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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. ...
K says:
I can say without reservation–and I think others might agree–that the vision of Old Polish Guy, on the El, red-nosed and with inappropriately shifty eyes badly hidden behind a newspaper is my fondest wish for you as well.
Liz says:
I liked him. :-(
I will refrain from the thought-to-be-inevitable "old polish men" zing, since ed is out of town.
mike says:
You'll have to pay an import and tariff tax on any zings! sent at ed while he is out of the country.
mary says:
Well, you really know how to get to the heart of a man.
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