[HN Gopher] There's No 'Supply-Chain Shortage,' or Inflation. Th...
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       There's No 'Supply-Chain Shortage,' or Inflation. There's Just
       Central Planning
        
       Author : Alupis
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2021-10-28 20:37 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.forbes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.forbes.com)
        
       | Grakel wrote:
       | What a strange, labyrinthine article. No specific claims or
       | facts, just broad, blurry analogies and unfinished thoughts. I'm
       | on his side of the aisle and I can't even make heads or tails of
       | his point. Not sure if this was written while high or generated
       | by AI in a different language and translated.
        
         | quantified wrote:
         | Where is the actual "central planning"? Have our government
         | officials dictated that 1M Teslas will be built in Fremont, CA
         | this year, or that 5M bushels of wheat will be purchased by
         | Florida?
         | 
         | If I squint, it seems more a complaint that there were pandemic
         | shutdowns that disrupted the flow, but that's about all I can
         | see.
        
         | aeternum wrote:
         | I think it does. The author asserts that rather than focus on
         | too much money in the system as the cause of inflation, we
         | should really be focused on how the means of production has
         | been shutdown or inhibited.
         | 
         | The assertion is that government-imposed supply chain
         | disruption is the primary factor currently driving inflation.
        
           | quantified wrote:
           | > A rise in one price due to lack of supply implies a fall in
           | other price
           | 
           | This makes no sense. Price rises beget price rises. Oil,
           | computer chips, labor, whatever.
        
       | npwr wrote:
       | What a poorly written article. This reads like the ramblings of a
       | paranoid schizophrenic: No point, no argument, no conclusion.
        
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