Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "6-Month Employee Break! No Westen Orders, Another Major Factory in China Has Suspended Operations" video.

  1. WOW! A very thought-provoking video. Well done! One more thought on communism in China, and generally. Marx assumed that the revolution would be driven by the urban, industrial proletariat. He assumed that it would start in countries like Germany, the UK and the US. Instead, it started in countries that were industrially underdeveloped with large peasant populations. Specifically, Russia and China. This is what allowed them to control the populations. They were used to being controlled. Of course, Marx's reasoning was all wrong. The people of Russia and China were offered free stuff, taken from the middle and upper classes. They were not really ideological. In the countries where Marx expected the revolution the people aspired to create wealth. Many of the wealthy in the US these days, and historically, did not come from highly privileged backgrounds. Even the average factory worker has it fairly good. Frankly, having traveled a bit, I have concluded (and I am not alone in this) that our lower classes would be considered middle class in most of the world.
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  2. The labor issue in India is qualitatively no different than the labor situation in China. Many of the workers in the assembly jobs for products like iPhones are relatively poorly educated villagers. Have you seen the videos and pictures of iPhone, and similar, production facilities? Rows and rows of identical workstations where people are manually assembling the product. These are not that difficult to move. I recall seeing videos, perhaps on this channel, of Foxconn workers leaving one of their facilities during a COVID scare. People forced their way out of the facility. They were living in dormitories and were concerned about an outbreak. They either hitched rides or, in some cases, walked back to their villages. It was reported that many of these villages were two days walk away. The bulk of the manufacturing jobs in China are low tech, as in low automation. in an iPhone, for example, the actual proportion of the cost of assembly is somewhere around 5-10%. Many of the highest cost components come from outside of China.
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  3. Whoa! What is with the map at about 14:53? It labels Vietnam as French Indochina. A bit out of date, don't you think?
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  4.  @EzraMerr  Well put.
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  5. The Cultural Revolution? Bring back the Cultural Revolution! Long live the Cultural Revolution! Go, Xi, go! One of the political reasons for opening up to China was to affect the system there by bringing in capitalism. The hope was that this would make China more democratic over time. A China that followed the rule of law, respected private property, including intellectual property rights, could have been a huge success and a great partner in the world. But, alas, China was, and is, a communist country. All communist countries become oligarchies and then morph into aristocracies. All communist countries also become institutionally corrupt. As for fighting China, the west only needs to do very little. Just disrupting trade is enough. China imports most of its energy and other raw materials. Its farmland is very poor, requiring about five times as much in inputs (fertilizer, pesticides, etc.) as land in the US or Europe. As Peter Zeihan likes to say, China deindustrializes in a matter of months and begins to experience mass starvation within a year. Look at the sanctions on Russia. They are devastating that country. The full sanctions have only been put in place gradually over the last two years. And Russia has lots of raw materials and grows lots of food. No one wants to invade China, except perhaps Russia. Well, not even Russia these days. What is that big military for? It is China that is threatening to invade other countries, and not just Taiwan.
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  6.  @willpugh-calotte2199  Now, wouldn't that be a hoot. A return to the good old days.
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