Ah but the servant waits… while the master baits…

The supply chain is all about logistics. It’s overwhelmed right now and it happened *snaps fingers* like that.

It costs about $1.50 per mile in freight for grocery stores to bring in one truck of goods.

Let’s assume one is coming from California (it wouldn’t, we basically get all our goods from states South of us down to Florida at the usual max), at a bit over 2,000 miles, so it costs about $3000 for one truck of goods to come to the store down the street from you through the supply chain. Max – realistically probably half that but we’ll use it and assume loading/unloading labor is added in it.

It can reasonably cost upwards of $90,000,000.00 for a private jet. Let’s say Joe Shmoe Billionaire has 5 of them. And he’s just one of today’s Pharoahs so we’re only talking about one flying pyramid.

One of those jets is the equivalent in $ to 30,000 trucks added to the supply chain. Or, rather, subtracted from it because Joe Shmoe doesn’t do his part in the fabled Supply-Side Economics magical ritual of offerings and sacrifice, he hoards it in the form of things like private planes.

$450,000,000 – almost half a $billion of value – not circulating in the economy and benefiting his whimsy instead by burning the equivalent of 15,000 jobs at $30k a year up in a bonfire to billionaire vanity. Half a $billion taken by upward redistribution over the last 4 decades, and better believe some of that came out of your pocket and you’re seeing with your own eyes how much that benefited you when you try to shop now.

Does he need that private plane more than you and your family need goods?

This is not hypothetical, and it’s gone from philosophical to bare reality – we’re past the point of any pretense that this is good for the country. The proof of it is the stark, empty shelf collection in supermarkets for nearly everyone in the country, now or on its way.

It’s not about whether Joe Shmoe is “entitled” to them. It’s about not being able to afford it because the country was very specifically not designed to benefit noblemen, lords, and kings because that recipe always results in a vulnerable peon class whether by Feudalism, Socialism, Communism, by Capitalism, or a bubble-gum and rubber-band-based system. Always.

I’ve been saying for years, “The last few generations were raised being told ‘we’re great’ but never taught what ‘greatness’ is.” So in a blind generic sense, we’ve lived decades to the endless refrain of “We’re the best at <insert literally anything here>”, “We have the best <whatever>”, “No one can do <whatever> better than we can” and we think of the world as an endless supply of things we want and need.

Well, the world is a lot smaller than everyone thought. Goods don’t magically appear when you wave a dollar bill in the air in a supermarket. It takes an actual strong society with actual strong production and an actually robust supply chain and that all happens when the peons are elevated instead of the lords and kings so the value, strength, and vitality of the society is in the society, not in a monarchy above it.

Entangled Proletariats: Spooky Communism at a Distance.

From mid-January through mid-February, Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler sold significant stocks on upticks, divesting from the market.

On February 21st, Republican Senate Intel Chief Richard Burr was secretly recorded advising people at a private function that the market was going to crash. He sold a significant amount of stock, divesting from the market, around this time.

On March 2nd, in the middle of the biggest uptick in DOW history, Republican Senator Ron Johnson sold a significant amount of stock, divesting from the market.

These are just the ones caught so far.

Donald Trump did not admit the severity of the crisis and declare a national emergency until March 13.

After his loyal Republican subjects and their super-wealthy donors were able to save themselves first via the largest organized act of insider trading in the history of the nation.

And then the Wall Street world fell apart like a wildfire, after the Republican-organized accelerant was poured all over everything with the unreal-level insider trading impact of 3500-4000 points dropped first.

It wasn’t until *AFTER* all gains in the stock market in the last three years were wiped out that the public was (more-or-less) finally leveled-with about the health crisis. First, the Republicans and their wealthy donors took the $1.5 trillion they gifted themselves with the tax scam two years ago plus all the good faith investments of all the peons, and cashed-out, leaving everyone else to get thoroughly destroyed.

The Republicans destroyed the economy, aimed a plane that was struggling to hold altitude straight at the ground, and parachuted to safety with everyone else’s money.

Remember this when the corporate entities represented and/or run by these exact same people are receiving $trillions on top of this as 327,968,615 or so American citizens fight over toilet paper like the proletariat of the Soviet Union in the 1980’s.

The Republicans have used Capitalism to do to the country what Communism did to them. Same mechanism, same result.