Hello and welcome to I'm So Glad My Suffering Amuses, a packing peanut of a blog in the vast packing crate of the internet.
On Mondays, I like to catch up with what's going on in the world with a post I call "News of the World" (after the great classic Queen album from the 1970's).
So let's get on with this week's "News of the World" without further...
...delay?
OK, as a person who is not a frequent consumer of stuff, this ongoing story has slipped up on me.
Apparently, it's getting hard to get stuff.
And it's not likely to get easier to get stuff any time soon.
And what with Christmas coming up and everything.
Baby Jesus is not going to be happy.
What is the cause of this capitalism catastrophe?
Well, if you listen to Fox News, it's the Democrats fault.
They've always wanted to cancel Christmas, don't you know.
But really...
As with most things that Fox News tries to pin on a single bogeyman, the reasons are fairly complicated.
Here is the list of causes for the problems with getting stuff:
- shortages of containers
- floods
- COVID-19 outbreaks
- manufacturing shutdowns
- backlogged ports
- shortages of truck drivers
- understaffed warehouses
Basically there is a long chain of problems, any one of which can cause a hiccup in the supply chain from the factory floor to the Amazon box on your doorstep.
What's happening now is a perfect storm of all of these things happening at once.
In a country enthralled to mass consumerism and instant gratification of desires for stuff, Americans are not likely to take this well.
There is already groundswell of complaints for delayed deliveries against, you guess it, the delivery services.
Let's blame UPS for getting your doo-dad delivered late.
Or Joe Biden. Since, you know, he hates Christmas.
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