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It would be highly interesting to see a "tree of suppliers" for a single product - including how many people each part relied on, history etc. I would imagine
by kossTKR 5y ago
It would be highly interesting to see a "tree of suppliers" for a single product - including how many people each part relied on, history etc.
I would imagine a smartphone for example having an unimaginably large diagram.
- philistine 5y agoWho makes the acid used to bleach the recycled cardboard for the box? Seriously if you include the box, a phone touches so much of our economy it’s astounding.
- techdragon 5y agoOutside of specific fields/circumstances and/or a generous interpretation of just what counts as part of the supply chain, it’s basically impossible. The moment even the simplest items, like surplus vegetables grown and harvested by a slightly above subsistence level farmer on traditionally owned land, get carried in a truck, or even a bicycle, your supply chain explodes into a vast interconnected web of circular links. Which trucks trucked the parts to make the trucks to truck the parts to make the trucks that trucked the parts to make the trucks that… and so on.