Comments by "Andre Falksmen" (@andrefalksmen1264) on "The Origins of the Japanese Steel Industry" video.

  1. Japan is a primary example of the false narrative of "comparative advantage" used by the West to discourage developing countries from pursuing industrialization. While comparative advantage is real, the specific advantage may vary, is not innate and can be created. So, often Western Nations will tell third world Nations that they should focus on agriculture and forget about manufacturing because they have no capital, or past experience, or natural resource. Japan, just like taiwan, singapore, and South korea, broke into the critical area of heavy industry, steel manufacturing, even though all of the prerequisite materials had to be imported and remained cost-competitive by diligently building up their capital, knowledge-based, and efficiency. While, the West will often deny it today, at the start of the industrialization of the East Asian tigers, there were predictions of dismal failure. Today, We are told that Koreans are especially intelligent, but that was not their position in 1961 at the start of the heavy chemical and industrial drive. Park Chung he said if he had listened to the experts "he would have done nothing".
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  2. Lol, I highly doubt your Chinese or in china, and the Chinese have already won the steel game, so they don't care if you watch or not.
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