Amazon created a concrete shortage

[DieselBound]

Try living in the PNW where there are so many many projects demanding every cement truck AND the cement workers are on strike.

You mean I have to "try," I haven't actually been living here?

Hot money flows. I'm buying ...

 

[DieselBound]

All those stores that have been mentioned lasted more than a lifetime. So maybe Amazon has another 60+/- years before it goes defunct too? It’s probably a little premature to worry about what happens to the building after it closes.

Ah, but as the standard prospectus goes: "past success does not guaranteed future performance." I can't say I have any beef with Amazon (there's plenty of stuff that needs an axe-grinding- I just see Amazon as a symptom), but I don't see them having a 60-year run (USD is on the verge of collapsing [when that happens pretty much all is going the heck in a handbasket; but, who knows, perhaps Amazon will be appropriated by society to become a big co-op...]).

 

[jyoutz]

Ah, but as the standard prospectus goes: "past success does not guaranteed future performance." I can't say I have any beef with Amazon (there's plenty of stuff that needs an axe-grinding- I just see Amazon as a symptom), but I don't see them having a 60-year run (USD is on the verge of collapsing [when that happens pretty much all is going the heck in a handbasket; but, who knows, perhaps Amazon will be appropriated by society to become a big co-op...]).

People have been saying that the US dollar is in imminent collapse since the 1930s.

 

[DieselBound]

People have been saying that the US dollar is in imminent collapse since the 1930s.

And? If you want to do into the details, which I'm doubtful you are, I'd be happy to explain.

 

[rademamj1]

Our new Amazon Fullfillment center here in Waco, TX opened this fall and is now fully operational, with 320 new jobs distributed over three work shifts. Looks like Amazon offered $15/hr wages and got only a few takers. So right now average starting salary is about $22.50 per hour and lots of overtime. Everyone got full benefits and $3000 hiring bonuses.

Between the Amazon fulfillment construction, the hundreds of new home construction going up for SpaceX employees and a major rebuild of I-35, concrete was absolutely hard to find the past year.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Ah, but as the standard prospectus goes: "past success does not guaranteed future performance." I can't say I have any beef with Amazon (there's plenty of stuff that needs an axe-grinding- I just see Amazon as a symptom), but I don't see them having a 60-year run (USD is on the verge of collapsing [when that happens pretty much all is going the heck in a handbasket; but, who knows, perhaps Amazon will be appropriated by society to become a big co-op...]).

I think you are probably right; only a matter of time till the house of cards falls. The American working class people have been lied to, cheated, and stolen from for decades at a minimum; just run the numbers on wealth in this country vs the bottom 90%.

 

[DieselBound]

Our new Amazon Fullfillment center here in Waco, TX opened this fall and is now fully operational, with 320 new jobs distributed over three work shifts. Looks like Amazon offered $15/hr wages and got only a few takers. So right now average starting salary is about $22.50 per hour and lots of overtime. Everyone got full benefits and $3000 hiring bonuses.

Between the Amazon fulfillment construction, the hundreds of new home construction going up for SpaceX employees and a major rebuild of I-35, concrete was absolutely hard to find the past year.

It's not that it's hard to find concrete, it's just that you couldn't HAVE it! I'd previously mentioned that I'll probably drop the notion of building a new house. THAT will relieve me of the distress over not being able to HAVE concrete Reminds me I need to check how a new build is going for a friend of mine (that'll amp up the stress a bit- I care about how it's affecting others).

 

[Steppenwolfe]

It's not that it's hard to find concrete, it's just that you couldn't HAVE it! I'd previously mentioned that I'll probably drop the notion of building a new house. THAT will relieve me of the distress over not being able to HAVE concrete Reminds me I need to check how a new build is going for a friend of mine (that'll amp up the stress a bit- I care about how it's affecting others).

With concrete at $150 bucks a yard, Amazon can have it...

 

[DieselBound]

I think you are probably right; only a matter of time till the house of cards falls. The American working class people have been lied to, cheated, and stolen from for decades at a minimum; just run the numbers on wealth in this country vs the bottom 90%.

Yes. I don't think it's meaningful to attack others on any of this. It's The System. I'd like to think that history won't repeat itself vis a vis bloodshed. I don't advocate for any system, just that people are allowed actual free and open discussion on everything- and do so honestly (to the best possible).

I no more look to glorify say Elon Musk, or Jeff Bezos, than I do Hollywood stars.

ALL fiat currencies fail. FACT. ALL empires collapse. FACT. Another FACT is that ideology, religion, type of leader etc. has absolutely little to do with why an empire collapses- NONE can keep the collapse from happening. Excellent read on the collapse of empires is Sir John Glubb's Fate Of Empires (can fetch it off the Internet- not a long read, but well worth it).

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Yes. I don't think it's meaningful to attack others on any of this. It's The System. I'd like to think that history won't repeat itself vis a vis bloodshed. I don't advocate for any system, just that people are allowed actual free and open discussion on everything- and do so honestly (to the best possible).

I no more look to glorify say Elon Musk, or Jeff Bezos, than I do Hollywood stars.

ALL fiat currencies fail. FACT. ALL empires collapse. FACT. Another FACT is that ideology, religion, type of leader etc. has absolutely little to do with why an empire collapses- NONE can keep the collapse from happening. Excellent read on the collapse of empires is Sir John Glubb's Fate Of Empires (can fetch it off the Internet- not a long read, but well worth it).

I'll check it out... And I agree for the most part; even when it comes to mankind as a whole...

 

[jyoutz]

And? If you want to do into the details, which I'm doubtful you are, I'd be happy to explain.

Every economist has a different opinion. Also amateur economists. Yours is one of many.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Every economist has a different opinion. Yours is one of many.

Isn't that the point? To share one's opinion? Otherwise, I am here for naught...

 

[jyoutz]

Isn't that the point? To share one's opinion? Otherwise, I am here for naught...

Very true, but the tone of the comment that I responded to sounded like they had absolute knowledge of the future. So many predictions over so many years, and yet few turn out to be correct. Me, I’m betting on the US continuing to persevere.

 

[MasseyFerg231]

Exactly. If anything, Calming residential development is a better idea than stifling commercial expansion.
Residences consume far more services than their tax revenues pay for. Commercial development typically had a net positive effect on revenue/services.

I wish someone would have calmed it in 2006/7/8!

 

[MasseyFerg231]

We'll see how you all feel about it when you can't get in to town from the increase in traffic.

It's all well and good till it stops construction on YOUR building or chokes the main passage to YOUR local business.

It started effecting our business January 2021 pretty hard with lead times more with steel bar joists. Shortage of concrete is more regional in my opinion.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

People have been saying that the US dollar is in imminent collapse since the 1930s.

It happened. The 2021 dollar is worth about 6 cents in 1930 money. Ready for it to happen again?

 

[3 Horse Ranch]

It happened. The 2021 dollar is worth about 6 cents in 1930 money. Ready for it to happen again?

Dollar value is just an arbitrary number. The real denominator is the value of the average hourly wage. Judging by living standards of ninety years ago compared to now, I'd say we are doing pretty darn good. The average wage earner has a much higher standard of living and way more disposable income compared to the 1930s. I'll take now over then any day.

 

[jyoutz]

Dollar value is just an arbitrary number. The real denominator is the value of the average hourly wage. Judging by living standards of ninety years ago compared to now, I'd say we are doing pretty darn good. The average wage earner has a much higher standard of living and way more disposable income compared to the 1930s. I'll take now over then any day.

Very true

 

[seville009]

People have been saying that the US dollar is in imminent collapse since the 1930s.

who has said that? What is the basis for making such a statement?

 

[jyoutz]

who has said that? What is the basis for making such a statement?

My grandfather and many in his generation