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[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's not a supply and demand thing though. There just wouldn't be product to buy because there's no way to get it to the stores. It's less about the bankruptcy and more about availability.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 2 points 6 months ago

I mean the supply and demand for the trucking companies. Shipping is a vital service, if it had high taxes, it would have to dramatically increase prices for their shipping service, but they shouldn't go out of business because everyone else would still pay those dramatically high prices, because they'd have to