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Didn’t a lot of businesses get into a lot of problems (and as such costs) precisely because of these supply chain problems?
by stingraycharles 4y ago
Didn’t a lot of businesses get into a lot of problems (and as such costs) precisely because of these supply chain problems?
- andreareina 4y agoThere's a lot of will now. What about in ten years, how much carrying cost are companies going to be willing to sustain?
- SQueeeeeL 4y agoYa, if you can optimize this quaters earnings by 6% at the expense of your business literally potentially collapsing in 3-5 years, that is considered optimal under our present system of shareholder ownership. Shareholders by their very nature don't need to care about stewardship or longevity of a business because they own a small portion of a company for a short time.
- dehrmann 4y ago> literally potentially collapsing in 3-5 years 3-5 is pessimistic. This was a p99 event. You can count on some level of government bailout for those.
- stingraycharles 4y agoThere are other types of p99 events that have similar results.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoThe costs needs to be measured against all the gains over the last decades without the robustness.
- dehrmann 4y agoOutside of critical supplies (food, energy, medicine), I suspect the answer is the ROI of robustness is negative. People can wait an extra year for their Xbox and stretch a few more years out of their car if it's once a generation.
- trashtester 4y agoBlack swan events can be a lot worse than the current one, though....
- SkyPuncher 4y agoYes, but it's all relative. For example, nearly the entire car industry is impacted by supply chain problems. The result has been fewer cars sold for higher prices.