Everyone’s still buying iPhones and Macs. Thank god. We may not have food but our economy is saved.
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There’s running out of food, and there’s “watching your economy fail to be able to provide basic food products for the first time since WWII”. They’re different things. But both are kind of alarming.
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There were beef shortages in the 70s.https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/31/archives/shortage-of-beef-is-growing-here-workers-in-meat-industry-laid.html …
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The store running out of one kind of meat is not that big a disaster. The problem here is Americans telescoping mild shortages with total apocalypse, since both are so foreign to recent experience. But there's a long way down before you hit malnutrition or even real inconvenience
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