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Speaker 1: Adcast. All right, Chris, you go, so welcome, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: it could happen here a podcast that I think, for

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Speaker 1: the first time is just me and Robert. This is

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Speaker 1: this is the very first time that this is happening.

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Speaker 1: You're you're all here at a moment of legendary significance

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Speaker 1: and historic importance. So try to try to face it

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Speaker 1: with the requisite all that's all I ask, yes, And

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Speaker 1: another thing that, man, this is a terrible transition. Something

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Speaker 1: else we're facing with requisite awe is weird shortages of

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Speaker 1: goods and price increases. M So it's fucking rad. I

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Speaker 1: was just at the Asian market today, Um, and they

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Speaker 1: did not have the snack chips that I most prefer

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Speaker 1: Now officially a calamity. Um, we've entered crisis of historic proportion. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think I don't think we're going to live through

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Speaker 1: this one. Nope, we're doing. We can't look at that

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Speaker 1: without the asient snack chips. Like it's the ones that

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Speaker 1: absolutely tragifying. I think there's a couple of things. I mean,

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Speaker 1: do that in the not too distant future. But one

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Speaker 1: of the things that's frustrating to me, although maybe it

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Speaker 1: shouldn't be because I'm probably partly responsible for this, is

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Speaker 1: that this is being um this is often kind of

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Speaker 1: being talked about with by people online. It's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's a sign that like society is crumbling, And what

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Speaker 1: they mean by that is that like, oh, well, we

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Speaker 1: like keep up with with demand, and like the ability

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Speaker 1: more complex than that, and a lot less rooted in

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Speaker 1: a lack of specific resources and more decisions made under

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Speaker 1: capitalism about how the supply chain would work. And it's

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I think it's important because it is

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Speaker 1: you can say it still is like a situation where

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Speaker 1: this is an example of the system falling apart, but

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Speaker 1: it's not falling apart because we don't have the paper

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Speaker 1: to make toilet paper with. It's falling apart because decisions

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Speaker 1: I think there's there's there's a couple of things with

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Speaker 1: lot of different explanations they're floating around for why it's happening,

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Speaker 1: and I think some of them are good, but I

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Speaker 1: And I think it's important because Okay, so, like like

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Speaker 1: my grandma like called me yesterday, like like called our

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Speaker 1: that like the shortages were because American dock workers like

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Speaker 1: be like, well, okay, that does scan like yeah, and

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Speaker 1: in the six season seventies. And weirdly, it's also a

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Speaker 1: story about for cos boomerang. Yeah, yeah, long, throw in,

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Speaker 1: to Cody Um okay, continue brief refresher on what that is.

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Speaker 1: So basically, the Free Coast boomerang is that Okay, if

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Speaker 1: shipping containers hell yeah, which have done like irreparable damage

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Speaker 1: to the mankind. Alright, alright, I'm ready for this. I

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about two threads. They're going to seem like

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Speaker 1: you have two kinds of class war. The first kind

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Speaker 1: that like French President Charles de gaul like flees in

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Speaker 1: attempts to labor organizing in China sort of recently, and

430
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Speaker 1: like yeah, the to be just rest everyone, right, and

431
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 1: so you know this this this is how this is,

432
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,199
Speaker 1: this is the price of cheap labor, right, it's just

433
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:10,360
Speaker 1: incredible state repression. But this is also you know, and

434
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,879
Speaker 1: this is this is a sort of like macro scale

435
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 1: thing of why the supply chains suck because everyone talks

436
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,720
Speaker 1: about like the efficiency of the supply chaine, but the

437
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,959
Speaker 1: supply chains aren't efficient. They make no sense, right if

438
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 1: if if if what you're trying to do is move

439
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:27,200
Speaker 1: something quickly from points A to point B. They make

440
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,600
Speaker 1: no sense because you know, the supply chaines are spread

441
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,440
Speaker 1: all over the world, like in individual parts of being

442
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,680
Speaker 1: made in six countries, right, you have like people will

443
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 1: like for tax dodge purposes, like they'll have one part

444
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 1: of a component's built in one country, and then they'll

445
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 1: move it from another country and to have another part

446
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 1: of it, and then they'll ship all of it to

447
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 1: Mexico and they'll ship it across the border and they'll

448
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 1: have the whole thing be assembled in the USC they

449
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 1: can say it was made in the US. Like there's

450
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,960
Speaker 1: there's all of these things that are just just nonsense

451
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:55,640
Speaker 1: right there. They're not they're not efficient at all. It's

452
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 1: it's completely ridiculous. It's it's this just you know, it's

453
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:02,200
Speaker 1: just completely absurd web. And and the reason why it

454
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 1: is designed like this is as as a giant sort

455
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 1: of kind of asurgency thing. Like the reason the reason

456
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:14,679
Speaker 1: supply chains are are just bad is because there, you know,

457
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 1: they they they're not designed to move things that they're

458
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,920
Speaker 1: designed as an instrument to just like solve the problem

459
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 1: of of of of class power right there there there.

460
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 1: They're designed destroy unions. They're designed to make sure that

461
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 1: nobody ever sort of like gets any ideas about widges,

462
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 1: to make sure nobody gets any ideas about like taking anything.

463
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 1: And so you know, but this this this can work

464
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 1: for a while. The problem is again, like they're not efficient.

465
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: It's it's just it just it is not efficient to

466
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:49,879
Speaker 1: like move have everything made in like six countries and

467
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 1: then you have to semble them somewhere else. Yeah, and

468
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 1: so you know, it's efficient in the sense that it

469
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 1: efficiently maximizes the value of stock prices for like stock

470
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,160
Speaker 1: by backs and stuff. And generally what is meant by

471
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 1: like efficiency in that sense is like what makes the

472
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 1: seventy people who actually own this company the most money.

473
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,919
Speaker 1: That's the efficient thing, but it's it's horribly inefficient in

474
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 1: every practical sense of the word. And that this is

475
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: kind of an interesting change because I mean, you know this,

476
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,399
Speaker 1: this isn't to say that like the supply chains that

477
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,119
Speaker 1: worked before this were like better, because they also sucked

478
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: in a lot of their own ways. But all of

479
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 1: the like efficiency stuff that we're about to talk about

480
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 1: just just in time production, etcetera, etcetera, Like you know

481
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:35,160
Speaker 1: what isn't produced just in time? Sorry, but it isn't

482
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: add right time. Yeah, they're they're they're they're not produced

483
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 1: just in time anymore because the supply chains falling apart.

484
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 1: That's that's what that is. Our promise about our sponsors

485
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,880
Speaker 1: is that, uh, they're they're not at all in time.

486
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 1: Who knows when they'll get your products to you. There's

487
00:25:50,280 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 1: no way to tell, it's impossible to know. We're back, Yeah,

488
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 1: we're back to talk about how, you know, having having

489
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 1: developed an entire network of extremely inefficient supply chains that

490
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 1: just absolutely suck and don't make any sense. Uh, people

491
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 1: tried to make them efficient. And this this is where

492
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:24,639
Speaker 1: we go back to Japan because Japan, you know, I

493
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: guess this is this is this is the other Forks boomerang,

494
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 1: which is that you know, okay, so we we we

495
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: industrialized Japan in order to like fighter colonial wars, right,

496
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 1: But then you know this turns into this huge like

497
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 1: Pikachu face moment when Japan suddenly starts like industrializing more

498
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: efficiently than the US does. It's very funny. And then

499
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 1: and writes a bunch of books that are the premise

500
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 1: of all of them. Is Japan scary? Yeah, it's very funny. Yeah,

501
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,160
Speaker 1: you know, like this is interesting. Is this is an

502
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: interesting thing here, which is that like all of the

503
00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:01,120
Speaker 1: panic around China, there was exactly the same panic like

504
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: around Japan in the in like the seventies, and it's

505
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 1: exactly say like right down to like a bunch of

506
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 1: socialists going like, hey, look this this is a model

507
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: for anti capitalism. Like people people said that about the

508
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,159
Speaker 1: Japanese model, and it's like it's it's all, it's all

509
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 1: the same thing. It's just it's just happening again. But

510
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 1: you know, what what what what what Japan did and

511
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: specifically what Toyota does is create this thing called the

512
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: Toyota production system, which eventually becomes known as just in

513
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 1: time production. And this if you've read anything about sort

514
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 1: of the modern supply chain problems, you've almost certainly heard

515
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: of just in time production or or lean production. And

516
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: just in time and lean production are technically difference, but

517
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 1: the differences don't matter for us. So yeah, and and

518
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 1: this this stuff is derived from what Toyota was sort

519
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: of doing in the post war era. And basically the

520
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: goal of it is, You're you're never supposed to have

521
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,160
Speaker 1: any inventory that's just sitting there, so that the whole

522
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 1: distant supposed to be constantly the whole system is supposed

523
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,679
Speaker 1: to be constantly in motion. So you have parts come in,

524
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 1: they get put into their immediately get put into production line,

525
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: and the finished products immediately shipped out to the stores.

526
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,719
Speaker 1: And you know, the theory is that the stores are

527
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,400
Speaker 1: only going to carry exactly enough products to meet demands.

528
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 1: And it's supposed to be quote unquote flexible, which means

529
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: that it can react to shifts and consumer taste and

530
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: demand by like increasing or decreasing production, and it can't

531
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,399
Speaker 1: do this. This is what we've been seeing for the

532
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 1: entirety of COVID, which is that you know that this

533
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,199
Speaker 1: is this is why every time there's a run of

534
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: toilet paper, everyone runs out of toilet paper, because it

535
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 1: turns out that these systems can't even a ten percent

536
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: increase just completely obliterates this entire system and it just

537
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: collapses and can't produce enough toilet paper. Yeah, and again

538
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: just because it's expensive to store things, it's pricing. This

539
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: is a big part of like why actually the John

540
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: Dear strike, which has the potential to disrupt the status

541
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 1: quote movement more than any strike in recent history, um

542
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: is so potent because John Deere actors are kind of

543
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: a necessary part of the agriculture industry, not just their

544
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 1: ability to sell new tractors, but their ability to repair

545
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: the extant tractors. Like if harvest season comes around and

546
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: there's not spare parts to repair tractors that break, like

547
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: food doesn't get harvested, it's a significant issue John Deere.

548
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about this in another date. But like,

549
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: not only did the most that they could do to

550
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: squeeze their employees to suck out pensions, to cut you know,

551
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: the expenditures on wages, but they they set up their

552
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: factories in such a way that there was no extra space,

553
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: so they could not scale up any of these factories

554
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: to increase demand when they needed to. So that now

555
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 1: that John Deere's going on strike, if they lose a

556
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 1: month of productivity, they can't ever catch up. It's impossible

557
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 1: because they can't actually expand the productive capacity of their factories.

558
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: And because the strike is hitting, they didn't have any

559
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 1: extra spare parts lying around, so if ship gets broken,

560
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: they can't manufacture the parts necessary to keep tractors functioning

561
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: in a lot of American farms because they didn't store

562
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: any thing, because that was not the most efficient thing

563
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: for the economic bottom line of the CEO who gets

564
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty million dollars a year. And anyway,

565
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: this is this is the funny part about this whole thing,

566
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: which is that you know, okay, so this whole supply

567
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: chain system was based around just like destroying destroying the

568
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: organized working class, right, But it's like they were so

569
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 1: successful at it that they've like turned around and fucked

570
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: themselves with it because like you know this, this is

571
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: this is the thing about about the John Deer strike, Right,

572
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 1: It used to be you know, back back back if

573
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 1: you look at like like how how the unions were

574
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: broken in the eighties, or like if you look at

575
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: like the giant like auto strikes you'd have in the seventies, right,

576
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 1: And companies still do this to this day, but like

577
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: there worst at it. The thing they would do is

578
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: so okay. So you you you know, if you're a company,

579
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: you know roughly when a strike is gonna happen, right.

580
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: And the reason you know when a strike is gonna

581
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 1: happen is because in the US, like the way labor

582
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: law works is that like you can you can basically

583
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:00,479
Speaker 1: only strike like when a contract is up. I mean

584
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: you can do wildcats, but it's illegal. But you know, okay,

585
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: so they knew that the audio unions, for example, we're

586
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 1: about to go we're going to go on strike when

587
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: when the contract like was was coming up, and you know,

588
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 1: they'd have spies, and you can get a sense of like,

589
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: you know, okay, so are are how likely are they

590
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: to do the strike? And you know so so that

591
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: that that lets you do things like build up an

592
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: enormous sort of inventorio spare parts. It lets you build

593
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: up an inventory of supplies, and it lets you build

594
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: up you know it basically, it lets you build up

595
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: the capacity you need to outlast a strike. But the

596
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: problem with just in times, they can't do that anymore

597
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: because yeah, they they've they've you know, they've they've completely

598
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 1: fucked themselves by by then the John Deer situation, because

599
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: they hadn't strike, the workers hadn't had gone on strike

600
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: since eighties six. They've been putting funds into their strike

601
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: survival fund for years, but the company had nothing like

602
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: has um. It's rather and this is you know, this,

603
00:31:56,520 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: this is the other part of of of why everything

604
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: like good that's happening right now is happening is that

605
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: they they they you know, they everything has circled back

606
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: around and suddenly all of these companies are, you know,

607
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: we are incredibly vulnerable to strikes again because yeah, as

608
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: you're talking about the just in time production thing, it

609
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: only works if if everything actually comes in on time,

610
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: right Like if if if any if any individual part

611
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: is late, the whole system starts to fall apart and

612
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: then and then you can't repair it. And you know,

613
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: and there's there's a lot of ways that that this

614
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: this this can be very bad. Um, you know, We've

615
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: talked about the John do you. We talked about the

616
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: labor stuff. The other big thing that's happening is COVID,

617
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: which has happened and continues to happen and has killed

618
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: off just enormous parts of the working class. I mean,

619
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: it's like four million dead worldwide or something. And again

620
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: that that's also probably an undercount because that's just direct, guest,

621
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Speaker 1: that's not like, yeah, it's probably like twice that it's

622
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 1: I mean, we're looking at a minimum of se us

623
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: into the US, and again that's probably a million undercounted

624
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,719
Speaker 1: at least. It's it's a horror show, right, And and

625
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: the people they killed with that, you know, like especially

626
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: in the initial phases, like it was just it was

627
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: just that they took a chain chainsaw to the working class.

628
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: And those are a bunch of people who you know

629
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: that they're they're not replaceable, they're they're very highly skilled,

630
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: and they do a bunch of jobs that absolutely suck.

631
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: And now you know, and one of one of the

632
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: places that this this has caused a bunch of problems

633
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: is in the ports, because the other thing that this

634
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: entire supply game relies on is being able to very

635
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: quickly and cheaply moved parts from you know, China to

636
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: the US, from China to Mexico from like Bangladesh too.

637
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: Like symbolia, you have, you have, you have. You have

638
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,479
Speaker 1: to be able to continuously like keep moving stuff around

639
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: in in you know, you have to continuously keep moving

640
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: ships around and you also have to be able to

641
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: load noneload them. And we you know, we we we

642
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: saw like there there was the that when that ship

643
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: got stuck in the Suez. There is that whole yeah

644
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 1: that you know that that that was sex asses where

645
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 1: where when people couldn't get sex asses because the world's

646
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: supply of sex asses for months was on that one ship. Um,

647
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: it was a real crisis for the sex ass community.

648
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: Those are plastic asses that you have sex with if

649
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: you're curious. Yeah, it is. The world appears as an

650
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 1: immense collection of commodities, some of which are sex asses. Yeah,

651
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: most of which, in terms of the ones that matter

652
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 1: sex asses. Yes, sex ass industrial complex is really the

653
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: lynchpin of global capital. But please continue. Yeah, well, you know,

654
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: but the sex ass indictial complex falls apart, and you know,

655
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: and it's not just the ship being stuck in the

656
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: suis like made everything way worse, right, But it was

657
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,800
Speaker 1: very funny, Yeah, it was. It was a cually funny,

658
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: but it was extremely funny. The part the thing that's

659
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: like not very funny is that, like, okay, so in

660
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: order to getting this to work right, you have to

661
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: have a bunch of longshoremen. You have to unload all

662
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: of this ship m hm. And you know, one of

663
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: one of the problems that is that is happening in

664
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,839
Speaker 1: the sort of global supply chain right now is that

665
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: the ships can't be unloaded fast enough. And part of

666
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 1: this is like this job sucks and people just a

667
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: lot of people don't want to do it, and a

668
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: lot of people died and in the and it's causing

669
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 1: this huge problem, and and there's and then there's there's

670
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: another you know, if you want to take like the

671
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: macro perspective about this, it's that this whole system is

672
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: relying on logistics workers and so it also needs you know,

673
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: you need truck drivers. And we're coming back and you

674
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: know in the US is that there's yeah, you know,

675
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 1: there's there's a sort of a truck drivers now because again,

676
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: their job sucks and they've been like just absolutely screwing

677
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: these people over for decades and decades and decades now

678
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: and turning into the subcontractors just not paying them, and

679
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: you know, and and this and when you know, when

680
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 1: the when the ports shut down, like not even shut up,

681
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: like when when the ports are behind unloading stuff, and

682
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 1: when the trucks like that are supposed to be moving

683
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 1: this stuff, there aren't off of them, and like the

684
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: cost of that increases, it throws off the whole system.

685
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: And that's that's another big part of like why this

686
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: whole thing is is sort of imploding. And and it's

687
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: interesting because I remember this. There was like a decade

688
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: where like every other article we'll be talking about how

689
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: they were going to like automate like truck driving, and

690
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: it was like the truck drivers are all going to

691
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: go out of business because they're going to automated. It

692
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:33,839
Speaker 1: just never happened at all. And say the same thing

693
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: with with there. You know, there's I mean, there's been

694
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: some port automization, but like not on the scale that

695
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 1: you know, actually does anything. And part part of the

696
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: reason for that is, you know, I was talking about

697
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: people not investing in research developments. Yeah, so the biggest

698
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: people who aren't doing that are the shipping companies. And

699
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: that's a good time because the shipping basically like container shipping,

700
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: has been taken over by what's essentially just like a

701
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: monopoly of two companies. And those two companies make just

702
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: an indescribable amount of money. They have like a thousand

703
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: percent profits, and they just pay it all out of dividends.

704
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,840
Speaker 1: And so they're not you know, they're not investing in

705
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: any port infrastructure, they're not investing automation. They're just pocketing

706
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 1: the money. And that means that you know, we have

707
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,919
Speaker 1: all that and they're they're spending in in the case

708
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: of John Deere, which I keep going back to a

709
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 1: bunch of money lobbying to make it illegal for farmers

710
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 1: to repair uh their tractors. Yeah, yeah, they're there, you know,

711
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: they they they figured they figured out that like the

712
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: the easiest way to make money is just get the

713
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 1: state to shake people down for you. It's like funck

714
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,439
Speaker 1: like investing in making anything that we have better. Let's

715
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: just you know, like let's just turn the state into

716
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 1: a debt collector. And and it's interesting because so this

717
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: this is the part of the supply chain crisis that

718
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,800
Speaker 1: like Biden has been focusing on. But Biden's plan, Biden's

719
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: plans great. Biden's plan is literally make the longshoremen work harder.

720
00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 1: So his plan is here, there are we better, baby, Yeah,

721
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna make We're gonna keep the ports

722
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: open twenty four hours a day, seven days a week,

723
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: and like make people work weekends now. And then he

724
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 1: also got FedEx Walmart and Ups to do twenty four

725
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: hour or seven day a week shipping. So yeah, the

726
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: solution is literally just like feed more workers into a

727
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: grinder and make them work longer, which is which is

728
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: great and and you know will not in any way backfire. No,

729
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: it's fine. I don't even think we should be talking

730
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: about it. No, it's great, it's gonna, it's it's yeah,

731
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 1: it's you know, but I get like this is the thing,

732
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: Like this won't work and it can't. And the reason

733
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: it won't work is that, like part of the reason

734
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: there's a shortage is that, you know, it's it's not

735
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 1: it's not just about the like the fact that people

736
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: aren't paying enough. It's about the fact that these jobs

737
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: are just awful. Like you have people, you have people

738
00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: working like twelve hour shifts that start at like six am,

739
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 1: then they have to wake another twelve hours shift in

740
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: hours later, and that these peop having to do with

741
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 1: this over and over and over again, and it's well,

742
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: and they don't like the way that these shifts are

743
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: usually put on them. Is that, like you'll find out

744
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,280
Speaker 1: when you come in that instead of working six am

745
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 1: to four pm or whatever, they're actually gonna need you

746
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,279
Speaker 1: to stay until eight and then they're gonna need you

747
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 1: to come in. By the way, you're gonna need to

748
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: come in like two hours early tomorrow. So you'll realize that,

749
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: like in between your two shifts, you have a total

750
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: of eight hours to get home and sleep. And if

751
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: you say no, uh uh. While the idea is that

752
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: if you say no, like you won't have the job

753
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: it's required now, the reality is that most of these

754
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: companies are also pretty desperate to have these workers. And

755
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: a lot of these manufacturing and packing firms, it takes

756
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: time to train people up and then they quit a

757
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 1: couple of weeks in because the work is miserable and

758
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: the schedule is fucking miserable. Um, and it's yeah, it's all,

759
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's simultaneously like deeply inhuman but also

760
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: is leading to a situation. There's a reason why there's

761
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 1: so many strikes on right now is that there is

762
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 1: opportunity because in sort of the chasing of short term profits,

763
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: a lot of these fucking oligarchs have exposed themselves in

764
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: a in a pretty vulnerable position. Yeah, and I think

765
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 1: you know this, this is coming back to a sort

766
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: of the other way that when when there was a

767
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,839
Speaker 1: crisis in in the seventies, the other way they solve

768
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 1: this was just authoritarianism, right it was you know, is

769
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: this is the pinos a solution, right like, oh, like

770
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,240
Speaker 1: workers are using control compromids, Okay, well just shoot them,

771
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,840
Speaker 1: right and yeah and yeah, and this is you know,

772
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 1: they're they're they're finally running into a point where you know,

773
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 1: this is this is the solution they've been trying to

774
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 1: do now with with with this crisis, is you know,

775
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: the the they're relying on the fact that just the

776
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 1: workplace is just indescribably authoritarian. I mean, it's it's like

777
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a dictatorship on a scale that is

778
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: like like even to like the most despotic absolute monarch

779
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: is just like onion saginable, like your boss gets to

780
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: control like when you ship, like they get a control

781
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 1: when you eat, they get a control exactly what you're doing,

782
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 1: like at all times, they get control when you do it,

783
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: they get a control like when the next time you're

784
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: going to do it is. They don't even have to

785
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,359
Speaker 1: tell you when it's going to be untel like you

786
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 1: show up and you know, for the this is this

787
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,360
Speaker 1: is this has been the gamble for for you know,

788
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 1: capitalism bit tire existence, which is that like you just

789
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: have to take this and eat ship or they get

790
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 1: to take away your ability to eat, get medical care

791
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 1: and have a place to leave to live. But that's

792
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:40,360
Speaker 1: not true anymore. Like you can just say no, you

793
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 1: can tell them to funk off. You can, you know

794
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 1: you can. You can, you can organize a union. You

795
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 1: can just fucking just leave your job, like just leave it,

796
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: fucking walk out. And this is why we focus. I mean,

797
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: this is number one why within the context of unions,

798
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: strike funds are so important, but also why mutual aid

799
00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: is so important. Is it it potentially when organized well enough,

800
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 1: provides people with the option to like, well, how are

801
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 1: you going to feed yourself? Well there's people in my

802
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,280
Speaker 1: community who want to make sure that I'm fed because

803
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,400
Speaker 1: they believe in what I'm striking for. Um, that's the

804
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 1: promise of all of that. That's the practical behind the

805
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: kind of high minded you know, anarchists of just you

806
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:22,359
Speaker 1: know whatever, theorizing is the ability that like, well, this

807
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: actually is a weapon too. Yeah, and I think you

808
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 1: know what else is a weapon? Christ I hope you're

809
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:35,879
Speaker 1: not being sponsored some of them. I hope we are. Chris. Look,

810
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: I've I've said before for weapons. I'll read any ad

811
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 1: for a weapons manufacturer as long as they send me

812
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: some weapons. So come on, guys, get on it. You

813
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: could uh, you could be you could be in the

814
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 1: middle of this conversation. Rayphaon, you know, send me a

815
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 1: couple of missile guidance chips Lockheed Martin. You know, you

816
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:55,839
Speaker 1: want to give me an F thirty five, We'll we'll

817
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,879
Speaker 1: plug you. You know. That's what's that's that's the deal.

818
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: That's how it works. Baby. All right, we're back. Hopefully,

819
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,440
Speaker 1: hopefully you have now heard the advertisement for knife missile

820
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 1: to knife missile harder now with like five knives, a

821
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,839
Speaker 1: thing that I am not making. It actually exists Yeah,

822
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: people keep being surprised that the r nin X is

823
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 1: a real thing. And yeah, but there's another one. There's

824
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: there's there's one with more knives. They put more knives. Yeah,

825
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 1: what do you You're not gonna look again, You can't.

826
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: It's like with apple products, right, planned obsolescence is a

827
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: critical You have to You can't just rest on your laurels.

828
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: You're gonna run out of money. So you gotta make

829
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,399
Speaker 1: another knife missile with a couple of more knives. Yeah,

830
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 1: just keep keep adding knives. Nothing can ever go wrong.

831
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: Do not ask any questions about why you're developing knife missiles.

832
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:56,919
Speaker 1: Please send me one and like a drone or three.

833
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:01,799
Speaker 1: I swear to God I'll use it for legal purposes. Yeah. So,

834
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 1: I guess the last thing that I that that's really

835
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: interesting about this moment that doesn't usually happen is that

836
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 1: you know, okay, so if you, if you, if you,

837
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 1: if you, you read your very basic marks, right. One

838
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 1: of the things Marks talks about is that there's this

839
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,359
Speaker 1: thing called the reserve Army of Labor, which is it's

840
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: just like, you know, there's a bunch of people who

841
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 1: are just always unemployed and they get along by doing

842
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:31,800
Speaker 1: sort of like odd jobs, like you know, like my, my,

843
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: my quintessential person for this is like if you ever

844
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: go on a subway, there's you know, it's it's the

845
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 1: guy selling candy bars in the subway. Yeah right, it's

846
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: people who quasi legal you know, sometimes they just kind

847
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: of like doing whatever, you know, rants we call them.

848
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 1: In the West Coast, you have a lot of those,

849
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 1: like yeah, people who tream marijuana for a couple of

850
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 1: months and then just kind of like crashing you know,

851
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 1: camp sites the rest of the year or whatever. Like yeah,

852
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of those folks for sure. Yeah. And

853
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Speaker 1: you know, and like the number of these people who

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Speaker 1: have been just like kicked out of like the formal

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Speaker 1: labor system has been increasing for a long time. But

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Speaker 1: what's interesting about this moment is that you know, every

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Speaker 1: every strike you see has a second strike behind it,

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Speaker 1: and that strike is the informal general strike, which is

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Speaker 1: just again people just quitting their jobs and leaving. And

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Speaker 1: you have this weird moment where where normally the sort

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00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: of reserve army of labor is this thing that like

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00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: capitalism can always sort of rely on as a way

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Speaker 1: to sort of solve its problems. Because it's like, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: all right, if if you're not going to do this job,

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Speaker 1: we can bring another person. But you know this, this

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Speaker 1: is a weird moment where like the reserve Army of

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Speaker 1: labor is like fighting on our side. M h. And

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Speaker 1: the fact that all of these people are just like

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00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 1: you know that they're seeing the just incredible authoritarianism of

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00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 1: these workplaces that just horrific abuse. The fact that you

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00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 1: know they're they're being in a lot of cases, just

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00:45:56,120 --> 00:46:00,120
Speaker 1: asked to show up and die, and they're saying, oh,

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00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 1: is a really sort of is a really incredibly powerful thing.

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Speaker 1: And when when when you add that to the fact

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00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: that you know, all these companies have completely screwed themselves

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00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 1: with how they designed the supply chains, it's it's all,

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Speaker 1: it's all come back around and suddenly all all the

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00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: supply chain stuff that they carefully laid out over decades

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00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,320
Speaker 1: and decades decades is a way to just like break

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00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: the union movement and make sure nobody ever asked more wages.

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00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's it's it's it's been revealed to

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00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 1: be incredibly fragile and you know, weak to our attack,

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00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:34,760
Speaker 1: and that leads us, I think, to this other tension

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Speaker 1: in Biden's plan to sort of like revive the economy,

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00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:42,840
Speaker 1: which is that so the US technically speaking has this

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Speaker 1: like very large central planning capability, but it only has

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00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 1: it to like build weapons. So you know, like the

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00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 1: army has this incredible ability like that. There there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of bullets, you know it despite the huge stress

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00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: on the bullets supply chain, it really has scale. You know,

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Speaker 1: the prices have increased, but we're we're still still still

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00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: getting bullets. America is great at making bullets. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: less great at keeping tractors working, but be a problem. Yeah,

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00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,320
Speaker 1: then you're like even if even remember at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the pandemic, it was like the US just couldn't

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Speaker 1: produce masks, like we said, we we never we never

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Speaker 1: like did that, right like that, like the government never

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00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: at any point was like we're just gonna make mass

899
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: and given the people, they just never did it. And

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00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: so you know, our mass supplies, all those supplic chains suck.

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Speaker 1: And the only way that like the States can intervene

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00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: and get the supply chains to work is by doing

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Speaker 1: one of two things. It's by either doing a thing

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Speaker 1: Biden was doing, which is just go to a bunch

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Speaker 1: of companies and tell them to make all of their

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00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 1: workers work harder, which is the thing that like, you know,

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Speaker 1: totally won't backfire or explode in his face. And then

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00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:54,319
Speaker 1: the second thing is for Biden basically to like do

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00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: all this saber rattling about how we have to have

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00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:00,360
Speaker 1: like medical supply chains in the US because national defense

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Speaker 1: or something. And that's the second thing he's trying to do.

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Speaker 1: But you know that just that just makes the problem worse, right,

913
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Speaker 1: because what once you once you lose the ability to outsource, you,

914
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: you lose the hammer even beating the unions with. And

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Speaker 1: so you know, all all of the sort of all

916
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: of the tendencies that are you know, making things like

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00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 1: bad and scary right now are also weirdly making this.

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00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 1: You know, the fact that prices are rising, right, the

919
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: fact that there's all these shortages. It's it's it's making

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Speaker 1: this like the best moment two, you know, it's it's

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00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: it's making this the best moment that and that anyone's

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Speaker 1: had in ages to actually try to make something better.

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Speaker 1: And and and the important thing is we're starting to

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00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 1: see it happen. And yeah, and we're we're we're we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk more about St. October and sort of the

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Speaker 1: strike wave and the coming you know, weeks and months.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, we're gonna we're gonna be hitting this pretty hard,

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Speaker 1: even just next week. Um, we have a lot of

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Speaker 1: stuff in the pipeline. Kind of wish we've gotten to

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00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 1: it earlier, but there's a lot of stuff to talk

931
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 1: about in the world y happening that that's within our milieu.

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Speaker 1: It turns out when you're when you're specific focus is

933
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 1: things falling apart. Uh, you're always behind uncovering all the

934
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:24,839
Speaker 1: things that are falling on the park. But I think

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Speaker 1: it is a good time to to to drive this

936
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Speaker 1: to a close, to drag this episode out behind the

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00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: farm the barn, and and and shoot it and bury

938
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Speaker 1: it in a shallow grave and and break its bones

939
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Speaker 1: with the hammers that the police can't identify it. Chris Um,

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Speaker 1: thank you for putting this together. I got anything anything

941
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 1: else to say? Uh, quit your job, you or you

942
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,359
Speaker 1: and or unionize your workplace and or take it over

943
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 1: and run it yourselves, because Lord knows the people who

944
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: are telling you what to do, just literally do not

945
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: or if you die. Yeah, I mean with with that Sorry, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I was just gonna Uh, I don't know what I

947
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Speaker 1: was gonna do, Chris, I don't know what I was

948
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Speaker 1: gonna do. Do do Go go do something. You know

949
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 1: you're you're listening to things, Go do something. Yeah, and

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