Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "One Ship Inspection Could Unravel Global Maritime Shipping || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. Yeah! End of the globalized system as we know it now. Not soon enough for my liking. I either saw in an interview or read in one of Peter's books (or both) something that has stuck with me and which I think is the crux of the matter. The situation has to do with the end of the Cold War. President George H. W. Bush wanted to have the conversation about what comes next, after the bipolar world order went away due to the collapse of the Soviet Union. As Peter points out, he was the most qualified president in history to have that conversation. He was voted out of office. The American electorate really wasn't much different from those of the rest of the world. They just wanted the peace dividend and wanted to stop thinking about all that geopolitics stuff. As Peter would say "Welll.." On a personal note, I voted for Bush. I was born in Washington, DC, worked in the aerospace and defense industry and was generally very attuned to geopolitical issues. I knew or had relatives in the diplomatic corps and politics, so I am not the typical voter. Once, we took a straw poll of the people in the group I was working with, and the result was a tie between Bush and Perot with Clinton getting one vote (out of 13). There is another reason I don't like the globalization, and it has to do with manufacturing and engineering. In the 1980s and early 1990s the main intellectual trend in those fields was design for manufacturing and increased quality. GM even had a concept for their manufacturing facilities worldwide. Rather than shipping stuff all over their suppliers would build their factories attached to the main assembly plant. Remember, this was also the era JIT. The quality issue was key in the 1970s which was a disastrous decade for many manufacturing sectors and the new movement was a response. Then, with the lure of cheap labor and large markets the MBAs took over and quality suffered. I could go on and on about that, but I will restrain myself.
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