Something I can't get over is how decentralized capital and production is in this country. Highways and pipelines built to circumvent old choke points of logistics in the railroads, small factories with a dozen different suppliers so the supply chain can't be busted https://twitter.com/as_a_worker/status/1355557115620962309

In construction, the wood comes from Georgia Pine, which has about a dozen different sawmills scattered throughout Georgia, the wire comes from a dozen different factories (I am blanking on the name), the nibco pipe is made in 5 different foundries

All of them owned by the same company that could consolidate into giant mega-plants, but won't, because that'd be a weakness, so instead they operate these different plants and pit the workers of one against the other

In the chicken industry, when one of 2 dozen slaughterhouses went on strike for a week, they just diverted all the chickens from that area to surrounding slaughterhouses, lost a lil coin but no where near what they could've

The only exception is US steel which is down to one mega factory in Gary Indiana that employs approx 6 people, produces a trillion tons of steel, and is perpetually in the red, lol