Comments by "Matthew Nirenberg" (@matthewnirenberg) on "The World’s Wealthiest Countries in 2036" video.

Those estimates made me laugh so hard I almost fell off my chair. Given everything they've done since 2020 including imprisoning all citizens in the country (in reality only those 50+ were able to leave, everyone else wasn't) with their travel ban, there isn't much left. Most small and medium businesses are gone, investors are staying well away and the likelihood of that changing in the next 10yrs is minimal at best due to the ever increasing over-regulation of literally everything in the country. Yet every other night the govt and the news keep saying how the economy is booming even though its not (maybe they're trying to con people into thinking its better than it actually is), cost of living is sky rocketing whilst wages are a decade behind.
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Australia simply relies on taxing the living hell out of its citizens and residents (perfect example are the proposed changes to the tax laws that Andrew has talked about). If that doesn't generate enough money for the govt, they install more speed cameras and lower speed limits to generate revenue from infringements (its literally in the official budgets). Given the majority of people in Australia either don't work or receive more in welfare than they pay in taxes, only a small group (about 17-20%) of people are paying the bulk of the taxes for the rest. Since 2020, most small and medium businesses have shut down, many more will soon follow as the costs of doing business continue to sky rocket (primarily food costs) as farmers quit farming due to their costs increasing. Investors are staying away from Australia due to the high taxes and the fact that Australia is one of the most over-regulated countries in the world - everything (no matter how small, simple or easy) needs licences, permits, registration, annual training, etc. unlike the rest of the world. One thing I have found out first hand is that Australia only wants giant multinational corporations, if you're not one, no amount of genuine qualifications, experience, innovations or success will get you anywhere in Australia. You'll only get told that you're not experienced, not qualified or not suitable to do anything, but they'll let multinationals do whatever they like, whenever they like.
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@rayngmelb Why are you trying to change the topic to China? No one is discussing China.
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@pwslattery Nuclear energy and everything related to it is banned in all of Australia thanks to a previous government pandering to The Greens. There is only 1 "research reactor" that is exempt from the ban but the Greens have been trying to get it shutdown in recent years claiming that nuclear energy is incompatible with the climate and environment. Storing waste other than Australian nuclear waste from before the ban, isn't ever going to happen as long as The Greens are in power and as long as people still think that modern storage methods and reactors are as dangerous as Chernobyl. A lot of waste is currently being stored in the exclusion zone near Chernobyl in a newly built facility. People feel negatively about the economy because the governments in Australia love wasting and spending money with the solution of "increase taxes" when they need more money. The Australian economy has been going downhill for a long time and is only going to continue to do so in the foreseeable future.
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@ganiburn Apologies in advance, this comment will be a long one. The problem is they don't give a shit. Australian politics is so messed up that politicians only care about getting re-elected and consolidating their own power whilst taking rights, freedoms and autonomy away from the people. They don't care what things will be like in 5 or 10 years time. Everything can be blamed on the opposition if its something like a law they're trying to pass. If its failing infrastructure, simply blame the other side of politics who haven't been in power for the last 15-20yrs in most states or 5-10yrs federally. Any other problem can simply be blamed on the people as the country and people are all divided over race, wealth, jobs, religion, etc. - there is no unity in Australia. The last time the lefty govt in Australia (Labor) were running short on welfare money, the publicly demonised mining companies and the "rich" (I used quotes because to the politicians and those on welfare, the "rich" is anyone with an annual income before tax greater than $50,000 which is the majority of people earning wages) and they put taxes up. Problem solved. Politicians still push this "climate" garbage on us to keep people divided and under their control by means of their "climate laws" and "going green". The Vostok Ice Cores show that there isn't a climate crisis, which is exactly why they've been ignored for the last 20-25 years (they don't support the current narrative of the government). Even if hypothetically there was a climate crisis, the current "solutions" are to basically starve 2/3's of the worlds population to death, prohibit all travel by the masses (both locally and internationally), have no fuels or electricity (the newest carbon footprint methods used by banks and the WEF include use of "green energy" at the same impact as use of "non-green energy"). If they cared about resources (people are also resources) why would they have such horrific solutions? They have such solutions because we are the carbon they want to reduce and I'm 100% certain that they'll seize all our assets once we're gone, for themselves which is easy are they're corporations and banks. In Australia corporations and banks that are creditors have extreme powers to be "financially made whole" by seizing assets from those who can't pay, such powers are technically more powerful than the governments "eminent domain" powers. So as you can see, the resources don't matter at all to them, they only care about taking absolute ownership and control of everything they can whilst getting rid of the masses. This is why its essential to be a Nomad Capitalist and go where you're treated best so you can be in a part of the world where this horrific stuff isn't happening (i.e. places that aren't CANZUK or CUNA).
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@kuyaatnic9257 first the utilities and infrastructure would first need to be completely rebuilt as the current infrastructure is failing the current population. Even if that happened Australia doesn't need an ever increasing population, it needs less over regulation so that people can start businesses and be competitive, wages to catch up to cost of living and for Australian businesses to be competitive. The ever increasing population over the last 20yrs has primarily resulted in taxes going through the roof as it's resulted in heaps more people on govt assistance as the regulatory environment in Australia is very anti-business unless you're a multinational corporation. Combine that with wages stuck stupidly low and the cost of living going nuts, no sane person would be moving to Australia any time soon.
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