WEBVTT - Why Our Supply Chains Suck 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:13.320 Adcast. All right, Chris, you go, so welcome, Welcome to 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:15.680 it could happen here a podcast that I think, for 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.000 the first time is just me and Robert. This is 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:21.119 this is the very first time that this is happening. 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:24.360 You're you're all here at a moment of legendary significance 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:28.720 and historic importance. So try to try to face it 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:32.240 with the requisite all that's all I ask, yes, And 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.600 another thing that, man, this is a terrible transition. Something 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:41.080 else we're facing with requisite awe is weird shortages of 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:45.559 goods and price increases. M So it's fucking rad. I 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:50.159 was just at the Asian market today, Um, and they 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:53.200 did not have the snack chips that I most prefer 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:59.560 Now officially a calamity. Um, we've entered crisis of historic proportion. Yeah, 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:01.520 I think I don't think we're going to live through 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.040 this one. Nope, we're doing. We can't look at that 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.720 without the asient snack chips. Like it's the ones that 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.520 are like they're like pieces of seaweed but that have 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:14.679 been temp fried and temper a batter's completely out tragic, 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:19.039 absolutely tragifying. I think there's a couple of things. I mean, 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.399 you've got a script, so I'll probably just let you 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.240 do that in the not too distant future. But one 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.320 of the things that's frustrating to me, although maybe it 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.160 shouldn't be because I'm probably partly responsible for this, is 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.440 that this is being um this is often kind of 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.280 being talked about with by people online. It's like, oh, 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:39.399 it's a sign that like society is crumbling, And what 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.160 they mean by that is that like, oh, well, we 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.440 just don't have stuff, like we're we're not able to 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.319 like keep up with with demand, and like the ability 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.080 to produce these things is crumbling. And it's actually much 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.200 more complex than that, and a lot less rooted in 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:56.240 a lack of specific resources and more decisions made under 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.280 capitalism about how the supply chain would work. And it's 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:01.160 I don't know, I think it's important because it is 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.320 you can say it still is like a situation where 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.840 this is an example of the system falling apart, but 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.160 it's not falling apart because we don't have the paper 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.200 to make toilet paper with. It's falling apart because decisions 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.280 were made in order to increase the stock prices of 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.360 companies by reducing the amount of products that they kept 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:24.440 on hand, and that's led to an incredibly fragile system 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:28.560 that that did nothing well but maximize profits. And I think, well, okay, 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:30.400 I think there's there's there's a couple of things with 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.920 that that we should talk about. Yeah, because there's a 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:36.239 lot of different explanations they're floating around for why it's happening, 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:37.560 and I think some of them are good, but I 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.280 think a lot of them are missing part of the story. 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.120 And I think it's important because Okay, so, like like 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:47.320 my grandma like called me yesterday, like like called our 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:51.840 family to like talk about the supply chain problem because 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:56.160 someone had like she'd been like fed a conspiracy theory 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.400 that like the shortages were because American dock workers like 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.799 didn't want to open containers from China. Uh yeah. It's 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.799 like yeah, like I mean this is not that's not right, 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.680 but it's not like if that had happened, it would 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:11.480 be like, well, okay, that does scan like yeah, and 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.520 I think yeah, and like I think this is this 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.880 is a moment where yeah, you know, okay, think think 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:17.960 things are not working how they're supposed to you. And 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.120 there's a lot of sort of competing stories about it, 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.440 one which because which are bad, and I think most 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:27.200 of the conventional accounts and Wherebert was talking about this, uh, 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.600 you know, even the really good ones. They start with 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.600 sort of the eighties Wall Street takeover corporate America and 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.440 the transformation of sort of all corporate management into an 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.600 attempt to like raise short term stock prices. And you know, 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.880 part of this is lead in production and this is true, 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.840 and this is sort of true, but dismisses about half 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.760 of the story. And and the part of the story 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:52.160 that it misses that's really important, I think is the 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:56.200 sort of it's it's the broader like frame in which 0:03:56.200 --> 0:04:00.240 all of this is happening in is essentially the worry 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.320 of how the working class essentially loses the class war 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.600 in the six season seventies. And weirdly, it's also a 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:14.680 story about for cos boomerang. Yeah, yeah, long, throw in, 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.080 throw in, the music clip that we've all decided is 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:19.960 going to be the one we put in whenever someone 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:23.080 talks about FOKS boomerang, which is probably just going to 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:30.760 be another time machine noise, So real quick employees. Credit 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.440 to Cody Um okay, continue brief refresher on what that is. 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.040 So basically, the Free Coast boomerang is that Okay, if 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.960 if you if if if a government does something like 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.640 repressive like technology, passive technique or passive technology like in 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.080 a colony, like in a war somewhere, eventually it will 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:47.800 come back and be used against like the citizens of 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:52.600 that country. And yeah, a great example would be fingerprinting 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:58.200 was invented for the British like policing um insurgents in Malaysia, 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.680 and is now has them back to every you know, 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.159 colonizing nation now use his finger printing, which is also 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.880 deeply flawed as a technology. But anyway, yeah, yeah, and 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:08.480 you know, and I think most people tend to think 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:12.160 about this is our armed personnel carriers. But we will 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.960 eventually get to this. The boomerang technology here is actually 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:20.200 shipping containers hell yeah, which have done like irreparable damage 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:24.320 to the mankind. Alright, alright, I'm ready for this. I 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.600 don't know much about this. Hit me, all right, I 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.040 bear with you with this, because we're we're we're we're 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.720 gonna talk about two threads. They're going to seem like 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:33.840 they have nothing to do with supply chains, and then 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:35.720 they're all going to tie together. It turns out is 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.799 literally all supply chains. So in the sixties and seventies, 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:44.239 you have, you know, in very very broad general strokes, 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.040 you have two kinds of class war. The first kind 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.080 is what I'm sort of very broadly calling the war 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.960 and the factories, and this is this is an enormous 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.520 series that sort of strikes outright uprisings as stretch from 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.760 sort of Detroit to tur into Tokyo. And you know, 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.720 the most famous of these is the student sort of 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:05.480 worker uprising in May sixty eight in France and they 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.120 you know, they're they're they're close enough taking the country 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.840 that like French President Charles de gaul like flees in 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.799 a helicopter to in secret, and like flees to Germany 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.720 in secret, and you know, and that that that that's 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.080 like a big event, but it's sort of it sort 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:24.480 of fades. What doesn't fade is May sixty eight in Italy. 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.799 And you know that it doesn't fade there because Italy, 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:30.680 Italy has been in the middle of a strike wave 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:36.320 since two sixty four. It's the whole sixties that basically 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:40.040 just strik waves there and you know, they have their 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:44.920 own sixty and unlike in France where Peters out in Italy, 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.720 you get the just incredibly named hot Hot Autumn of 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:57.760 sixty nine, which is a hot autumn. Yeah, it's it's great. 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:01.080 And so basically what happens is you get hundreds of 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.239 thousands of workers go on strike, they start seizing control 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.880 their factories. Um, most of most of this is playing 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:09.880 out in in the Fiat factories. Yeah, it's giant car 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:14.080 factories in Italy's industrial triangle. And you know, I mean 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.120 they're there for like, they're there for a long time. 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:20.800 They're into like seventy and eventually they lose. But you know, 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.960 Italy is just sort of rocked by conflict and sort 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:28.040 of class war stuff, and all of this re culminates 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.600 in yet another enormous uprising in nineteen seventies seven, this 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:35.160 one driven like in large part by people who we're 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.520 basically just like, funk this, I'm not working in the 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.000 factory anymore. It's awful, which which I think is something 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.640 that like, you know, if you're looking at the mono 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.720 political landscape, you have a bunch of people who are 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:47.680 going like, funk this, I'm not going to go like 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:52.720 die in these factories anymore. And those people all have 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:58.080 in a lot of cases safer employing situations than many 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.480 people today. Yeah. Yeah, it's like it's starting to get 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.840 worse then, which is why people are are frustrated but 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:08.520 likes yeah, yeah, you know. And and this's sort of 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.720 interesting because there there's a kind of like Vicky Uster 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.760 while I've had on here. It calls it, it calls 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:16.600 it like the Monkeys Paul thing, where it's like people 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.840 in the seventies and Italy wanted like autonomy and like 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:22.360 freedom from work, and so what what capitalism gave them 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.000 was like, oh, we'll give you autonomy. We'll just make 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.800 you all contract workers. And now like yeah, you don't 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.280 you don't have to like wake up every morning and 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:29.920 like go to a job in the factory and leave 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.079 a five or whatever. But now you just you know, 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:33.800 you're you're a contract worker, so you just have no 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:38.400 stability whatsoever, and that that's your autonomy. But you know this, 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.839 this is this is really bad for the Italian ruling class. 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.280 Like they almost lose control of Italy three times in 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.760 ten years, and after a seventy seven they're just like 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:50.840 fuck this and they, i mean, they started to start 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.679 doing mass arrest. They imprison like tens of thousands of people, 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.840 the torture a bunch of people, and you know, but 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.800 it becomes clear that like pure repression is like not 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.080 going to be enough to like just destroy the section 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.960 of the working class movements that you know, God help 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.719 you thinks that you should like run production for themselves, 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:15.480 and so they start looking elsewhere for answers, and the 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.000 place they find these answers, weirdly enough, is in the 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.480 second set of wars that are going on in this period, 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:26.240 which are the sort of national liberation wars. And you know, 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:28.560 these are the national liberation wars. Are these these are 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:32.320 full scale, like these aren't sort of class warm metaphors. 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:34.720 These are you know, this is this is giddy be Saw, 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:39.000 this is Algeria. And you know, importantly, for for our purposes, 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:43.319 the US fights two of them, which is Korean Vietnam. 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:48.240 Now Korean Vietnam are strategically really bad places for the 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:52.680 US to fight wars, like they're on the other side 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.960 of the world, which you know, it makes it more 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:58.880 difficult to do war crimes because you know, if you're 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.400 fire bombing of village, right, you have to be able 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.160 to move fire bombs, jet fighters and like oil and 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.040 rations to the other side of the world. And this 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.440 is hard about a lot easier when they can commit 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.880 war crimes and like I don't know, Dulouth Yeah yeah, 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.640 well like even even like you know, you got to 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:18.280 commit a war crime in Mexico, It's like, okay, you 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:19.959 just sign a bunch of people over the border. It 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.559 would be so easy to commit war crimes in Mexico. Yeah, 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.959 and and really really up our war crime quoti. Well, 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.000 I we I would say, we do do a lot 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.680 of war crimes in Mexico. It's just that like they're 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.559 done based on by proxies. That's true. But I mean 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:36.920 we've killed like we've killed like a million people there 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.680 in the last like twenty years. And the war on drugs, 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:43.320 but yeah, you knows, so the US, you know, the 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.160 U s okay. So it has this logistics problem. In 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.280 logistics problem is that it can't do war crimes enough, 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:49.680 and so it comes up with a couple of solutions 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:53.679 to them. One of them is essentially they rebuild the 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.480 whole Japanese economy in order to just use Japan's industrial 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.920 base to fight the war in Korea. And then after 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.640 the war in Korea, and they rebuild the South Korean 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.680 economy in order to you know, fight the war in Vietnam. 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:08.920 And this works, but it doesn't solve the problem that 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.000 you know, Okay, even even even if you're you know, 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:14.240 you're you have an industrial based in Japan, right, you 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.360 still need to be able to efficiently move things by 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:21.439 sea to Korea, and you know, you still need to 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.360 still supplies you need to move from the US. And 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:30.640 so the solution for this is containery shipping and continerary shipping. 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:35.360 This is the pivot point upon which the entire history 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:39.160 of the twentieth century and everything that's happening in the 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.599 twenty one century hinges on like this, this is the 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.560 pivot and you know, like I'm not even this isn't 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:48.120 even really an exaggeration, because it turns out that like 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.040 the ability to have uniform boxes that you can stack 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:52.800 on top of each other like legos and put on 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:58.360 a ship is like like it's like comparable to the 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:02.960 nuclear bomb in terms of how important it is, which 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:04.720 is really really used to the only way to get 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.880 things from A to B was a big wooden ship 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.920 filled with dubloons like pile bags and stuff. Yeah, yeah, 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.280 I don't know how did we like global commerce work 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.200 before shipping containers, what did we what did we literally 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.040 like you just like sometimes sometimes you would just like 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.080 physically people would just pick up the items and put 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.120 them on the ship, or they would like sometimes they 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.560 put them in boxes or like you would like strap 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.240 them to like the top of the ship. And so 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:35.360 with the trains a lot they were just like strap 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:40.520 like machinery like onto a train car. And this was 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.760 like not this is like really inefficient, it's really so yeah, 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.000 And so the US in order to like do war 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.040 crimes in Korea, and then you know, it's just like, oh, hey, 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.880 what if we just make metal boxes and then they 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.040 get they progressively get better and better at it because 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:57.640 you know, they have to go do more war crimes 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.040 in in Vietnam, and but by the time you're getting 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.439 to the end, yeah, yeah, you know, look lots of 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:05.400 war crimes that do you need? You need good logistics 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.319 networks to do all of these war crimes. I mean 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.559 it makes sense that that's where we got shipping containers. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.800 But I didn't realize. I had just assumed it would 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.640 have come out of the shipping industry as opposed to 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.520 like we got to get more missiles over to these places. Yeah, 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.960 well this is the interesting thing. We'll get to this 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.920 in a bit. But basically, like a lot of the 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.720 logistics revolution stuff either comes out of the military or 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:33.520 is developed by X fascists and and and a lot 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.000 of the reason for this is Okay, I mean this 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.200 is you know, this is the seventies. They're still are 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.040 in d happening like the still actual research and developments, 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:44.360 but the military is doing just an enormous amount of 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:50.080 the researcher development for all of global capitalism. And you know, 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:54.240 and and the other thing that what's happening here and 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.400 you know this this is the sort of cozy boomerang 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.400 thing is that you know, so the container are shipping 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.040 logistic stuf that had been used to just like obliterate 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:05.760 the global South suddenly starts spreading into capital like you know, 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.199 just into like broader shipping because people look at this 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:09.840 and they're like, oh, this is efficient. And then the 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.080 contracting companies the US is using this turns into the 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.440 solution to both sort of the war and the factories 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.839 are talking about in in in Europe and the US 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.880 and in like Japan itself, and then also to the 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.960 solution of the national liberation movements and sort of like 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:27.160 communism in East Asia because you know, Okay, so you 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.800 have this question, right the US, like we kind of 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.240 fight to a draw in Korea, like we kill a 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:38.200 norm's number of people, but the North Korea, yeah, and 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.880 like yeah, but we don't really win, right, like we 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.960 we we can't actually defeat the Chinese army or yeah, 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.400 and and you know, and we lose Vietnam. And so 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.040 the question is, okay, so like how how are we 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.800 going to stop communism? And the answer, it turns out, 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.160 is to just integrate integrate the communist countries into the 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.760 capitalist supply chain. And I mean there's a lot of 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.200 examples of this, like Market Thatcher for example. It is 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:05.080 like very good buddies with Nikolai chesscu Ah, that's nice. 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:09.240 They could be friends despite their the fact that they 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.400 well I guess they weren't really that different as people, No, 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:16.680 not really, Like basically the difference is that ky lost 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:21.600 and thus got like murdered on state television on a 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:27.840 state funeral treatment. That's my official stance. They should have 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.520 for stuff we will talk about in a bit. But yes, 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.800 but you know, the the archetypal example of this is 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:38.000 actually China, and you know there's a lot of various 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.560 sort of skilled diplomatic work by Kissinger and also the 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:45.320 US like throughout the seventies just like they're just like 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.440 sending entire factories to China, like like the like they'll 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.400 they'll they'll take an entire factory, break it down, put 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.320 it in boxes, and then just like ship at the China. Great, 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.120 it's the time and yes, so yeah, they're they're they're 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.720 just like sending to knowlogy of China. And the end 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:06.040 result of this is that you know, China goes from 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:10.240 like fighting American troops with like like doing bannit charges 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:15.800 like through yeah, yeah, against the Yeah. I was just 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:19.640 like yeah to to you know, being an American ally 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:23.040 in like invading Vietnam as a way to like stick 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.320 it to the Soviets basically. And so you know, so 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.080 the US esensely just integrates China to the global supply chain, 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.360 and they eventually do the same thing to Vietnam, which 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.120 again is another country that they couldn't defeat militarily. But 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:35.720 what they you know what they actually beat them with, 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.600 it's the shipping container. And before the shipping container this 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.760 would have been impossible, right, like basically it was too 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.320 inefficient and too expensive, like the cost of shipping was 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:47.600 too high to have all of this production, you know, 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.320 like some half your parts made in China, some of 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.680 them made India's on them made in like Japan's, one 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:54.000 of the made in Korean, and then shipped them all 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.480 around the world, which is how the modern system works. 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.840 But with with container I shipping, suddenly shipping is really cheap, 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.160 and it becomes much cheaper to pay shipping costs it 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.560 is to pay labor costs. And this is the solution 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.320 to to the sort of war and the factories. You know, 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.800 if workers start making too much noise about pay or 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.440 like again a god forbids start talking about like taking 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.800 control of factories and running the democratically like some kind 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.120 of anarchist monsters, corporation can just move the factories overseas, 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.000 and this becomes an incredibly effective way to just destroy 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.600 the labor movement because anytime, you know, organized labor starts 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:28.959 making demands, you can be like, well, okay, sorry, we're 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:30.840 just gonna pack up and we're gonna you know, we're 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:32.560 gonna go to China. We're gonna go to somewhere else. 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.800 And this coincides with, you know, the thing, the thing 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:40.120 that gets talked about a lot in the conventional accounts, 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.520 which is the Wall Street sort of corporate takeover, well, 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.120 the Wall Street takeover of corporate America, which is something 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.560 I think that sounds really weird to us now, but 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.720 you know, the whole the whole story here is really 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.440 interesting and extremely long, and if if you want to 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.760 like have a very detailed accounts of how this all 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:05.760 played out, the book Liquidated by Karen Hoe is just incredible, 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:11.160 like ethnography and history of Wall Street. She like she's 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:13.520 a Karen has an anthropologist, and she like went and 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:15.639 worked on Wall Street and like did ethnography there for 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.560 a bit and it's very interesting stuff, but it's kind 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:23.400 of outside of our scope. So the very very very 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.920 short version is that the Wall Street bankers basically figure 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:31.080 out a way to just like buy out corporations, to 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.199 raise a bunch of money and just entirely buy out corporations. 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.440 And then once they have the corporation, right, what what 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:39.560 what what the you know, this is corporate rating. So 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:41.800 they're there, they they loot all the assets, they sell 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:43.200 it off and they try to sell off their stock 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:45.560 at a higher price. The parcels of this is sort 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:47.840 of complicated, but the net result of this is that 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.639 Wall Street completely takes over the corporate world in the 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.880 way they hadn't before. Like the Wall streets, the Wall 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.280 Street like finance people are now you know, there're the 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:59.720 there are the people making off the decisions, and you know, 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.399 and and they're their only goal is to raise the 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:04.600 stock price, like that's that's the only thing they care about. 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:06.200 That they don't they don't even care about making money. 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:08.280 Right if if you lose money and your stock price 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:12.600 still rises, like you don't care. And those guys start 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:14.600 looking at a lot of the things that had existed 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:18.640 in corporations before that things like pensions, uh, particularly things 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:21.200 like researcher development. They look at it and go, Okay, 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:23.040 why are we spending money on R and D Like 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:24.840 this This doesn't this doesn't raise our stock price, This 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:27.000 doesn't have any immediate shorter and value. So they cut 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:30.280 it right, They start cutting pensions. They starts just destroying 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:35.159 the unions, and you know, and and because because this 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:39.760 is happening at the same time as corporations really like 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:43.040 get the ability to outsource for the first time. You know, 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:46.920 they lean into it and they start essentially we're just 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.480 just slashing the aout of people who work for the company, right, 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:51.640 and so you know and so and instead of having 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.160 direct employees, they start working with contractors, and they start 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:57.879 moving to the contractors overseas, and you know, and and 0:19:57.920 --> 0:19:59.359 this is this is where we get to sort of 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:06.200 this whole outsourcing wave because you know, something I don't 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:11.560 think I talked about enough withoutsourcing is why actually are 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:14.840 the labor costs lower in the countries that these people 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:19.119 are are moving their factories to. H And part of 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:21.360 it is, you know, people talk about development like they're 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:25.000 moving to undeveloped countries, and you know, part of part 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:27.320 of part of development is just you know, how much 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:31.040 technological capacity their manufacturing system has, right, and that you know. 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:34.000 But but the other part of it is that if 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:37.439 you move your production to say Columbia, right or like 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:39.520 you know, you're investing in sort of like cocoa bean 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:42.440 farming in Columbia and people try to do you need organizing, 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:46.240 you can hire des squads to murder them. Yeah and yeah, yeah, 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:47.840 It's like you can basically just sort of like you 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:49.960 can you can outsource the violence, and you can you 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:52.840 can you know, the corporate term for it is reducing 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:54.719 labor costs, but really what you're doing is just like 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:57.960 murdering people with des squads and terrorizing them, and you 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:02.359 know that that does lower labor costs, right, But you know, 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:04.439 and I think there's there's another example of this, Like 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:08.240 this is a lot of what like the killing at 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:11.399 Tienamen was really about. It was you know, not so 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:13.800 much in Tianna score itself. If falked about this elsewhere, 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:16.960 but like the workers that they kill outside of the square, 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:21.400 like a lot of the reason they're doing very little 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:26.240 about Tinaman Square other than like protesters China government bad. 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:30.400 The guy stands up the tank and then yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:33.720 I've talked about this elsewhere more than like the very 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:35.320 short version is, so there's a bunch of students in 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:38.400 the square, right, and the students in the square itself 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:42.440 like basically they kind of went democracy and mostly they 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:46.800 want like market reforms to go faster. But then outside 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.280 of the square, you know, Fijings, like whole working class 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:54.280 shows up and there's these enormous demonstrations. They basically start 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:57.240 like like barricading, like blocks and blocks and blocks and 0:21:57.240 --> 0:21:58.719 like this radius outside of the street and you get 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:01.600 the sort of like mini commune thing ing. And those 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:04.760 guys are like, you know, like they're they're they're advocating 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:08.200 for democracy and the factory like they're you know, they're 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:13.440 they're talking about things like like I mean, they're they're 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:16.560 like that, you know, they they they they they have 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:19.120 their like marks out and they're talking about how like 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:21.720 they're they're they're calculating their rate of surplus value that's 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:25.160 being extracted from them by the capitalists. And those are 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:27.600 the people, like almost everyone who dies at chantament Is 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:29.119 is from those guys, Like those are the people that 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:32.639 they just get massacred. And you know, and and the 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:35.840 reason that happens is that the CCP is looking at 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:37.960 this and it's like, okay, this, this is this is 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:40.040 like this this is sort of this is the return 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:41.920 of organized labor, and we need to destroy it before 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:45.119 it like gets anywhere. And so they do, and organized 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:51.000 labor and China just implode. I mean, it was already 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:53.080 pretty weak because you have a lot of stake control unions, 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:55.919 but I mean now it's just nothing, and you know, 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:57.240 and and and there I mean there there have been 0:22:57.240 --> 0:22:59.600 attempts to labor organizing in China sort of recently, and 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:01.679 like yeah, the to be just rest everyone, right, and 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:03.560 so you know this this this is how this is, 0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:06.199 this is the price of cheap labor, right, it's just 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:10.360 incredible state repression. But this is also you know, and 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:12.879 this is this is a sort of like macro scale 0:23:12.920 --> 0:23:16.000 thing of why the supply chains suck because everyone talks 0:23:16.000 --> 0:23:17.720 about like the efficiency of the supply chaine, but the 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:20.959 supply chains aren't efficient. They make no sense, right if 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:23.680 if if if what you're trying to do is move 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:27.200 something quickly from points A to point B. They make 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:30.600 no sense because you know, the supply chaines are spread 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:33.440 all over the world, like in individual parts of being 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:36.680 made in six countries, right, you have like people will 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:40.840 like for tax dodge purposes, like they'll have one part 0:23:40.880 --> 0:23:42.840 of a component's built in one country, and then they'll 0:23:42.840 --> 0:23:44.359 move it from another country and to have another part 0:23:44.359 --> 0:23:45.560 of it, and then they'll ship all of it to 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:47.840 Mexico and they'll ship it across the border and they'll 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:49.760 have the whole thing be assembled in the USC they 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:51.399 can say it was made in the US. Like there's 0:23:51.240 --> 0:23:53.960 there's all of these things that are just just nonsense 0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:55.640 right there. They're not they're not efficient at all. It's 0:23:55.720 --> 0:23:58.520 it's completely ridiculous. It's it's this just you know, it's 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:02.200 just completely absurd web. And and the reason why it 0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:05.720 is designed like this is as as a giant sort 0:24:05.720 --> 0:24:08.200 of kind of asurgency thing. Like the reason the reason 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:14.679 supply chains are are just bad is because there, you know, 0:24:14.760 --> 0:24:16.960 they they they're not designed to move things that they're 0:24:17.000 --> 0:24:19.920 designed as an instrument to just like solve the problem 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:23.320 of of of of class power right there there there. 0:24:24.040 --> 0:24:26.960 They're designed destroy unions. They're designed to make sure that 0:24:27.000 --> 0:24:29.800 nobody ever sort of like gets any ideas about widges, 0:24:29.920 --> 0:24:32.760 to make sure nobody gets any ideas about like taking anything. 0:24:34.320 --> 0:24:38.320 And so you know, but this this this can work 0:24:38.440 --> 0:24:41.320 for a while. The problem is again, like they're not efficient. 0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:44.840 It's it's just it just it is not efficient to 0:24:45.040 --> 0:24:49.879 like move have everything made in like six countries and 0:24:49.880 --> 0:24:51.520 then you have to semble them somewhere else. Yeah, and 0:24:51.600 --> 0:24:54.520 so you know, it's efficient in the sense that it 0:24:54.560 --> 0:24:58.920 efficiently maximizes the value of stock prices for like stock 0:24:58.960 --> 0:25:01.160 by backs and stuff. And generally what is meant by 0:25:01.200 --> 0:25:04.800 like efficiency in that sense is like what makes the 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:08.119 seventy people who actually own this company the most money. 0:25:08.200 --> 0:25:10.919 That's the efficient thing, but it's it's horribly inefficient in 0:25:10.960 --> 0:25:13.760 every practical sense of the word. And that this is 0:25:13.840 --> 0:25:16.280 kind of an interesting change because I mean, you know this, 0:25:16.280 --> 0:25:18.399 this isn't to say that like the supply chains that 0:25:18.440 --> 0:25:21.119 worked before this were like better, because they also sucked 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:23.840 in a lot of their own ways. But all of 0:25:23.880 --> 0:25:26.520 the like efficiency stuff that we're about to talk about 0:25:26.880 --> 0:25:30.000 just just in time production, etcetera, etcetera, Like you know 0:25:30.040 --> 0:25:35.160 what isn't produced just in time? Sorry, but it isn't 0:25:35.160 --> 0:25:38.520 add right time. Yeah, they're they're they're they're not produced 0:25:38.560 --> 0:25:40.639 just in time anymore because the supply chains falling apart. 0:25:41.320 --> 0:25:44.440 That's that's what that is. Our promise about our sponsors 0:25:44.600 --> 0:25:47.880 is that, uh, they're they're not at all in time. 0:25:47.920 --> 0:25:50.240 Who knows when they'll get your products to you. There's 0:25:50.280 --> 0:26:04.240 no way to tell, it's impossible to know. We're back, Yeah, 0:26:04.280 --> 0:26:07.639 we're back to talk about how, you know, having having 0:26:07.680 --> 0:26:11.520 developed an entire network of extremely inefficient supply chains that 0:26:11.600 --> 0:26:14.800 just absolutely suck and don't make any sense. Uh, people 0:26:14.840 --> 0:26:18.320 tried to make them efficient. And this this is where 0:26:18.359 --> 0:26:24.639 we go back to Japan because Japan, you know, I 0:26:24.640 --> 0:26:26.960 guess this is this is this is the other Forks boomerang, 0:26:27.440 --> 0:26:29.240 which is that you know, okay, so we we we 0:26:29.320 --> 0:26:33.240 industrialized Japan in order to like fighter colonial wars, right, 0:26:33.720 --> 0:26:36.399 But then you know this turns into this huge like 0:26:36.440 --> 0:26:40.520 Pikachu face moment when Japan suddenly starts like industrializing more 0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:43.840 efficiently than the US does. It's very funny. And then 0:26:44.480 --> 0:26:47.160 and writes a bunch of books that are the premise 0:26:47.200 --> 0:26:51.840 of all of them. Is Japan scary? Yeah, it's very funny. Yeah, 0:26:52.040 --> 0:26:54.160 you know, like this is interesting. Is this is an 0:26:54.160 --> 0:26:56.080 interesting thing here, which is that like all of the 0:26:56.119 --> 0:27:01.120 panic around China, there was exactly the same panic like 0:27:01.320 --> 0:27:03.720 around Japan in the in like the seventies, and it's 0:27:03.720 --> 0:27:06.399 exactly say like right down to like a bunch of 0:27:06.400 --> 0:27:09.200 socialists going like, hey, look this this is a model 0:27:09.240 --> 0:27:11.560 for anti capitalism. Like people people said that about the 0:27:11.640 --> 0:27:14.159 Japanese model, and it's like it's it's all, it's all 0:27:14.200 --> 0:27:17.000 the same thing. It's just it's just happening again. But 0:27:17.080 --> 0:27:19.639 you know, what what what what what Japan did and 0:27:19.640 --> 0:27:21.840 specifically what Toyota does is create this thing called the 0:27:21.840 --> 0:27:25.520 Toyota production system, which eventually becomes known as just in 0:27:25.600 --> 0:27:30.200 time production. And this if you've read anything about sort 0:27:30.240 --> 0:27:33.680 of the modern supply chain problems, you've almost certainly heard 0:27:33.680 --> 0:27:36.520 of just in time production or or lean production. And 0:27:36.760 --> 0:27:39.280 just in time and lean production are technically difference, but 0:27:40.160 --> 0:27:44.359 the differences don't matter for us. So yeah, and and 0:27:45.000 --> 0:27:47.960 this this stuff is derived from what Toyota was sort 0:27:47.960 --> 0:27:53.040 of doing in the post war era. And basically the 0:27:53.080 --> 0:27:57.440 goal of it is, You're you're never supposed to have 0:27:57.520 --> 0:28:01.160 any inventory that's just sitting there, so that the whole 0:28:01.160 --> 0:28:03.399 distant supposed to be constantly the whole system is supposed 0:28:03.400 --> 0:28:05.679 to be constantly in motion. So you have parts come in, 0:28:05.800 --> 0:28:08.400 they get put into their immediately get put into production line, 0:28:08.440 --> 0:28:10.720 and the finished products immediately shipped out to the stores. 0:28:11.560 --> 0:28:13.719 And you know, the theory is that the stores are 0:28:13.720 --> 0:28:16.400 only going to carry exactly enough products to meet demands. 0:28:16.440 --> 0:28:19.440 And it's supposed to be quote unquote flexible, which means 0:28:19.480 --> 0:28:22.000 that it can react to shifts and consumer taste and 0:28:22.040 --> 0:28:25.040 demand by like increasing or decreasing production, and it can't 0:28:25.040 --> 0:28:27.399 do this. This is what we've been seeing for the 0:28:27.480 --> 0:28:30.160 entirety of COVID, which is that you know that this 0:28:30.040 --> 0:28:32.199 is this is why every time there's a run of 0:28:32.240 --> 0:28:34.520 toilet paper, everyone runs out of toilet paper, because it 0:28:34.520 --> 0:28:37.600 turns out that these systems can't even a ten percent 0:28:37.720 --> 0:28:40.560 increase just completely obliterates this entire system and it just 0:28:40.600 --> 0:28:43.480 collapses and can't produce enough toilet paper. Yeah, and again 0:28:43.600 --> 0:28:46.800 just because it's expensive to store things, it's pricing. This 0:28:46.840 --> 0:28:48.840 is a big part of like why actually the John 0:28:48.880 --> 0:28:52.560 Dear strike, which has the potential to disrupt the status 0:28:52.600 --> 0:28:57.160 quote movement more than any strike in recent history, um 0:28:57.400 --> 0:29:01.360 is so potent because John Deere actors are kind of 0:29:01.360 --> 0:29:04.160 a necessary part of the agriculture industry, not just their 0:29:04.160 --> 0:29:06.480 ability to sell new tractors, but their ability to repair 0:29:06.720 --> 0:29:10.280 the extant tractors. Like if harvest season comes around and 0:29:10.320 --> 0:29:12.760 there's not spare parts to repair tractors that break, like 0:29:12.840 --> 0:29:16.520 food doesn't get harvested, it's a significant issue John Deere. 0:29:16.920 --> 0:29:19.080 We'll talk more about this in another date. But like, 0:29:19.160 --> 0:29:21.520 not only did the most that they could do to 0:29:21.640 --> 0:29:24.920 squeeze their employees to suck out pensions, to cut you know, 0:29:25.240 --> 0:29:29.680 the expenditures on wages, but they they set up their 0:29:29.800 --> 0:29:32.400 factories in such a way that there was no extra space, 0:29:32.440 --> 0:29:34.720 so they could not scale up any of these factories 0:29:34.720 --> 0:29:37.600 to increase demand when they needed to. So that now 0:29:37.640 --> 0:29:39.800 that John Deere's going on strike, if they lose a 0:29:39.840 --> 0:29:43.360 month of productivity, they can't ever catch up. It's impossible 0:29:43.360 --> 0:29:46.600 because they can't actually expand the productive capacity of their factories. 0:29:46.960 --> 0:29:50.040 And because the strike is hitting, they didn't have any 0:29:50.080 --> 0:29:53.040 extra spare parts lying around, so if ship gets broken, 0:29:53.440 --> 0:29:57.520 they can't manufacture the parts necessary to keep tractors functioning 0:29:57.640 --> 0:29:59.760 in a lot of American farms because they didn't store 0:29:59.760 --> 0:30:02.000 any thing, because that was not the most efficient thing 0:30:02.080 --> 0:30:04.240 for the economic bottom line of the CEO who gets 0:30:04.240 --> 0:30:07.120 a hundred and sixty million dollars a year. And anyway, 0:30:07.200 --> 0:30:09.000 this is this is the funny part about this whole thing, 0:30:09.040 --> 0:30:10.640 which is that you know, okay, so this whole supply 0:30:10.720 --> 0:30:15.040 chain system was based around just like destroying destroying the 0:30:15.160 --> 0:30:19.200 organized working class, right, But it's like they were so 0:30:19.320 --> 0:30:22.280 successful at it that they've like turned around and fucked 0:30:22.280 --> 0:30:25.040 themselves with it because like you know this, this is 0:30:25.080 --> 0:30:27.440 this is the thing about about the John Deer strike, Right, 0:30:27.560 --> 0:30:30.440 It used to be you know, back back back if 0:30:30.440 --> 0:30:33.200 you look at like like how how the unions were 0:30:33.200 --> 0:30:35.560 broken in the eighties, or like if you look at 0:30:35.560 --> 0:30:38.920 like the giant like auto strikes you'd have in the seventies, right, 0:30:39.840 --> 0:30:41.680 And companies still do this to this day, but like 0:30:42.280 --> 0:30:44.640 there worst at it. The thing they would do is 0:30:44.840 --> 0:30:47.280 so okay. So you you you know, if you're a company, 0:30:47.360 --> 0:30:49.560 you know roughly when a strike is gonna happen, right. 0:30:49.600 --> 0:30:51.320 And the reason you know when a strike is gonna 0:30:51.320 --> 0:30:55.000 happen is because in the US, like the way labor 0:30:55.040 --> 0:30:57.520 law works is that like you can you can basically 0:30:57.560 --> 0:31:00.479 only strike like when a contract is up. I mean 0:31:00.480 --> 0:31:04.080 you can do wildcats, but it's illegal. But you know, okay, 0:31:04.080 --> 0:31:06.880 so they knew that the audio unions, for example, we're 0:31:06.880 --> 0:31:08.560 about to go we're going to go on strike when 0:31:08.720 --> 0:31:11.920 when the contract like was was coming up, and you know, 0:31:12.000 --> 0:31:13.840 they'd have spies, and you can get a sense of like, 0:31:14.640 --> 0:31:16.840 you know, okay, so are are how likely are they 0:31:16.880 --> 0:31:21.600 to do the strike? And you know so so that 0:31:21.600 --> 0:31:24.000 that that lets you do things like build up an 0:31:24.120 --> 0:31:26.960 enormous sort of inventorio spare parts. It lets you build 0:31:27.000 --> 0:31:28.920 up an inventory of supplies, and it lets you build 0:31:29.000 --> 0:31:31.560 up you know it basically, it lets you build up 0:31:31.600 --> 0:31:34.720 the capacity you need to outlast a strike. But the 0:31:34.760 --> 0:31:37.040 problem with just in times, they can't do that anymore 0:31:37.400 --> 0:31:40.200 because yeah, they they've they've you know, they've they've completely 0:31:40.200 --> 0:31:44.240 fucked themselves by by then the John Deer situation, because 0:31:44.280 --> 0:31:46.560 they hadn't strike, the workers hadn't had gone on strike 0:31:46.600 --> 0:31:49.600 since eighties six. They've been putting funds into their strike 0:31:50.160 --> 0:31:53.040 survival fund for years, but the company had nothing like 0:31:53.160 --> 0:31:56.520 has um. It's rather and this is you know, this, 0:31:56.520 --> 0:32:01.160 this is the other part of of of why everything 0:32:01.280 --> 0:32:03.760 like good that's happening right now is happening is that 0:32:05.160 --> 0:32:09.800 they they they you know, they everything has circled back 0:32:09.840 --> 0:32:12.880 around and suddenly all of these companies are, you know, 0:32:13.000 --> 0:32:15.400 we are incredibly vulnerable to strikes again because yeah, as 0:32:15.400 --> 0:32:18.640 you're talking about the just in time production thing, it 0:32:18.720 --> 0:32:22.560 only works if if everything actually comes in on time, 0:32:23.360 --> 0:32:25.800 right Like if if if any if any individual part 0:32:25.920 --> 0:32:27.720 is late, the whole system starts to fall apart and 0:32:27.720 --> 0:32:30.280 then and then you can't repair it. And you know, 0:32:30.320 --> 0:32:32.760 and there's there's a lot of ways that that this 0:32:32.760 --> 0:32:36.480 this this can be very bad. Um, you know, We've 0:32:36.520 --> 0:32:38.080 talked about the John do you. We talked about the 0:32:38.120 --> 0:32:41.920 labor stuff. The other big thing that's happening is COVID, 0:32:42.640 --> 0:32:45.280 which has happened and continues to happen and has killed 0:32:45.320 --> 0:32:47.880 off just enormous parts of the working class. I mean, 0:32:48.120 --> 0:32:52.360 it's like four million dead worldwide or something. And again 0:32:52.400 --> 0:32:54.960 that that's also probably an undercount because that's just direct, guest, 0:32:55.080 --> 0:32:57.520 that's not like, yeah, it's probably like twice that it's 0:32:57.560 --> 0:33:00.120 I mean, we're looking at a minimum of se us 0:33:00.120 --> 0:33:04.040 into the US, and again that's probably a million undercounted 0:33:04.120 --> 0:33:06.719 at least. It's it's a horror show, right, And and 0:33:06.760 --> 0:33:10.720 the people they killed with that, you know, like especially 0:33:10.800 --> 0:33:13.120 in the initial phases, like it was just it was 0:33:13.160 --> 0:33:15.680 just that they took a chain chainsaw to the working class. 0:33:16.840 --> 0:33:19.000 And those are a bunch of people who you know 0:33:19.160 --> 0:33:21.760 that they're they're not replaceable, they're they're very highly skilled, 0:33:21.760 --> 0:33:23.440 and they do a bunch of jobs that absolutely suck. 0:33:24.800 --> 0:33:29.480 And now you know, and one of one of the 0:33:29.520 --> 0:33:31.600 places that this this has caused a bunch of problems 0:33:31.720 --> 0:33:34.680 is in the ports, because the other thing that this 0:33:34.840 --> 0:33:37.560 entire supply game relies on is being able to very 0:33:37.640 --> 0:33:40.960 quickly and cheaply moved parts from you know, China to 0:33:40.960 --> 0:33:44.640 the US, from China to Mexico from like Bangladesh too. 0:33:45.400 --> 0:33:47.160 Like symbolia, you have, you have, you have. You have 0:33:47.200 --> 0:33:50.479 to be able to continuously like keep moving stuff around 0:33:50.640 --> 0:33:54.800 in in you know, you have to continuously keep moving 0:33:54.960 --> 0:33:57.160 ships around and you also have to be able to 0:33:57.200 --> 0:33:58.920 load noneload them. And we you know, we we we 0:33:58.960 --> 0:34:02.440 saw like there there was the that when that ship 0:34:02.480 --> 0:34:06.360 got stuck in the Suez. There is that whole yeah 0:34:06.480 --> 0:34:08.799 that you know that that that was sex asses where 0:34:09.280 --> 0:34:12.360 where when people couldn't get sex asses because the world's 0:34:12.400 --> 0:34:16.480 supply of sex asses for months was on that one ship. Um, 0:34:16.520 --> 0:34:19.000 it was a real crisis for the sex ass community. 0:34:19.400 --> 0:34:21.759 Those are plastic asses that you have sex with if 0:34:21.760 --> 0:34:29.040 you're curious. Yeah, it is. The world appears as an 0:34:29.080 --> 0:34:33.320 immense collection of commodities, some of which are sex asses. Yeah, 0:34:33.520 --> 0:34:35.880 most of which, in terms of the ones that matter 0:34:36.120 --> 0:34:40.759 sex asses. Yes, sex ass industrial complex is really the 0:34:40.840 --> 0:34:44.160 lynchpin of global capital. But please continue. Yeah, well, you know, 0:34:44.360 --> 0:34:47.120 but the sex ass indictial complex falls apart, and you know, 0:34:47.160 --> 0:34:49.160 and it's not just the ship being stuck in the 0:34:49.160 --> 0:34:52.680 suis like made everything way worse, right, But it was 0:34:52.800 --> 0:34:54.800 very funny, Yeah, it was. It was a cually funny, 0:34:54.800 --> 0:34:57.080 but it was extremely funny. The part the thing that's 0:34:57.080 --> 0:35:00.480 like not very funny is that, like, okay, so in 0:35:00.800 --> 0:35:02.520 order to getting this to work right, you have to 0:35:02.560 --> 0:35:05.239 have a bunch of longshoremen. You have to unload all 0:35:05.280 --> 0:35:08.600 of this ship m hm. And you know, one of 0:35:08.640 --> 0:35:10.640 one of the problems that is that is happening in 0:35:10.840 --> 0:35:12.839 the sort of global supply chain right now is that 0:35:13.080 --> 0:35:15.440 the ships can't be unloaded fast enough. And part of 0:35:15.480 --> 0:35:17.759 this is like this job sucks and people just a 0:35:17.760 --> 0:35:18.960 lot of people don't want to do it, and a 0:35:19.000 --> 0:35:22.080 lot of people died and in the and it's causing 0:35:22.160 --> 0:35:26.399 this huge problem, and and there's and then there's there's 0:35:26.400 --> 0:35:29.200 another you know, if you want to take like the 0:35:29.239 --> 0:35:32.440 macro perspective about this, it's that this whole system is 0:35:32.440 --> 0:35:35.000 relying on logistics workers and so it also needs you know, 0:35:35.040 --> 0:35:38.160 you need truck drivers. And we're coming back and you 0:35:38.200 --> 0:35:40.000 know in the US is that there's yeah, you know, 0:35:40.239 --> 0:35:42.400 there's there's a sort of a truck drivers now because again, 0:35:42.440 --> 0:35:46.120 their job sucks and they've been like just absolutely screwing 0:35:46.120 --> 0:35:48.680 these people over for decades and decades and decades now 0:35:48.680 --> 0:35:51.520 and turning into the subcontractors just not paying them, and 0:35:52.600 --> 0:35:55.560 you know, and and this and when you know, when 0:35:55.560 --> 0:35:57.840 the when the ports shut down, like not even shut up, 0:35:57.880 --> 0:36:00.600 like when when the ports are behind unloading stuff, and 0:36:00.640 --> 0:36:03.839 when the trucks like that are supposed to be moving 0:36:03.840 --> 0:36:05.400 this stuff, there aren't off of them, and like the 0:36:05.840 --> 0:36:09.640 cost of that increases, it throws off the whole system. 0:36:09.680 --> 0:36:13.080 And that's that's another big part of like why this 0:36:13.160 --> 0:36:17.080 whole thing is is sort of imploding. And and it's 0:36:17.120 --> 0:36:21.080 interesting because I remember this. There was like a decade 0:36:21.880 --> 0:36:24.920 where like every other article we'll be talking about how 0:36:25.440 --> 0:36:28.680 they were going to like automate like truck driving, and 0:36:28.719 --> 0:36:30.200 it was like the truck drivers are all going to 0:36:30.239 --> 0:36:31.640 go out of business because they're going to automated. It 0:36:31.719 --> 0:36:33.839 just never happened at all. And say the same thing 0:36:33.840 --> 0:36:36.520 with with there. You know, there's I mean, there's been 0:36:36.600 --> 0:36:39.239 some port automization, but like not on the scale that 0:36:40.440 --> 0:36:42.480 you know, actually does anything. And part part of the 0:36:42.520 --> 0:36:44.160 reason for that is, you know, I was talking about 0:36:44.360 --> 0:36:47.680 people not investing in research developments. Yeah, so the biggest 0:36:47.719 --> 0:36:50.960 people who aren't doing that are the shipping companies. And 0:36:51.160 --> 0:36:54.440 that's a good time because the shipping basically like container shipping, 0:36:54.520 --> 0:36:57.520 has been taken over by what's essentially just like a 0:36:57.560 --> 0:37:01.560 monopoly of two companies. And those two companies make just 0:37:01.640 --> 0:37:04.120 an indescribable amount of money. They have like a thousand 0:37:04.200 --> 0:37:08.080 percent profits, and they just pay it all out of dividends. 0:37:08.160 --> 0:37:10.840 And so they're not you know, they're not investing in 0:37:10.880 --> 0:37:14.160 any port infrastructure, they're not investing automation. They're just pocketing 0:37:14.200 --> 0:37:15.799 the money. And that means that you know, we have 0:37:15.840 --> 0:37:17.919 all that and they're they're spending in in the case 0:37:17.920 --> 0:37:19.680 of John Deere, which I keep going back to a 0:37:19.680 --> 0:37:21.880 bunch of money lobbying to make it illegal for farmers 0:37:21.960 --> 0:37:25.759 to repair uh their tractors. Yeah, yeah, they're there, you know, 0:37:25.920 --> 0:37:28.279 they they they figured they figured out that like the 0:37:28.400 --> 0:37:30.520 the easiest way to make money is just get the 0:37:30.560 --> 0:37:33.839 state to shake people down for you. It's like funck 0:37:33.920 --> 0:37:37.439 like investing in making anything that we have better. Let's 0:37:37.480 --> 0:37:40.480 just you know, like let's just turn the state into 0:37:40.520 --> 0:37:44.880 a debt collector. And and it's interesting because so this 0:37:45.040 --> 0:37:47.719 this is the part of the supply chain crisis that 0:37:47.760 --> 0:37:50.800 like Biden has been focusing on. But Biden's plan, Biden's 0:37:50.840 --> 0:37:55.000 plans great. Biden's plan is literally make the longshoremen work harder. 0:37:56.440 --> 0:38:02.600 So his plan is here, there are we better, baby, Yeah, 0:38:02.719 --> 0:38:05.080 we're gonna we're gonna make We're gonna keep the ports 0:38:05.120 --> 0:38:07.560 open twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, 0:38:09.040 --> 0:38:11.200 and like make people work weekends now. And then he 0:38:11.280 --> 0:38:15.560 also got FedEx Walmart and Ups to do twenty four 0:38:15.600 --> 0:38:18.520 hour or seven day a week shipping. So yeah, the 0:38:18.560 --> 0:38:21.960 solution is literally just like feed more workers into a 0:38:22.040 --> 0:38:25.960 grinder and make them work longer, which is which is 0:38:26.000 --> 0:38:29.880 great and and you know will not in any way backfire. No, 0:38:30.040 --> 0:38:32.000 it's fine. I don't even think we should be talking 0:38:32.040 --> 0:38:35.400 about it. No, it's great, it's gonna, it's it's yeah, 0:38:35.440 --> 0:38:37.600 it's you know, but I get like this is the thing, 0:38:37.640 --> 0:38:40.160 Like this won't work and it can't. And the reason 0:38:40.200 --> 0:38:41.680 it won't work is that, like part of the reason 0:38:41.680 --> 0:38:45.520 there's a shortage is that, you know, it's it's not 0:38:45.640 --> 0:38:47.359 it's not just about the like the fact that people 0:38:47.400 --> 0:38:51.200 aren't paying enough. It's about the fact that these jobs 0:38:51.880 --> 0:38:56.640 are just awful. Like you have people, you have people 0:38:56.719 --> 0:39:00.000 working like twelve hour shifts that start at like six am, 0:39:00.080 --> 0:39:01.880 then they have to wake another twelve hours shift in 0:39:01.960 --> 0:39:03.200 hours later, and that these peop having to do with 0:39:03.200 --> 0:39:05.120 this over and over and over again, and it's well, 0:39:05.120 --> 0:39:07.040 and they don't like the way that these shifts are 0:39:07.080 --> 0:39:09.040 usually put on them. Is that, like you'll find out 0:39:09.360 --> 0:39:12.280 when you come in that instead of working six am 0:39:12.400 --> 0:39:15.480 to four pm or whatever, they're actually gonna need you 0:39:15.520 --> 0:39:17.279 to stay until eight and then they're gonna need you 0:39:17.280 --> 0:39:18.840 to come in. By the way, you're gonna need to 0:39:18.880 --> 0:39:21.200 come in like two hours early tomorrow. So you'll realize that, 0:39:21.239 --> 0:39:23.680 like in between your two shifts, you have a total 0:39:23.719 --> 0:39:27.480 of eight hours to get home and sleep. And if 0:39:27.520 --> 0:39:30.960 you say no, uh uh. While the idea is that 0:39:31.000 --> 0:39:32.600 if you say no, like you won't have the job 0:39:32.640 --> 0:39:35.080 it's required now, the reality is that most of these 0:39:35.120 --> 0:39:37.480 companies are also pretty desperate to have these workers. And 0:39:37.520 --> 0:39:40.600 a lot of these manufacturing and packing firms, it takes 0:39:40.600 --> 0:39:42.560 time to train people up and then they quit a 0:39:42.560 --> 0:39:45.319 couple of weeks in because the work is miserable and 0:39:45.360 --> 0:39:49.880 the schedule is fucking miserable. Um, and it's yeah, it's all, 0:39:49.880 --> 0:39:54.239 it's it's it's it's simultaneously like deeply inhuman but also 0:39:54.360 --> 0:39:56.560 is leading to a situation. There's a reason why there's 0:39:56.600 --> 0:39:58.640 so many strikes on right now is that there is 0:39:58.680 --> 0:40:03.200 opportunity because in sort of the chasing of short term profits, 0:40:03.719 --> 0:40:07.920 a lot of these fucking oligarchs have exposed themselves in 0:40:07.960 --> 0:40:11.640 a in a pretty vulnerable position. Yeah, and I think 0:40:12.480 --> 0:40:14.719 you know this, this is coming back to a sort 0:40:14.760 --> 0:40:19.960 of the other way that when when there was a 0:40:20.000 --> 0:40:22.839 crisis in in the seventies, the other way they solve 0:40:22.880 --> 0:40:25.440 this was just authoritarianism, right it was you know, is 0:40:25.520 --> 0:40:27.600 this is the pinos a solution, right like, oh, like 0:40:27.960 --> 0:40:31.240 workers are using control compromids, Okay, well just shoot them, 0:40:31.320 --> 0:40:34.840 right and yeah and yeah, and this is you know, 0:40:34.840 --> 0:40:38.360 they're they're they're finally running into a point where you know, 0:40:38.680 --> 0:40:40.360 this is this is the solution they've been trying to 0:40:40.360 --> 0:40:43.239 do now with with with this crisis, is you know, 0:40:43.600 --> 0:40:46.520 the the they're relying on the fact that just the 0:40:46.600 --> 0:40:50.000 workplace is just indescribably authoritarian. I mean, it's it's like 0:40:50.040 --> 0:40:53.640 it's it's it's a dictatorship on a scale that is 0:40:53.680 --> 0:40:58.640 like like even to like the most despotic absolute monarch 0:40:58.840 --> 0:41:02.719 is just like onion saginable, like your boss gets to 0:41:02.800 --> 0:41:06.560 control like when you ship, like they get a control 0:41:06.640 --> 0:41:09.360 when you eat, they get a control exactly what you're doing, 0:41:10.000 --> 0:41:12.160 like at all times, they get control when you do it, 0:41:12.200 --> 0:41:15.200 they get a control like when the next time you're 0:41:15.239 --> 0:41:17.080 going to do it is. They don't even have to 0:41:17.120 --> 0:41:19.359 tell you when it's going to be untel like you 0:41:19.400 --> 0:41:23.359 show up and you know, for the this is this 0:41:23.400 --> 0:41:26.360 is this has been the gamble for for you know, 0:41:26.440 --> 0:41:28.839 capitalism bit tire existence, which is that like you just 0:41:28.880 --> 0:41:31.000 have to take this and eat ship or they get 0:41:31.000 --> 0:41:32.920 to take away your ability to eat, get medical care 0:41:32.960 --> 0:41:36.839 and have a place to leave to live. But that's 0:41:36.840 --> 0:41:40.360 not true anymore. Like you can just say no, you 0:41:40.400 --> 0:41:42.799 can tell them to funk off. You can, you know 0:41:42.920 --> 0:41:45.120 you can. You can, you can organize a union. You 0:41:45.160 --> 0:41:49.319 can just fucking just leave your job, like just leave it, 0:41:50.239 --> 0:41:52.719 fucking walk out. And this is why we focus. I mean, 0:41:52.719 --> 0:41:54.960 this is number one why within the context of unions, 0:41:54.960 --> 0:41:57.200 strike funds are so important, but also why mutual aid 0:41:57.239 --> 0:42:00.000 is so important. Is it it potentially when organized well enough, 0:42:00.040 --> 0:42:02.799 provides people with the option to like, well, how are 0:42:02.800 --> 0:42:05.160 you going to feed yourself? Well there's people in my 0:42:05.200 --> 0:42:07.280 community who want to make sure that I'm fed because 0:42:07.280 --> 0:42:10.400 they believe in what I'm striking for. Um, that's the 0:42:10.440 --> 0:42:12.920 promise of all of that. That's the practical behind the 0:42:13.000 --> 0:42:19.080 kind of high minded you know, anarchists of just you 0:42:19.120 --> 0:42:22.359 know whatever, theorizing is the ability that like, well, this 0:42:22.440 --> 0:42:27.200 actually is a weapon too. Yeah, and I think you 0:42:27.239 --> 0:42:31.920 know what else is a weapon? Christ I hope you're 0:42:31.920 --> 0:42:35.879 not being sponsored some of them. I hope we are. Chris. Look, 0:42:35.920 --> 0:42:38.640 I've I've said before for weapons. I'll read any ad 0:42:38.880 --> 0:42:40.799 for a weapons manufacturer as long as they send me 0:42:40.840 --> 0:42:44.160 some weapons. So come on, guys, get on it. You 0:42:44.200 --> 0:42:46.080 could uh, you could be you could be in the 0:42:46.080 --> 0:42:50.360 middle of this conversation. Rayphaon, you know, send me a 0:42:50.360 --> 0:42:53.319 couple of missile guidance chips Lockheed Martin. You know, you 0:42:53.400 --> 0:42:55.839 want to give me an F thirty five, We'll we'll 0:42:55.840 --> 0:42:58.879 plug you. You know. That's what's that's that's the deal. 0:42:59.360 --> 0:43:12.920 That's how it works. Baby. All right, we're back. Hopefully, 0:43:12.960 --> 0:43:15.440 hopefully you have now heard the advertisement for knife missile 0:43:15.480 --> 0:43:18.400 to knife missile harder now with like five knives, a 0:43:18.480 --> 0:43:21.839 thing that I am not making. It actually exists Yeah, 0:43:22.160 --> 0:43:24.400 people keep being surprised that the r nin X is 0:43:24.440 --> 0:43:26.799 a real thing. And yeah, but there's another one. There's 0:43:26.840 --> 0:43:30.200 there's there's one with more knives. They put more knives. Yeah, 0:43:30.239 --> 0:43:33.160 what do you You're not gonna look again, You can't. 0:43:33.200 --> 0:43:37.000 It's like with apple products, right, planned obsolescence is a 0:43:37.040 --> 0:43:40.640 critical You have to You can't just rest on your laurels. 0:43:40.680 --> 0:43:42.520 You're gonna run out of money. So you gotta make 0:43:42.520 --> 0:43:45.399 another knife missile with a couple of more knives. Yeah, 0:43:45.560 --> 0:43:48.920 just keep keep adding knives. Nothing can ever go wrong. 0:43:49.160 --> 0:43:54.120 Do not ask any questions about why you're developing knife missiles. 0:43:52.880 --> 0:43:56.919 Please send me one and like a drone or three. 0:43:57.640 --> 0:44:01.799 I swear to God I'll use it for legal purposes. Yeah. So, 0:44:01.880 --> 0:44:04.560 I guess the last thing that I that that's really 0:44:04.560 --> 0:44:12.640 interesting about this moment that doesn't usually happen is that 0:44:13.440 --> 0:44:15.759 you know, okay, so if you, if you, if you, 0:44:15.800 --> 0:44:18.359 if you, you read your very basic marks, right. One 0:44:18.400 --> 0:44:20.040 of the things Marks talks about is that there's this 0:44:20.080 --> 0:44:22.359 thing called the reserve Army of Labor, which is it's 0:44:22.400 --> 0:44:23.759 just like, you know, there's a bunch of people who 0:44:23.800 --> 0:44:27.600 are just always unemployed and they get along by doing 0:44:27.640 --> 0:44:31.800 sort of like odd jobs, like you know, like my, my, 0:44:31.960 --> 0:44:34.520 my quintessential person for this is like if you ever 0:44:34.520 --> 0:44:36.719 go on a subway, there's you know, it's it's the 0:44:36.719 --> 0:44:39.239 guy selling candy bars in the subway. Yeah right, it's 0:44:39.280 --> 0:44:43.560 people who quasi legal you know, sometimes they just kind 0:44:43.560 --> 0:44:47.120 of like doing whatever, you know, rants we call them. 0:44:47.120 --> 0:44:48.920 In the West Coast, you have a lot of those, 0:44:48.960 --> 0:44:52.520 like yeah, people who tream marijuana for a couple of 0:44:52.520 --> 0:44:54.600 months and then just kind of like crashing you know, 0:44:54.719 --> 0:44:56.480 camp sites the rest of the year or whatever. Like yeah, 0:44:56.520 --> 0:44:58.799 there's a bunch of those folks for sure. Yeah. And 0:44:58.800 --> 0:45:00.799 you know, and like the number of these people who 0:45:00.840 --> 0:45:02.800 have been just like kicked out of like the formal 0:45:02.880 --> 0:45:06.480 labor system has been increasing for a long time. But 0:45:06.719 --> 0:45:10.200 what's interesting about this moment is that you know, every 0:45:10.280 --> 0:45:13.680 every strike you see has a second strike behind it, 0:45:13.760 --> 0:45:16.799 and that strike is the informal general strike, which is 0:45:16.840 --> 0:45:20.400 just again people just quitting their jobs and leaving. And 0:45:20.719 --> 0:45:23.000 you have this weird moment where where normally the sort 0:45:23.000 --> 0:45:25.040 of reserve army of labor is this thing that like 0:45:25.440 --> 0:45:27.640 capitalism can always sort of rely on as a way 0:45:27.680 --> 0:45:30.280 to sort of solve its problems. Because it's like, oh, well, 0:45:30.600 --> 0:45:32.080 all right, if if you're not going to do this job, 0:45:32.120 --> 0:45:36.000 we can bring another person. But you know this, this 0:45:36.080 --> 0:45:38.520 is a weird moment where like the reserve Army of 0:45:38.560 --> 0:45:42.560 labor is like fighting on our side. M h. And 0:45:42.640 --> 0:45:46.319 the fact that all of these people are just like 0:45:46.760 --> 0:45:49.520 you know that they're seeing the just incredible authoritarianism of 0:45:49.560 --> 0:45:53.400 these workplaces that just horrific abuse. The fact that you 0:45:53.440 --> 0:45:55.400 know they're they're being in a lot of cases, just 0:45:56.120 --> 0:46:00.120 asked to show up and die, and they're saying, oh, 0:46:01.200 --> 0:46:05.279 is a really sort of is a really incredibly powerful thing. 0:46:05.400 --> 0:46:07.480 And when when when you add that to the fact 0:46:07.520 --> 0:46:10.000 that you know, all these companies have completely screwed themselves 0:46:10.000 --> 0:46:11.759 with how they designed the supply chains, it's it's all, 0:46:11.800 --> 0:46:14.840 it's all come back around and suddenly all all the 0:46:14.840 --> 0:46:17.600 supply chain stuff that they carefully laid out over decades 0:46:17.600 --> 0:46:20.320 and decades decades is a way to just like break 0:46:20.360 --> 0:46:22.920 the union movement and make sure nobody ever asked more wages. 0:46:23.800 --> 0:46:26.120 You know, it's it's it's it's it's been revealed to 0:46:26.160 --> 0:46:29.960 be incredibly fragile and you know, weak to our attack, 0:46:30.680 --> 0:46:34.760 and that leads us, I think, to this other tension 0:46:35.000 --> 0:46:38.040 in Biden's plan to sort of like revive the economy, 0:46:38.080 --> 0:46:42.840 which is that so the US technically speaking has this 0:46:43.040 --> 0:46:47.120 like very large central planning capability, but it only has 0:46:47.160 --> 0:46:51.320 it to like build weapons. So you know, like the 0:46:52.120 --> 0:46:54.239 army has this incredible ability like that. There there's a 0:46:54.600 --> 0:46:57.400 lot of bullets, you know it despite the huge stress 0:46:57.440 --> 0:47:00.600 on the bullets supply chain, it really has scale. You know, 0:47:00.680 --> 0:47:04.680 the prices have increased, but we're we're still still still 0:47:04.680 --> 0:47:08.319 getting bullets. America is great at making bullets. Yeah, it's 0:47:08.400 --> 0:47:12.560 less great at keeping tractors working, but be a problem. Yeah, 0:47:12.600 --> 0:47:14.320 then you're like even if even remember at the beginning 0:47:14.320 --> 0:47:16.360 of the pandemic, it was like the US just couldn't 0:47:16.360 --> 0:47:19.400 produce masks, like we said, we we never we never 0:47:19.480 --> 0:47:22.319 like did that, right like that, like the government never 0:47:22.360 --> 0:47:24.239 at any point was like we're just gonna make mass 0:47:24.239 --> 0:47:27.160 and given the people, they just never did it. And 0:47:27.200 --> 0:47:29.520 so you know, our mass supplies, all those supplic chains suck. 0:47:29.640 --> 0:47:32.600 And the only way that like the States can intervene 0:47:33.200 --> 0:47:35.120 and get the supply chains to work is by doing 0:47:35.120 --> 0:47:37.719 one of two things. It's by either doing a thing 0:47:37.719 --> 0:47:40.919 Biden was doing, which is just go to a bunch 0:47:40.920 --> 0:47:42.680 of companies and tell them to make all of their 0:47:42.680 --> 0:47:46.000 workers work harder, which is the thing that like, you know, 0:47:46.200 --> 0:47:48.880 totally won't backfire or explode in his face. And then 0:47:48.880 --> 0:47:54.319 the second thing is for Biden basically to like do 0:47:54.400 --> 0:47:57.080 all this saber rattling about how we have to have 0:47:57.239 --> 0:48:00.360 like medical supply chains in the US because national defense 0:48:00.440 --> 0:48:03.880 or something. And that's the second thing he's trying to do. 0:48:04.120 --> 0:48:09.040 But you know that just that just makes the problem worse, right, 0:48:09.080 --> 0:48:11.560 because what once you once you lose the ability to outsource, you, 0:48:11.560 --> 0:48:15.080 you lose the hammer even beating the unions with. And 0:48:15.120 --> 0:48:19.440 so you know, all all of the sort of all 0:48:19.719 --> 0:48:22.600 of the tendencies that are you know, making things like 0:48:22.800 --> 0:48:28.880 bad and scary right now are also weirdly making this. 0:48:29.760 --> 0:48:32.719 You know, the fact that prices are rising, right, the 0:48:33.000 --> 0:48:36.680 fact that there's all these shortages. It's it's it's making 0:48:36.800 --> 0:48:44.520 this like the best moment two, you know, it's it's 0:48:44.520 --> 0:48:47.080 it's making this the best moment that and that anyone's 0:48:47.080 --> 0:48:49.319 had in ages to actually try to make something better. 0:48:50.400 --> 0:48:52.880 And and and the important thing is we're starting to 0:48:52.880 --> 0:48:56.080 see it happen. And yeah, and we're we're we're we're 0:48:56.080 --> 0:48:58.759 gonna talk more about St. October and sort of the 0:48:58.760 --> 0:49:02.080 strike wave and the coming you know, weeks and months. 0:49:02.120 --> 0:49:05.160 But yeah, we're gonna we're gonna be hitting this pretty hard, 0:49:05.200 --> 0:49:07.040 even just next week. Um, we have a lot of 0:49:07.080 --> 0:49:08.880 stuff in the pipeline. Kind of wish we've gotten to 0:49:08.880 --> 0:49:11.480 it earlier, but there's a lot of stuff to talk 0:49:11.520 --> 0:49:14.960 about in the world y happening that that's within our milieu. 0:49:15.080 --> 0:49:18.160 It turns out when you're when you're specific focus is 0:49:18.200 --> 0:49:21.719 things falling apart. Uh, you're always behind uncovering all the 0:49:21.760 --> 0:49:24.839 things that are falling on the park. But I think 0:49:24.840 --> 0:49:27.719 it is a good time to to to drive this 0:49:28.280 --> 0:49:31.759 to a close, to drag this episode out behind the 0:49:31.800 --> 0:49:34.640 farm the barn, and and and shoot it and bury 0:49:34.680 --> 0:49:37.360 it in a shallow grave and and break its bones 0:49:37.400 --> 0:49:41.880 with the hammers that the police can't identify it. Chris Um, 0:49:42.000 --> 0:49:45.160 thank you for putting this together. I got anything anything 0:49:45.160 --> 0:49:50.400 else to say? Uh, quit your job, you or you 0:49:50.520 --> 0:49:53.359 and or unionize your workplace and or take it over 0:49:53.400 --> 0:49:56.719 and run it yourselves, because Lord knows the people who 0:49:56.760 --> 0:49:59.560 are telling you what to do, just literally do not 0:50:00.080 --> 0:50:06.200 or if you die. Yeah, I mean with with that Sorry, no, no, no, no, 0:50:06.239 --> 0:50:09.440 I was just gonna Uh, I don't know what I 0:50:09.480 --> 0:50:11.200 was gonna do, Chris, I don't know what I was 0:50:11.200 --> 0:50:13.640 gonna do. Do do Go go do something. You know 0:50:13.880 --> 0:50:16.920 you're you're listening to things, Go do something. Yeah, and 0:50:16.920 --> 0:50:19.560 and yeah, and if you want to listen to us, 0:50:19.680 --> 0:50:26.560 do more things. We are allegedly allegedly we we we 0:50:26.600 --> 0:50:29.920 are at cool zone Media on on the Twitter and 0:50:29.920 --> 0:50:32.600 and the you can't prove that in court, it's true. 0:50:33.320 --> 0:50:35.160 Good luck, good luck to them and try to for 0:50:35.280 --> 0:50:44.520 if that we did this. Yeah, that's right, motherfucker's all right. 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