Supply chain affecting anyone?


Just found out from my dealer that my Sonus Faber speakers won’t deliver until early January (ordered in early October). For reference, he says it normally takes 2-3 weeks. 
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@mtbiker29One dealer does not make a supply chain. To believe that all the shortages of labor and parts has no effect on the supply chain is wrong
 Ridiculously wrong. Go ahead and believe fake news if you like. Just because they won't show it doesn't mean it isn't happening.. it is. 
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.