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I am from Brazil and I can say... things are screwed hard. 1. Food prices are rising fast, I am literally spending double per month now of what I spent 8 month
by speeder 6y ago
I am from Brazil and I can say... things are screwed hard.
1. Food prices are rising fast, I am literally spending double per month now of what I spent 8 months ago.
2. The shipping shortage led to a severe deficit of materials, my shop sell stuff to auto manufacturers, and one of them told me they will have to shut down the whole factory because they can't get their hands on a passenger seat shipment, and already have their yard full of incomplete cars.
3. The deficit even affected politics: we had elections recently, I talked to one mayor candidate in person, and the candidate complained they couldn't make certain forms of campaigning, for example handing out flags, because the flag manufacturer was struggling to get a shipment of plastic to make the flag handles!
4. Some cities there been utter chaos as trucks with produce pile up waiting for containers, this week in particular people almost came to blows because trucks started to fill up a city, and the mayor banned crowds from the farmer market because COVID, leading to farmers to start to unload produce in the middle of the street and grind the whole city economy to a halt.
5. My shop been trying to stock products because we can't rely on imports, this has been extremely crazy, we get shipments at random dates, demand spikes on random dates too, we ran out of physical space, manufacturers been raising prices to us out of the blue (sometimes two months in a row)´, and another manufacturer seemly just gave up, whenever we call them, they say there is no trucks available so they won't bother even trying to manufacture whatever we ordered.
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoFood prices are rising fast I don't think that's just the container crisis, your currency has been going down the shitter for some time now.
- imtringued 6y agoA food crisis causes the currency to "go down the shitter".
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoMore likely the out of control budget deficit.