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> but has instead produced slightly less than huge choice variety at some moments in time. I'm not sold that's a disaster. Yeah, the ship has a hole which visi
by yetihehe 5y ago
> but has instead produced slightly less than huge choice variety at some moments in time. I'm not sold that's a disaster.
Yeah, the ship has a hole which visibly widens, but we are not underwater yet, so that's not a disaster.
- vba616 5y agoThat's a metaphor that could be applied to literally anything. What point about reality is it making? Are people standing in line for toilet paper or bread?
- yetihehe 5y agoOf course those problems can be fixed and are not too bad YET, but saying that you don't need to worry about this is wrong.
- Dylan16807 5y agoWhat widening? Throughput at ports is within a few percent of where it has been.
- jerf 5y agoThe first derivative of food supply disruption is clearly positive. The exact value of the second is debatable, but I feel confident saying it is at least not clearly substantially negative. Slightly negative at best and I can't give a lot of evidence for that. The sum total of that disruption has not yet burned through our buffer, though it has caused a noticeable rise in prices. However, it is not wise to wait for our buffer to be entirely gone before being willing to identify the problem.
- Dylan16807 5y ago> The first derivative of food supply disruption is clearly positive. It might be more than it was a month ago, but it seems to me that we had worse disruption earlier in the pandemic than we have right now.