How video games explain the supply chain crisis
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Date: 2023-12-10
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-joestack1921
I-m an Amazon delivery driver and in my experience, the trucks in the morning are ALMOST just on time most days, often about 15 minutes late. So then they make us rush extra hard to load up our vans. Then we take the packages to 150ish customers per day and we get to choose in which order we do them. Amazon-s algorithmic route sequences are almost always nonsense. And That-s why your estimated delivery time is always wrong. -
Leave candy bars on your porch for us ok thanks
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I-m an Amazon delivery driver and in my experience, the trucks in the morning are ALMOST just on time most days, often about 15 minutes late. So then they make us rush extra hard to load up our vans. Then we take the packages to 150ish customers per day and we get to choose in which order we do them. Amazon-s algorithmic route sequences are almost always nonsense. And That-s why your estimated delivery time is always wrong. -
Leave candy bars on your porch for us ok thanks
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-Minihood31770
The summary of logistical history is good, but IMO you missed out pretty big detail.
Slavery.
Where in a game like satisfactory we get a machine to automatically harvest resources, IRL western society used slave labour.
It's a key part of how the modern capitalist economy evolved, and is what allowed the industrial sector to boom.
The raw materials for all those industries were being harvested dirt cheap with stolen labour.
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The summary of logistical history is good, but IMO you missed out pretty big detail.
Slavery.
Where in a game like satisfactory we get a machine to automatically harvest resources, IRL western society used slave labour.
It's a key part of how the modern capitalist economy evolved, and is what allowed the industrial sector to boom.
The raw materials for all those industries were being harvested dirt cheap with stolen labour.
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-Schnellinator1
Automation/technology should be an inherently good thing. Production with less labor should, as a whole, help humanity.
Inventing farming tools used to mean the farmer does less work.
Now it means the worker gets set on some other work, or loses a job.
An economics issue in the end. The benefits of automation/technology no longer benefit the working class.
These games rock btw.
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Automation/technology should be an inherently good thing. Production with less labor should, as a whole, help humanity.
Inventing farming tools used to mean the farmer does less work.
Now it means the worker gets set on some other work, or loses a job.
An economics issue in the end. The benefits of automation/technology no longer benefit the working class.
These games rock btw.
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-lilwage6910
logistics games very rarely feature the human element, it's all automation via machines. When you realize this, you also realize that before machines we're invented, the rich were playing flesh factorio, using humans to do everything the exact same way you do machines, the -salary- is simply the upkeep cost of that piece.
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logistics games very rarely feature the human element, it's all automation via machines. When you realize this, you also realize that before machines we're invented, the rich were playing flesh factorio, using humans to do everything the exact same way you do machines, the -salary- is simply the upkeep cost of that piece.
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polygon
My favorite is when rail companies destroy rail lines to reduce supply and drive up prices, while moving more cargo onto trucks that destroy the fragile roads paid for with public taxes. The fact that many truck drivers are independent contractors who can take a job that ends up paying less than minimum wage is a nice bonus
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My favorite is when rail companies destroy rail lines to reduce supply and drive up prices, while moving more cargo onto trucks that destroy the fragile roads paid for with public taxes. The fact that many truck drivers are independent contractors who can take a job that ends up paying less than minimum wage is a nice bonus
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-verager2493
Business execs spend all day, every day cutting -waste- and -trimming the fat. -
But talk to any engineer, and they'll tell you that some redundancy is efficient, because it flattens down production troughs. Statistically, the Bad Thing WILL happen, on a long enough timeline. What's the plan when it does?
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Business execs spend all day, every day cutting -waste- and -trimming the fat. -
But talk to any engineer, and they'll tell you that some redundancy is efficient, because it flattens down production troughs. Statistically, the Bad Thing WILL happen, on a long enough timeline. What's the plan when it does?
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-drewmclean163
This is the 2020s moral panic.
90s parents: -Video games will encourage my child to do murder! We must put a stop to this! -
2020s parents: -Video games will encourage my child to become an industrialist and repalce human labour with machines! We must put a stop to this! -
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This is the 2020s moral panic.
90s parents: -Video games will encourage my child to do murder! We must put a stop to this! -
2020s parents: -Video games will encourage my child to become an industrialist and repalce human labour with machines! We must put a stop to this! -
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-theherooftime
Good video. The part about appeasing shareholders made me think that journalists should stop posting headlines about losses without digging into what the company has potentially sacrificed in order to invest in their employees, which could be seen as an investment in the company.
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Good video. The part about appeasing shareholders made me think that journalists should stop posting headlines about losses without digging into what the company has potentially sacrificed in order to invest in their employees, which could be seen as an investment in the company.
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-flfb
imagine if we lived in a world where automation was something exciting that would make our lives better and give us more time to enjoy life instead of doing the work now done automatically, instead of having discourse about whether automation will decimate the working class even further.
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imagine if we lived in a world where automation was something exciting that would make our lives better and give us more time to enjoy life instead of doing the work now done automatically, instead of having discourse about whether automation will decimate the working class even further.
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polygon
I recently moved into a place with a VERY loud AC unit so it-s given me new appreciation for y-all-s captioning team. I can also only describe that outro nonsense as -cheesy vacation music, - 10/10 thanks y-all - (& also thanks for everything)
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I recently moved into a place with a VERY loud AC unit so it-s given me new appreciation for y-all-s captioning team. I can also only describe that outro nonsense as -cheesy vacation music, - 10/10 thanks y-all - (& also thanks for everything)
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-hemangchauhan2864
A-train deserves mention. It was Japanese answer to Railroad Tycoon with its own ideas. The two games on PC are a good start.
Love your stuff, though this time it could use less hard jumpcuts -
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A-train deserves mention. It was Japanese answer to Railroad Tycoon with its own ideas. The two games on PC are a good start.
Love your stuff, though this time it could use less hard jumpcuts -
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-equivocator7727
I would love to welcome automation. Exploiting machines is much less morally reprehensible than exploiting humans. We just need to fix the whole -people need to live- problem first.
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I would love to welcome automation. Exploiting machines is much less morally reprehensible than exploiting humans. We just need to fix the whole -people need to live- problem first.
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-davekachel
Pleasure from logistics? What am I? A perv! This is my job and at home I t-r-a-i-n for my job! T-Train? No not this train! I speak of t-r-a-i-n-i-n-g not a kink or something! I SWEAR
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Pleasure from logistics? What am I? A perv! This is my job and at home I t-r-a-i-n for my job! T-Train? No not this train! I speak of t-r-a-i-n-i-n-g not a kink or something! I SWEAR
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-bookwormbeth380
I had to show my husband about the video, the one with 5k hours in satisfactory and factorio (not to mention all the other ones he plays)
Very good.
TRAINS: D
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I had to show my husband about the video, the one with 5k hours in satisfactory and factorio (not to mention all the other ones he plays)
Very good.
TRAINS: D
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-The_JLav
I was overjoyed to hear the -that's logistics- ad! It is an important part of my soul and shamefully few people in my life know what I'm talking about when I reference it
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I was overjoyed to hear the -that's logistics- ad! It is an important part of my soul and shamefully few people in my life know what I'm talking about when I reference it
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-TwoSpark55
Factorio's bugs becoming more aggressive and furthering their evolution with pollution is part of the driving factor for my spread out and mostly eco-friendly design.
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Factorio's bugs becoming more aggressive and furthering their evolution with pollution is part of the driving factor for my spread out and mostly eco-friendly design.
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-AmbientRadiation
I put quite a lot of time into Satisfactory. and one day I looked at everything I'd built and felt overwhelmingly depressed. I don't play satisfactory anymore.
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I put quite a lot of time into Satisfactory. and one day I looked at everything I'd built and felt overwhelmingly depressed. I don't play satisfactory anymore.
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polygon
I recently had to move back to the suburbs to live with my parents and i miss trains! i miss the subway! i miss not having to drive everywhere! I WANT MORE TRAINS
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I recently had to move back to the suburbs to live with my parents and i miss trains! i miss the subway! i miss not having to drive everywhere! I WANT MORE TRAINS
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-sprightlyoaf9583
All those years of non-automation-themed video games were solely for the purpose of training my reaction time so I could applaud in time at 7: 23
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All those years of non-automation-themed video games were solely for the purpose of training my reaction time so I could applaud in time at 7: 23
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polygon
Which game is he playing that has a full world map and different named regions? It looks like it-s about terraforming a planet with people on it?
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Which game is he playing that has a full world map and different named regions? It looks like it-s about terraforming a planet with people on it?
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-gregbutchello811
Me at 7: 24 realizing my hands are moving: Wait, why am I clapping for a standard cargo container? That's the power of Clayton Ashley
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Me at 7: 24 realizing my hands are moving: Wait, why am I clapping for a standard cargo container? That's the power of Clayton Ashley
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-yitzakIr
Liking logistics games doesn-t make you a bad person but it should definitely get you put on a watch list.
Source: 200 hours in Factorio
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Liking logistics games doesn-t make you a bad person but it should definitely get you put on a watch list.
Source: 200 hours in Factorio
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-half_pixel
Amazing timing for this video, given the Factorio expansion announcement this morning. The high-energy editing style is always great too: D
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Amazing timing for this video, given the Factorio expansion announcement this morning. The high-energy editing style is always great too: D
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-LS-jj4sy
I just started satisfactory finally and man oh man yeah it's addicting and so depressing lol (which is the point and they do it so well)
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I just started satisfactory finally and man oh man yeah it's addicting and so depressing lol (which is the point and they do it so well)
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-MiseFreisin
My 'I applauded for the standard cargo container' t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions like -Where can I get one of those? -
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My 'I applauded for the standard cargo container' t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions like -Where can I get one of those? -
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-waltermundt
Great stuff. I am mildly sad that the video description doesn't have a list of the games depicted with store links though.
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Great stuff. I am mildly sad that the video description doesn't have a list of the games depicted with store links though.
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-rustbucket5189
Do we have a list of the games that were used for footage in this video I need it for -cough- research purposes
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Do we have a list of the games that were used for footage in this video I need it for -cough- research purposes
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-torpisoul5254
I like the information of this video, I hate the editing style. Please don't make a 20 minute tiktok video.
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I like the information of this video, I hate the editing style. Please don't make a 20 minute tiktok video.
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-thegenericguy8309
Workers and Resources is the one true -how supply chains actually tend to fail in real life- simulator
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Workers and Resources is the one true -how supply chains actually tend to fail in real life- simulator
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-juliahavok
this was such a good video! informative and entertaining. I enjoyed it so much i wanted to send yall kudos-
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this was such a good video! informative and entertaining. I enjoyed it so much i wanted to send yall kudos-
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