A Twenty Year Truck Driver - I Will Tell You Why America's "Shipping Crisis" Will Not End

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7. Agreed with all points.

Most of our social system and infrastructure is a failure of design. The greed heads who are sucking the life out of everything are short sighted idiots who are only interested in their own profits. Human kind has had most of our most significant advances through cooperation instead of competition, and our most renewable resources are our ingenuity and our ability to care for each other and this beautiful planet that we live on. The current supply chain is fragile, overly susceptible to disruption and is not sustainable in the long run. On further consideration, it is not sustainable in the short-term either. Right now, most of us older people are tired of working in systems that are hostile and designed to grind us into dust, Younger people have not been trained to step in to these jobs, and given the crummy pay, the lack of benefits and the miserable working conditions, they can't be blamed for not stampeding into this line of work. The plutocrats and their dysfunctional business model are reaping what they have sown for years. The one gift of the pandemic is that the actual value of service jobs can be clearly seen, and the folly of treating workers as disposable is starkly exposed.