Comments by "Persona" (@ArawnOfAnnwn) on "De-industrialization was Hong Kong’s Biggest Mistake" video.

@Fiercesoulking Not in Germany it isn't. Or even all that much in France. The US should probably be more industrialized than it is at present, but it still makes a good deal. De-industralization is a problem for places like the UK, Spain, Italy, etc. (dunno about eastern Europe), not the west as a whole. And finance addiction seems to be a very Anglosphere orientation, the main exceptions only being the resource addicts Canada and Australia.
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@Kaif08610 Hong Kong doesn't have eminent domain laws? That's hardly a communist thing - nations all over the world have them, from France to Finland to Germany to Greece to US to UK to Canada to Chile to Netherlands to Norway to Italy to India to Spain to Sweden to Singapore to Poland to Portugal to Philippines to Panama...
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@Kaif08610 Fair enough.
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@smallfry8788 That theory was junk to begin with. Just look at Singapore. The Chinese sure did - they basically based their modern development strategy on it. And they certainly didn't see it as a risk for political change, cos it didn't there.
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@domtweed7323 British universities are mainly attractive still cos of the English language, but even that's spreading abroad now. They stopped being attractive for foreign students (apart from the elite handful) awhile ago due to rising tuition costs. Unless they pull down prices, that will continue. The US is fearing the same. International students aren't bottomless pits.
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