Besides the last one, you’re literally describing the way business works.

the reason pbj sammich cost so much is because people are buying pb & j on their credit card to put on bread they haven’t night yet to make pbj sammiches that don’t exist yet, etc that’s just how shit works.

I mean, very few people buy peanut butter that hasn’t been manufactured yet.

The peanut butter you buy a month from now hasn’t been manufactured yet but the grocery store already has their order in. The grocery store is borrowing money to pay wages for shifts that haven’t been worked yet. The peanut butter manufacturer is placing orders to peanut farms for peanuts that haven’t been harvested yet. The shipping truck manufacturer is putting in orders for tires, wheels, locking mechanisms, and trailers that don’t exist yet, so on and so forth for almost everything in the supply chain.

No great injustice, just business as usual.

“Putting in orders” is not the same as “buying”.

The peanut butter I buy in a month hasn’t been manufactured, and if it’s not there in a month I’m not buying it.

The grocery store might be borrowing money but they’re not paying wages for hours that haven’t been worked. They’re doing their best to not even pay wages for hours that have been worked.

• Be company
• Need RAM
• RAM no exist
• Order RAM, guarantee payment on delivery. Capital set aside. This order is a contract. It’s not Amazon. 5, 6, 7 digit deals being made.
• RAM gets made. Capacity, materials, labor set aside to make RAM, not random guy (sad). Capacity/capital assigned to my RAM not available for sad guy.
• RAM exist, delivered. Exchange occurs. I got RAM, they got money. Sad guy still no RAM.
• I put RAM in systems that don’t exist yet that were ordered by AI company for a data center that doesn’t exist yet. Sad guy still no RAM.
• Sad guy never had a chance to get the RAM. Assumes he has a right to RAM, memes on Reddit so that guy can download it and post it on Lemmy. Still no RAM, though.
• Another guy pretends to not understand this and takes peanut butter analogy literally even though it is obviously oversimplified. Probably sad about no RAM.
• Guy realizes that all of modern commerce is based on promises of payment for things that don’t exist yet that become inputs for things that don’t exist yet. Guy realizes that optimization of this system is the primary concern of modern manufacturing engineering and is the basis of just-in-time manufacturing and LEAN manufacturing in general.

If the peanut butter isn’t there, you won’t buy it. But everyone in the peanut butter supply chain is behaving as though it will be on the shelf when you need it. Also, orders are contracts. It’s not Amazon.