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It's a studiously apolitical book but Marc Levinson's THE BOX (2016), a detailed history of containerized shipping, is a really great way to understand how the global supply chain works - and how terrifyingly precarious it is.
Those store shelves could be empty a *lot* more quickly than many people think.
press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691170817/the-box?srsltid=AfmBOoqXsS0CLVSoje_8d4RVV7xiLFh... ...
"There's more to life than being able to buy cheap garbage," sagely intones your friend from high school who became homicidally angry and had a complete mental breakdown from which he has never recovered because he couldn't go to big box stores and chain restaurants for 3 weeks in 2020. ...
Ray says:
The initial misstep is painfully clear. Their war plans were drawn up and presented in PowerPoint. Everybody knows that no important decisions should be made based on a PowerPoint presentation. This invasion was doomed before it began. The Iraqis no doubt knew about the PowerPoint slides, were enraged by it, and thus the insurgency was born.
Samantha says:
For your consideration, Ray:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters