Much like the internet isn’t one thing, the supply chain isn’t either.
Instead, it’s a complex, symbiotic relationship between consumption and production that, in theory, is supposed to balance out. And usually it does.
But when it doesn’t, you get the current toilet paper aisle at your favorite local grocery store with limited supplies.
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