> Now lets see what happens with buffers. > Understanding why I'm out of ammo: wait, I'm not out of ammo. I've got thousands of ammo buffered up right now. As

> Now lets see what happens with buffers. > Understanding why I'm out of ammo: wait, I'm not out of ammo. I've got thousands of ammo buffered up right now. As such, I don't fix the problem for 2 or 3 hours. We don't live in a centrally planned (by a single person) economy where companies are run by simple automation. Companies are run by people. These people notice when their suppliers are disrupted. They notice when they can't refill their buffers even before the buffers run out. And suppliers of raw materials certainly notice raw material shortages. We didn't find out about the chip shortage from the article you linked when Toyota's buffer of chips ran out.