Comments by "" (@ericsaxon5736) on "Why is there no Silicon Valley in Europe? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

Imagine two different worlds with no trade or exchange of ideas between them. A US world and a Europe world. In which one of these worlds would you be sitting behind a computer, watching VisualPolitik on the internet, drinking a coffee ordered from an app and wondering when they will cure cancer? And in which one of these world would you be reading a newspaper by candle light? You talk about quality of life but seem to have completely forgotten that quality of life is primarily based on technological innovation.
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@Fantastika "The internet was created by France and the UK, not smelly americans" Is that right? Well, shucks, I'm so glad to have learned that. Where did you get your education? The University of Fantasy or the Reeducation Center of Hogwarts?
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@valerievankerckhove9325 You went to hiking after a train ride for only $10. Fantastic. How was your train powered? Rainbows and the beating of butterfly wings? Or perhaps natural gas/oil brought in by ship, through an ocean lane, protected by a navy that uses the latest and greatest technologies? Was a USN Carrier fleet keeping the shipping lanes open and pirates suppressed so that you could only pay $10 for your traveling expense? Or was perhaps someone else forced to pay for the subsidies that allowed you to travel on the cheap? I think it is very quaint when people imply that they do everything on the cheap by using 'simple means and methods,' without taking into account the the complex background systems that allow for them to have 'simple means and methods.' The rest, I honestly don't have time to dissect or analyze, since I'd have to write a dissertation on macro economics and that would take hours. Besides, I don't think you honestly think good urban planning or lowered transportation costs are naturally that low without someone or some government paying for it after having squeezed taxes out of some corporation. :)
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@ab-gu2nh Before the current iteration of the Internet, long-distance networking between computers was first accomplished in a 1969 experiment by two research teams at UCLA and Stanford. - The Encyclopedia Britannica seems to think it was two Universities in the Golden State of California in 1959 but you know, the Encyclopedia Britannica is a bastion of American propaganda and all... If you are talking about Tim Berners-Lee, he was born in 1955 and was 14 years old at the time. :D
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@Paerigos Please name an innovation that anyone in any country, doesn't benefit from. No, I'm not kidding, I mean please name one innovation that you personally don't benefit from. Because if you think you don't benefit from it, I can guarantee that I can link you back to it, almost immediately.
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@ab-gu2nh Garrett Morgan was born in Paris, Kentucky, on March 4, 1877, and was the seventh of 11 children. He invented the three position traffic signal. Essentially, he invented modern city and road transit. Now this is not the same thing as inventing roads or highways. The internet is a road/highway. Just because Lee created a modern way of regulating the traffic on the internet, does not mean he invented the internet.
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@valerievankerckhove9325 Oh wow. I wasn't aware that trains in Europe were electricity powered. Thank you for letting me know, you are such a gem educating little old ignorant me. Perhaps you should look into how that electricity is generated. And if you decide to get really honest with yourself and dig a bit deeper, then your could delve into how wind, solar, and other renewable 'energy sources' are manufactured. P.S. I never once claimed that good urban planning is bad, nor did I claim that car driving suburbia is a better environmental choice, over densely urbanized areas such as Western Europe. Piece of advice because it is very rude: Please don't debate straw-men and pretend I'm the one making absurd arguments, just so you can feel vindicated for defending the correct opinion.
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@Paerigos Your preposition when speaking on behalf of 750 million people, is rather absurd and highly dishonest. The next time, your taxes pay for a soldier, a police officer, or a fireman, I want you to attempt to apply that lie when you ask a. your firemen to run into a burning building, b. your policemen risk their lives to protect the common good, and c. your soldiers to die for your liberty. Here is the ugly truth to counter your rose colored glasses, sacrifices are made for the common good on a daily basis. Human testing is required for medicine to progress (animals and software are not enough.) Coal gets burned, to keep Euros out of the hands of a madman, attempting to invade Ukraine. And so on... A quote to consider: "When you wear rose colored glasses, all red flags, just look like flags."
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@Paerigos Quaint but not a working solution. I detest corporate pollution and I absolutely hate defending any part of corporate excesses but you are so far removed from reality that I am forced into defending people I find quite detestable. Imagine that the run off from chemical pesticides and fertilizers is partially poisonous. It causes the cancer and death of 20,0000 people each year, it is a terrible tragedy. Now imagine that without the chemical pesticides and fertilizers the crop yields would be 50% of our current annual yields. And 4 billion people would starve to death in 12 months. A trade off is made within society by elected leaders who look at the big picture and nation states agree to some unpleasant situations, in order to avoid famine, plague, civil wars, etc... Your solutions are childish, something a 10 year might propose. So I'm curious, how old are you?
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@victorravn3075 Trash YouTube messaging was showing up with it as a reply to me. I sincerely apologize, reply was deleted.
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@valerievankerckhove9325 Last time I checked if the price of Natural Gas goes up it goes up for everyone. When oil rigs in Saudi Arabia blow up due to an Iranian shelling, the price of gasoline in Los Angeles and in Beijing goes up, in equal proportion, the very next day. So if Somali pirates start hitting the shipping lanes of Quatar's LNG plants, the cost of electricity in Belgium, China, and United States, will go up whether the natural gas comes from Norway, Russia, or North Dakota. (The price for the consumer may not, depending on how strong the welfare state is but the cost will go up) As for renewables, building solar power or wind turbines and importing them from China, America, or wherever, requires a lot of energy, a lot of fossil fuel energy in fact. When you buy solar panels from China, they aren't paying for fossil fuels to deliver them, YOU and YOUR countrymen are. When you build renewable energy at home, the natural resources from steel to rare earth minerals also must be shipped, again you and your countrymen are paying for these fossil fuels. Or are you one of those people who successfully self-deceived themselves into believing that Belgium is a country that doesn't use fossil fuels, its those polluting Liberians and Panamanians. I hate to break it to you but it doesn't matter if the ships are registered in Liberia, Panama, or anywhere else, if your country is using the ships and the shipping lanes, you are using the fossil fuels that power the cargo ships and the resource extraction that produces the natural resources your country buys. If you buy cotton clothes, tropical fruit, or anything exotic, you are also paying for their fossil fuel usage and thus contributing to the extraction of said fossil fuels, even if the official 'government propaganda' claims we are a 'clean country.'
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@valerievankerckhove9325 I didn't move the goalposts, you did. From your first reply to me, you went from talking about quality of life, to changing the subject to the 'personal price' of your personal transportation while completely ignoring the costs of said transportation. I'm simply pointing out that just because you paid $10 for a train ticket, doesn't mean that that's the cost. Then you moved the goalposts to how your country is using 'clean energy' and how your electricity is cleaner than mine while ignoring the energy cost required to obtain said 'clean energy.' I didn't move the goalposts, you did, several times in fact.
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@Paerigos Who cares? We're talking about quality of life and you are derailing the conversation, with a foreigner, to some weird tangent that has nothing to do with the conversation at hand. So who besides you, who cares?
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@Paerigos I am in favor of regulations on business and corporations. What does that have to do with quality of life, technological innovation, or banning corporations for the negative side effects of their products that everyone understands are there. Are you ready to pay 3 times more for your food, to stop farms using chemical pesticides and fertilizers? Are you ready to stop eating meat because you want to only eat grass fed cattle? Your country like most has 5 to 10 times more people than it did 200 years ago. And unless you somehow multiplied the land by the same amount, you have to produce and feed more with the same amount of land. Fewer available resources, require greater innovation, that's reality. Stopping innovation is a one way ticket towards self-destruction and to being occupied and/or exterminated by a society that doesn't hate science and innovation.
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