Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Explained with Dom" channel.

  1.  @stevenhenry5267  No. American sanctions didn't come until 3 years after Venezuela collapsed due to Chavez destroying whatever diversified economy it had with price controls, government over-regulation and nationalization and free money along with mismanagement of the oil industry. Never mind the oil prices hitting rock-bottom.
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  2. And where is the money going to come from to sustain that quality of life?
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  3.  @saiyedakhtar3931  And eventual collapse.
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  4. <But the new government came and cuts to social programs was hard felt by the largest portion of citizens. > Those social programs were a burden. The new government came and cut them to help get the country's finances in order after the previous government's fiscal mismanagement.
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  5. But that good life is not sustainable without economic productivity. Just ask Greece.
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  6. No. Living in the city is a privilege, not a right.
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  7. And the world's #1 financial center.
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  8. And foreign labor as the citizens are in no shape to work.
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  9.  @MehakSohi-jg3mx  But students and temporary residents are exempt from the ban.
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  10.  @AbuBased731  While they forget it was the US that made them after WW2.
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  11. But Brazil was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery.
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  12. It's like the rest of Latin America.
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  13. Affordable housing is not viable in the face of high real estate and building costs.
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  14.  @kevinl8440  No. South Africa is.
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  15. What landlords? The Singaporean government is the landlord.
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  16.  @ishredder4006  <Socialism and planned economy is the only way forward.> If you want stagnation and mediocrity, yeah!
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  17. Given how wasteful and corrupt government are.
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  18. The citizenship rules are fine. The wrong path Dubai took was being a welfare state rendering its own citizens useless.
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  19. But Argentina was done in by left-wing corruption.
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  20. And was a refuge for Nazis after WW2.
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  21. <they could pass legislation to regulate rentals.> And watch rental supply shrink with rising prices for whatever remains and a near 0% vacancy rate. <Most of the homeless people are Australians that have been forced out of the market due to greedy landlords.> No. They got driven out of the market by both locals and foreigners who are willing and able to pay the market rate. Housing especially in a desirable locale like Sydney is a privilege, not a right.
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  22. Ireland is a socialist basket-case. It's part of the PIIGS for a reason.
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  23. Actually, Singapore got kicked out of Malaysia.
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  24. No. And not even close.
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  25. Exactly.
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  26.  @pinyalevelup02  Maybe not, but it was ran into the ground by socialists. If anything, Argentina is yet another example of why socialists are not be trusted with power.
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  27. European countries didn't get developed in just the last 3 decades like Dubai and the UAE in general dependent on foreign labor to sustain themselves.
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  28.  @Theadalas  Not really. Europe has a relatively high suicide rate. And Russia has the 3rd highest in the world.
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  29.  @Ray.garcia7  Not nearly as bad as what France turned Africa into. Many of the poorest countries in the world are former French colonies.
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  30. Cities have always been expensive especially when prospering.
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  31. 11.4% = half?
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  32.  @sumwhatkeezy  Which is more or less the law of the land in some of the countries many immigrants fled from.
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  33. @Waka Waka The poster can't lose what he/she never had.
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  34. You know only 11.4% of the Americans are poor, right? Where you get this 99% from?
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  35. But Japan doesn't have mass immigration.
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  36. Apparently, Ireland is that bad.
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  37. And being at the mercy of other nations for goods and defense.
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  38. But socialism has proven it every single time in the 104-plus years it has been practiced often needing capitalism to make it look remotely viable. After all, socialism is nothing without other people's money.
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  39. The Gulf economy only works for locals. Not the foreign migrants who make up the majority of the population.
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  40. Not even close. North American cities' problems are zoning restrictions and lax immigration laws.
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  41. Especially France.
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  42. No. Argentina was destroyed by Argentina.
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  43. <Invest in your people the west does with welfare, free schooling, free transit and put a business last.> That is not how Canada became prosperous. Plus, the revenue to fund that welfare, free schooling, etc. was generated by the very same investment and companies you want put last. <Because in Canada, no business here is greater than people of canada, no one.> And presently, Canada is suffering due to it. Taxing "the rich" is not a sustainable way of keeping a country afloat.
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  44. Singapore has no more land to build.
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  45. Canada where the Prime Minister is elected just barely after the 1st ballot is cast. First-Past-The-Post for the win!
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  46. Yet many want out of communist China.
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  47. Can't blame the UK for everything.
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  48. No. Just the Western world.
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  49. Only for the poor to end up staying poor in the end.
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  50. A lot more than they'd like to admit.
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  51. The UK should have never handed Hong Kong over to China.
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  52.  @donfalcon1495  And being ruled by Britain.
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  53. Obedience and social order at all costs.
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  54. But California has way more than just the tech industry going for it.
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  55.  @shazam1522  While embracing Marxism.
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  56. Because people who are renting party and BS too much.
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  57. Machines will never be an adequate replacement for human labor as they can't do everything. <We need to get rid of the belief that we must work for 80% of each waking hour.> That's not going anywhere anytime soon as long as there is infrastructure to build and maintain.
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  58. Obedience >>>>>>>>>> all else.
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  59. Yet no one in Hong Kong is in any hurry to trade places with a mainland Chinese person.
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  60. And being a Nazi refuge.
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  61. Power and control.
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  62. Its people being those who want endless welfare, economic productivity, viability sustainability be damned!
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  63. All you have to do is visit any left-winger-ruled city.
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  64. America has nothing to do with Hong Kong. Take it up with the UK.
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  65. <If they had more aryan blood, they could compete with the great Anglo-Saxon race.> Like Argentinians?
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  66. Yet even Marx admitted in the end capitalism is still the better system.
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  67. Which is natural consequence of economic freedom. Better a society where some have more than others than a society where everyone except the government has nothing.
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  68. Neither do high taxes and bureaucracy.
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  69. <Americans,especially republicans and conservatives and right wing.....who loves to complain about or condemn taxes and "socialism" and "communist" like national policies and "government intervention" , needs to move their retooted asses and go live in Hong Kong a hyper capitalist society where they worship only capitalists and corporate overlords and every man is truly for themselves in a dystopian nightmare ,> They'll do that when Democrats, liberals and left-wingers who love to complain about the 1% not paying their "fair share" move their retooted asses to Venezuela or Cuba, hyper-socialist societies where their tax-the-rich policies are actually practiced with the government controlling just about every facet of the economy.
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  70. But they're too docile and obedient to do anything about it.
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  71. Along with ignorant and short-sighted voters.
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  72. Also spoiled and entitled thanks to the country's generous welfare system.
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  73. Who's they?
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  74. Like Brazil and El Salvador did.
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  75. Elected by an equally corrupt populace.
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  76. No more than perpetual stagnation and regression.
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  77. Better than state over people, a communist dystopia.
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  78. <Its particularly poor in SG because public housing is largely unavailable if you are not married.. > Especially if you're a man.
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  79. But Puerto Rico is poorer than even the poorest mainland US state that is Mississippi and 51% of the population live on social assistance.
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  80. In a city run by Democrats.
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  81.  @PirateLordRek  Yes they do. That corrupt government was elected by an ignorant populace who wanted endless welfare at all costs.
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  82. And populist governance.
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  83. Hong Kong doesn't have anymore land to build new housing on.
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  84. But Europeans are lazy and dependent on US and Chinese largesse.
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  85. Amazon is run by Democrats.
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  86. Because it's costly to transport let alone establish infrastructure outside the cities.
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  87. Take that up with the government. The wealth is going to the population. Namely those who managed to land a job with the big multinationals.
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  88.  @chopmoon  <not to mention very little countries around the world recognise Taiwan's sovereignty.> Because they're desperate for Chinese business.
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  89. Socialism bankrupted Sweden in the 70's which is why they had to tone it down since.
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  90. But your government did.
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  91. Well, housing is an investment if you really care about your family's future.
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  92.  @johnpaul9599  <he true we dont care about that part from history because we descent mostly from europeans> Namely Spaniards and Italians and inherited a lot of their bad habits.
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  93.  @SpiritTemple  Yet no one's risking death to live in Argentina.
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  94.  @ving8355  Except maybe China.
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  95.  @anitagorse9204  Portugal is not doing fine. And that's even with help from the rest of the EU.
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  96.  @marcoac-sx6lq  <Any colony from the anglo saxon world is poor except the US. > Canada, Australia and Singapore just entered the chat.
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  97. Hardly. Ireland is one of the original PIIGS.
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  98. No one except left-wing governments and businesses.
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  99. <it's not a society based on compassion, > Compassion is a foolish way to run a society unless you want to end up like Tunisia when the economy started struggling and the government was no longer able to provide for its citizens and the citizens turned on it.
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  100.  @nunyadambusiness3530  According to who exactly?
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  101. That's the price to pay for joining the EU.
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  102. And Peru.
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  103. And equally dumb people who vote for them.
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  104. They would have to do a major about-face on women's rights.
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  105. That only applies to Western Europe. Spain and Portugal declined well before WW2.
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  106. Australia is actually far worse. At least there more to America than the Northeast and the West Coast.
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  107. Australia has the 3rd-highest per capita homelessness rate among developed countries. The US doesn't crack the top 10.
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  108. Sweden has just entered the chat.
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  109.  @plugsocket9432  An inferiority complex.
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  110. But they're economically depressed dumps in the middle of nowhere.
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  111. Yes they can. That's what the Bible Belt and the Midwest are for. Not everyone can live in the Northeast or the West Coast.
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  112.  @alice_agogo  Yet that didn't stop South Korea's progress.
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  113.  @lovelymix8056  But South Korea put that money to good use unlike North Korea with the Soviet and Chinese aid.
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  114. Unless you're Switzerland.
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  115. Except Bermuda is a British territory. Ireland is an independent country.
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  116. The housing crisis is a Western thing.
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  117. <It also has to do with inner city apartments being empty and being owned by overseas owners who don't even rent them out. > Maybe because they're condemned awaiting renovation/demolition or they rather leave them empty as it's more cost-effective to do that than rent to a bad tenant they cannot legally evict in a timely manner due to the lopsided rental laws in favor of tenants.
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  118. Descendants of British criminals who got exiled.
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  119.  @danielmitchell940  Yet the left still actively practices it.
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  120. South America would still been a basket case. Bolivar was right about it being dysfunctional without a chance of amounting to much of significance.
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  121. <The government simply don't have the power to push through improvements to housing and medicine or stop rampant immigration> That was the price to pay for joining the EU.
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  122.  @lucasmachain  There's hardly much free-market or liberal about Africa. Plus, Africa is barely a generation removed from kleptocracy and socialism.
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  123. Do like Iceland.
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  124. Notice how all the poor countries are plagued with government meddling?
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  125. Get rid of the CCP first.
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  126. Portugal Ireland Italy Greece Spain.
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  127. Who told Argentina to bankrupt itself and run to the IMF for a bailout?
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  128. <which makes the apartments more expensive than they should be.> Not really. They're priced accordingly.
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  129.  @hewas_chewasky  LOL. Russia was never an economic powerhouse even at the best of times.
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  130. Yet the US is still a more desirable place to live than Ireland.
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  131. It was part of the PIIGS for a reason.
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  132. Real estate in HK is state-run.
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  133. Because those were nothing compared to what Juan Domingo Peron and his legacy did to Argentina.
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  134. Not just any kind of Europeans, but Italians and Nazi Germans.
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  135. Thanks to the government.
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  136.  @hewas_chewasky  Only after they toned it down and adopted free-market capitalist reforms?
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  137. LOL. Europe needs provide its own military protection and stop leeching off of the US.
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