ rolls which I have taken off the market without utility, which is because the week I went looking for TP it wasn&amp;#x27;t there and you could order in bulk instead.&lt;p&gt;They pulled the lever on the trolley problem, therefore it is their fault, but not pulling is also a choice with damage.</text></item><item><author>iammisc</author><text>More importantly than this, we need to discuss why major news outlets were parroting government propaganda that shortages and inflation were transitory, when they were obviously not. Major news outlets claimed that &amp;#x27;new economics&amp;#x27; would mean that the expected inflation and shortages would not come to pass. Instead of critically questioning government official&amp;#x27;s proclamations of a new economics, outlets gladly parroted this position. This is a far cry from the critical reporting of the 2016-2020 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godshatter</author><text>Companies are in love with JIT, so they don&amp;#x27;t warehouse many products.  When disruptions in the supply chain happen it&amp;#x27;s then up to the customers to do their warehousing for them.</text></comment>