. Cheap African labour is the new gold rush and it won't be long until North American manufacturers cash in on it too (agri-business is already there buying up millions of acres of land.) I expect car parts for a Honda, or a GM, or a Mercedes will all be made in plants in Dakar Senegal.
Other than the tires, my Mercedes was built in Spain with parts from central Europe.
So, not even cheap Asian labour, never mind African.
But anyway, I'm starting to think that this economic shutdown is a good thing. For the planet. Our never-ending growth is not sustainable with finite resources. Doesn't help that I just finished watching
Planet of the Humans and it's made me depressed. I kind of don't want to buy anything ever again and just go live off the land.
This plague has been an interesting social experiment. Amazon sales have blown up (Bezos is worth 30B$ more than three months ago, apparently) so it is apparent that our destructive consumerist tendencies haven't abated as much as we'd like to believe or as much as economic indicators might suggest, but I'm sure consumption has gone down in significant numbers anyway.
I'd like to see it remain suppressed. We can't have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources, and to paraphrase from the documentary named above, it's not the carbon molecule that is the problem, it's us.
Try not buying anything for the next month, other than necessities, being food. Literally just food.
I haven't bought anything other than food and legal drugs since the plague hit so I'm sitting on money that I'm investing, but I'd like to keep this going for another few months.
Plague No Buy Challenge....it's not even that hard, I don't think.
What the hell is everyone buying from Amazon anyway?