We can’t argue that quality of life is sooo much better when production is such a mess. The only reason we hear the complaints is because of quality of life.
People with money can handle $1 more for an order of pretzel nuggets but make them wait and extra 2 minutes for it and the labor shortage is all over the news.
Not for nothing, but I’d bet my crispest dollar that our quality of life is still outrageously good. If you have to wait a few months for the $60,000 custom build F150 of your dreams, so be it. If someone’s gotta wait 5 minutes for their McNuggets, it’ll build out their patience.
Sure the system is under stress, but the problem is and always was us. The wealth inequality exacerbates it all and we’ll all eventually act like animals over it.
America's model of making a bunch of random models and shipping them out to sit on lots in the hope someone wants that model is bizarre.
In most other countries you order exactly what you want and they build it.
Same thing - only difference is they don’t have cars in stock. It’s done on demand.
Chrysler pulled this on me so I substituted the good with one from another maker. Months later Chrysler called with all trims magically available. This was well before the panorama but during the trade war.