We need to go back to local. The supply chain is broken!
Since I established myself in a poor rural community and live among the locals, it became all the more clear how these people are really suffering from getting supplies at reasonable prices.
In my area, the plantations are literally on our door steps and many people here makes a tiny living from it. Honestly though, they are nothing but exploited.
The big companies give them shameful little money for the raw products especially since the government operated mills that worked wood into product, has been dysfunctional for years, so they have nowhere else to sell. A Monopoly once gain with only a few fat cats that reaps huge profits from it.
In the end, locals needs to buy the building materials from commercial outlets who stock timber that comes from far elsewhere in the country. Thus, locals needs to buy a product they could find locally, through a chain that adds markup at every stop.
How did we get here? For me, this is the pinnacle of proof of the unsuitability of consumerism.
Many would like to argue that capitalism is a successful financial system which utilise market forces and innovation of people.
Is capitalism without consumerism still possible? Catch 2022...
