The supply chain crisis is the universe’s way of teaching Americans about logistics. The number of new homes being built in the U.S. is constrained by supply chain issues. Increasingly, Americans are also learning about the final step, the most exquisitely crafted and then forgotten cog in the supply chain: us. In the history of the supply chain, it was the revolutionary caring for one’s fellow workers — freed and enslaved — that broke a cotton supply chain premised on white supremacy and the tradability of enslaved humans. This “broken” supply chain is an opportunity to realize that the opposite of individual consumption isn’t abstinence.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 28, 2021 10:17 UTC