Yeah. It’s absolutely insane. The industry was not incentivized whatsoever to prepare for a change in demand levels. They’re like OPEC, chuckling while the supply dries up and prices go through the roof, all under the cover of the pandemic. Even if the cause is not so nefarious, thee ownership class in our society saw fit to not expend any capital to build any redundancy into our economy. So when stuff got out of whack with the pandemic, the problems cascaded through the whole damn system. It’s like automakers switching back to a single circuit brake system just so the shareholders get a bump and the CEOs could get a raise. Make no mistake, the economy has been doing just fine in recent years and the raises have not gone to the workers…but all of the expenses have. I don’t have a degree in any of this so I’m also taking out of my tailpipe to some degree. But let me just say that if something damaged the factory applied UAW sticker on my daily driver, I’d order a replacement. I fully know that unions can pull some shenanigans too but they’re the only thing that has ever worked to prevent the kind of economy that we have now. The rich are eating our lunch, shooting themselves into space because they have so much money, they don’t know what to do with it, while we cringe every time we go to the gas pump.
