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> What do you think will happen if the net exporters experience a global supply crisis? The way that countries that manufacture PPE halted exports last year is
by jbay808 6y ago
> What do you think will happen if the net exporters experience a global supply crisis?
The way that countries that manufacture PPE halted exports last year is a good reminder that the same can happen with food!
- waihtis 6y agoI was not acutely aware of this, but is a perfect example of what will happen in severe crisis scenarios: countries will ensure their own survival over others'.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoYou cannot eat money therefore exporting only works for as long as those supplies are not needed.
- paxys 6y agoThe fact that so many developing countries are massive exporters of food and goods while their own citizens are lacking easily disproves this.
- Joker_vD 6y ago"Not needed" by the people of doing the large-scale economical decisions, obviously. There is, of course, some level of poverty where the non-deciding people get fed up (heh) and revolt, but you have to just keep slightly above it, and things will be fine, as the most of the human history shows.
- macintux 6y agoDuring the potato famine, English landowners in Ireland were exporting food to Britain while the Irish starved to death.