Supply chain affecting anyone?

My Roon Nucleus took about 3 weeks to deliver.  My McIntosh integrated is taking a couple of months (was told up front, ~8 weeks from order).  And now the speakers in January, which is ~3.5 months from when I placed the order (assuming they arrive on time).

What a lot of us are missing is it is not just supply chain and logistics but labor also.
Demand is high for skilled and unskilled labor globally and the labor pools are quite shallow.
In countries throughout Europe and Asia many are just staying home because of the fear of COVID19 and it's variants.

Labor demographic in China and America is a good point...

Restriction caused by pandemics and especially by the stupidest health politic of all times in history across more of  the rich countries..

Economic traditional war means and methods between China and America and the rest of the world...

Robotisation and the coming stagflation will add something...

But the "third" world war has already begun and it is not one nation against another one so much like in the past, it is a war in the cyber space of one against all others .... All our vital links are in network: water, alimentation etc NOT only  sensible information...

A.I. and all bio technology are more  an arm race than an economical race now more than ever...

Then i am not optimist....

Technology controlled by cporporations without heart is called completely wrongly "science" by most, but here the religious cultist are ritght: it is autodestruction...




Sciences is not knowledge, and "science" is not technology....Awakening of humanity is no more a wish or a dream but a fact now and a necessity....It is the only optimistic point....

Labor shortages could be alleviated by immigrant labor supply, doubt that'll happen much anywhere. Look at Great Britain, brexit brought about truck driver shortages, only made it more difficult for immigrant labor. Seems to me someone needs to work and pay taxes.

And this is not simply a pandemic related issue, the pandemic only accelerated a long term trend.

Seems to me someone needs to work and pay taxes.

We are no more in this kind of "normalcy" sorry....And it is not the way this "world" work at all anymore for decades now....

Debt, work, taxes, prices,etc all that is based on a notion of what "values" and "money" and "supplies" are in relation to one another... This relation is completely broken or in bad hands control...

This is an amazing view from our chair to each one of us: the world change more in 2 years that in 50 or hundred years in the past century... the world has lived more change visible or not yet visible for us than in the last millenium cumulated years...


Only one exemple: technology evolution laws are an evolution now completely out of the human hand... WHY ? Because we put human values BEHIND power...
We are all any one of us placed between the false choice of Ray Kurzweil idea about life OR an Amish way of life....Why?


A supply chain is NOT a supply chain only , it is a playground between power and value...It is not first a technology but an ethical and moral imagination more than anything else... We forgot it , we die....




«Changes in the body are so swift it is a cadaveric body snowball chain or a complete metamorphosis of the larva»- Anonymus Smith

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