Fight club predicted it. Feds honed it and made it more destructive via paid splinter groups.

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While I don't doubt this theory - I'm just wondering how things got so bad since pre-COVID. Where did all the good workers go (all industries)? This is turning into some real Atlas Shrugged. I'm guessing a lot of this is older experienced workers retiring while new generation just doesn't know how to do much other than stare at their phones.

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Could be consequences of nepotism. Lots of people say they will hire the best candidate, but when it comes time to pull the trigger they hire their friends or a family member who " needs a job". Lots of these folks aren't prepared and screw up then problems like this happen.

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StockHorseAg said:

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The deferred maintenance problem is also what is causing all of the train derailment problems in my opinion. Along with longer trains and more pressure to preform with less crews.

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Weird. Didn't Obama and Biden fleece our tax dollars for "infrastructure" improvements?

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Except railroads are privately owned. Their faux-infrastructure bills were about "roads and bridges".

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Railroads receive all kinds of public grants. Used to be called Tiger grants. Has other names now. Millions and millions of dollars going out all over the country.

Muy said:

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I hate reading this stuff since my older son works in supply chain and is always working in manufacturing plants like this and other food processing plants.

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Thank him for his service.

Insurance scams, farmers face bankruptcy so they decide to go out with a bang instead and let a corporation buy the farm.

A dairy like that is a corporate farm. Farmer Brown doesn't milk 17,000 cows.

jebbush said:

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Insurance scams, farmers face bankruptcy so they decide to go out with a bang instead and let a corporation buy the farm.

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Insane nonsense

Jack Boyett said:

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A dairy like that is a corporate farm. Farmer Brown doesn't milk 17,000 cows.

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Do you really consider every corporation as beacons of honesty and integrity?

David Happymountain said:

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Fight club predicted it. Feds honed it and made it more destructive via paid splinter groups.

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This may sound crazy, but to me it is way more comforting to hope all of these recent derails and ag/livestock explosions are conspiracy driven by bad foreign actors or eco-terrorists, than the alternative. Attacks can be nipped in the bud or eventually fade away. If these recent incidents are largely a product of declining infrastructure, combined with increasing incompetence, and older more experienced people being replaced buy bumbling halfwits...I don't see how you fix that. I would expect these events only to increase in frequency. Supply chain disruptions in the future are going to be like nothing we have ever seen.

jebbush said:

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Insurance scams, farmers face bankruptcy so they decide to go out with a bang instead and let a corporation buy the farm.

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lol goodness