Comments by "HomerOJSimpson" (@Homer-OJ-Simpson) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

  1. OMG, do more videos like this! Most farming videos are about the specifics of certain farming tasks but this was a great overview on the economics and logistics.
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  2. For the most part, all the other parties think the same. China does not have good intentions with that region and they have shown they will muscle out everybody given the chance.
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  3. As someone that works in manufacturing, I can say the tariffs don't 'help' the US bring jobs back but they did help us start looking at other options than China. It's a long process though. Our company itself was assembly products that were getting 25% tariffs in China yet we saw little increase in sales though for the parts we used, we did begin to buy more from Vietnam and India. Overall, China was just slowly losing out to Vietnam, India and especially Mexico. I had a another job a company making similar products and they eventually ditched their small China factory and built one in Mexico. These things take years though. Even for an OEM to just to replace an existing supplier in China with one from another country, you need to order samples (can take weeks or months for delivery), test it (can take many months or even over a year), possibly re-sample many times until you get it right, then you need your customer to then test your product that has the new component and that could take months. Overall, a switch to a new supplier generally took us between 10-24 months to just get the new component approved depending no how important the part is to the function of the product. Usually the first order will have some 8-16 week delivery lead time so now you're looking at 12-28 months between placing first sample to getting first production delivery.
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  4. This is great stuff. I don’t believe I’ve seen a video that really discusses the economics of YouTube creators as in depth as this.
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  5. I know someone that works for paypal. They pay more in Mexico than India and Philippines for the same job at the same 'level'. Maybe it varies by industy?
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  6. The fact that everyone in that region fears what China is doing and might do with the South China Sea tells you a lot about China's claims & actions. Taiwan & Japan have arguments over islands & waters but they don't fear the other side will launch some sort of war over it. But CHINA....they are showing intent to actually use force to take it all. And their claims are massive areas. Sure Taiwan, also has similar claims but it's mostly just to keep the Chinese claims and prevent China from just easiliy taking all the waters & islands.
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  7. 2:13 is this a mistake? 140,000 enter manhattan by car but so my somehow 1 million enter manhattan south of 60th by automobile? Doors that mean 860,000+ enter by bus or did 140k mean to refer to a different transportation method?
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  8. Faster growing economies will always have increasing inequality. That's how you basically have to grow. That doesn't mean the government shouldn't address those concerns but just that increased inequality is expected. >and the government in Nuevo Leon has failed to address the issues of housing, transportation and enviromental concerns for the local populatio That seems reasonable things to be concerned about or want addressed. One thing that holds back Latin America a lot are policies that are just basically giving money away rather than trying to bring i more foreign investment and keeping government spending to the essentials that help people work -- transportation/infrastructure, affordable housing, education. East and South East Asia that have seen a lot of growth basically kept welfare minimal but spend heavily on housing, education, and transportation/infrastructure.
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  9. I’m progressive but I respect Utah. They (relatively speaking) hold to lessons of their bible instead of creating an ideologically conservative identification like most red states. Most or all red states didn’t support gay marriage in 2015 including Utah but Utah’s view (generally speaking) is not support for it doesn’t mean they support discrimination against it.
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  10. I worked for an electro - mechanical company and we sold a lot of electronics to farm equipment manufacturers. This was 2015-2020. I was surprised how advanced farming equipment had become. The use of gps, automated driving, apps, etc really made me realize farm equipment manufacturers were becoming (hybrid) tech companies
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  11.  @zorod5475 liberal highly religious is what Utahans would be described as. More in line with the current Vatican pope than with the current religious right of the US
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  12. In the US for sure. In poorer countries, farming is mostly subsistence farming and the decisions are far less complicated.
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  13.  @TheAmericanDeagle  There probably isn't a better place in Mexico than Monterrey for the average Mexican, financially speaking
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  14. Not sure if I’m confusing Wendover (Sam) for someone else but I think he did an episode on the logistics of tours including the arena. If he didn’t, it would be great if he did and your input would be appreciated! Sam and his team have to start somewhere on the research so getting in contact with someone in that business is a great start!
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  15.  @The_budgetking  They also claim lots of Bhutan's land and started building settlements & military posts Bhutan's land in the north. The whole claim on the north is likely to get Bhutan to give up land on the west....which would be a strategic military position against India.
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  16.  @henli-rw5dw  But the $12,500 is for a super cheap EV that doesn't fit all the regulations of most or all western countries. BTW, the lowest cost EV in the US is actually $29k and that doesn't include any government rebates.
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  17.  @ricardomarin487  Worth ethic is a big factor. You need people to work hard, especially when they country is still relatively poor. There many places for cheap labor around the world but there has to be many things working for it in order to succeed. Yes, cheap labor and trade benefits are a big part but also work ethic and sound government policy. India is having one problem from 'work ethic', though some might call it cultural. Something like 20% of women are in the workforce and if that doesn't improve, they will be limited in their growth.
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  18.  @chemicalfrankie1030  The bad part of being the reserve currency is the high price of the dollar with makes exports more expensive -- thus harder to export. But the "export inflation" is basically saying it allows the US to carry more debt. So it's a trade-off....reduction in exports but ability to have higher debt. They are probably a wash but the deciding point would be the power it gives the US with sanctions.
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  19.  @LENZ5369  Actually the video mostly agrees that safaris are a net benefit to conservation and to the people. It was a little more mixed on the trophy hunting.
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  20.  @TriStarIII  Well, to be fair to OP, the specific things he mentions should be addressed by the government. He didn't mention welfare. LATAM has problems because they often just want to give money away.
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  21.  @luisangulo9593 I was in Peru and I never noticed a Chinese car. I wasn’t looking specifically for them but never noticed it. Certainly not any Uber I took.
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  22.  @arthuralford ​​⁠I didn’t see much Manindra when I was selling products into the USA Ag market but did see Kabota. They seemed to be liked by those that had it
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  23. Fun fact, leaded gas was not completely phased out of Australia until 2002, serval years after the mass shooting and gun control discussed in this video. Also, you should notice the much larger drop in murders by guns. It’s a proven fact guns are more deadly than knives so considering gun murders dropped far more as a % than overall murders, it suggests the gun control was a major contributor to the overall drop in murders.
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  24.  @Steve-bc2cl Literally my point. yea, cost of living is cheaper in Philippines and India which is why PayPal pays less. Thus OP statement doesn’t jive unless it’s specific to that industry. Which could make sense since India and Phillipines with their high rate of English speakers have built customer service industries up which would make it more expensive
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  25.  @austinhernandez2716 everything you said was wrong and proves people blindly like dvmb comments. 1. U took the click bait title too literal. The advancements discussed in the video that u did not watch (since u posted only a few minutes after video was released) have been a net positive to the agriculture. That doesn’t mean everything has been perfect but the click bait title is just that..click bait 2. It’s capitalism why output in farming has grown tremendously and the output from farms is several magnitudes more than it was 200 years ago 3. Farming is very regulated and government involved. So many subsidies on insurance and for specific crops. Lots and lots of environmental regulations as well
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  26. Lots of flaws in this one, at least towards the end. At the end it mentions how the global trade has made income inequality worse and seemed to suggest (by adding no further context) that things are getting worse. And yet, global extreme poverty fell form 45% in 1980 to 10% today. We’ve also seen many former poor countries move into solid middle income and even upper income. Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, HK Singapore, etc were Poor 50 years ago and now wealthy nations. We have many examples of dirt poor counties moving Into solid middle income like china, chile, Panama, and many more
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  27. That's what competition is for -- they can't extort too many passengers or they lose business.
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  28. Tanzania is that authoritarian? I didn't know.
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  29.  @nSnowCrow  CGP Grey use to put out videos on more regular basis -- maybe every 3-4 weeks. Back then it may have made sense. But in recent years he goes months without a true video produced and uploaded so he doesn't fit Nebula business model.
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  30. I watch a history channel it doesn’t mean I’m willing to spend on history books or material. I watch a finance video, like you said I’m likely looking to do something with money. Perhaps another similar category is travel channels — people watching those are likely looking to spend on travel. I come to wendover or Polymatter or other similar videos just to be educated so It doesn’t indicate I’m interested in buying anything.
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  31. Explain? Because looking at the map, there is no reason to believe China would have a good claim to those islands.
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  32. NYT The Daily podcast has an interesting episode on this but it's mostly focused on the players/PGA. I love that I now get to see more from Saudi Arabia sides and their goals. The whole WWE thing, especially blocking the flight of wrestlers from leaving, was interesting part I had never heard of.
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  33.  @rcbrascan  “when it comes to China…” lol, wendover is harsher in USA than anyone but I bet your .50 RMB that you never complain about that. And China only has a handful of new nuclear plants in works which will take years to build. It needs a lot more nuclear plants.
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  34. @Zaydan Alfariz Indonesia inequality or GINI is 37.3. It was 33 in 2005. It was 28.6 in 2000. So it actually rose, though it did begin to see small decrease since about 2015. China's inequality has risen. Mexico's GINI has slowly declined. They generally tend to increase early on and then stabilize or slow decline when they hit middle income.
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  35.  @Sam42069  Yes, you can't fully go all in on just environmental concerns -- economic and security are very important as well.
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  36.  @NeostormXLMAX  "china is switching out of the manufacturing focus," And struggling to do so! China is now expected to have an annual GDP growth of around 3% for the next 20 years. When Taiwan, South Korea and Japan were at the same GDP per capita that China is today, they had approximately 7% GDP growth for the next 20-30 years! That's a massive failure when compared to it's east Asian counterparts. >just like how the united states was a massive manufacturing country in the 1930s till 50s, Except the US was already upper income country at that point. China is not close to even it's East Asian counterparts who have 4x higher GDP per capita.
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  37. Who else here works for a company that uses Just In Time?
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  38. SomeonefromBeijing (below me) works for Beijing. Japan has had the navy and power to have taken all those claims but they wanted to play by the rules. Taiwan hasn’t had a strong navy while Japan has had one of the stronger but Japan didn’t bully Taiwan or weak Mao China to get those waters or islands
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  39. ​ @dinte215  China is mostly entirely domestic market, ranked 12th in export value. Mexico is mostly an exporter of automobiles. By value in billions of USD in 2021: 1. Germany 139.1 2. Japan 85.6 3. USA 54.7 4. South Korea 44.3 12. China 22.4 By number in millions: 1. Japan 3.0 2. Germany 2.4 3. South Korea 2.0 4. China 1.6 5. USA 0.97
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  40.  @shamusduffey4873 same. Three times actually and I couldn’t make sense of it. He did change the term from Cars to automobile and that leave buses but that wouldn’t make sense.
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  41.  @aaamint9981  China paying for likes. Funny thing is I just saw the number of likes just go from over 4k to 3.7k so something fishy is going on. EDIT: and now 3.3k. I think YT realized some machine was liking the same comment....now it's 3.0k
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  42.  @madhavyu  even bigger fascination on BRICKS
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  43. That’s the sounds of the NSA listening to your device
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  44.  @J_X999  How is Xi lockdown for 3yrs where many companies either left or are in the process of moving some operations out of China good? How is taking too long to address the single child policy good? How is battling with their major trading partners good?
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  45.  @neonbunnies9596  easy prey but also those consumers are LITERALLY looking for such products and services.
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  46.  @kindlin  As an artcle explains: "Mexico’s President Revamps Welfare, Handing Out Cash to Millions. Overhaul leaves some of the poorest households with limited healthcare access and reduced aid for fighting childhood malnutrition. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has drastically revamped Mexico’s welfare system—distributing more money to more people. But development experts say the new programs overlook some of the country’s neediest families.". This is what I meant that it's often used to buy votes rather than what's best policy.
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  47.  @tren133  Yes, the are seeing the biggest increase in exports to Russia. On EV's, they are exporting Tesla as well which account for 40% of the EV export in 2022. I cannot find any data on value of exports for 2022 or 2023 YTD
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  48.  @tren133  Regarding subsidies China gives Tesla: - The subsidy accounted for around 3% to 6% of the cost of the best-selling electric vehicles in China last year, a Reuters analysis found. - The subsidy, paid to the automaker at the point of purchase, began in 2009 and was scaled back over time. It paid out nearly $15 billion to encourage EV purchases through 2021, according to an estimate by China Merchants Bank International. Another article: - Tesla may be operating a wholly-owned factory in China, but the company became the most heavily subsidized electric vehicle maker in the country in 2020 nonetheless. Last year, Tesla China received CNY 2.1 billion ($325 million) in government subsidies for new energy vehicles, the highest amount granted to a carmaker in the country. - Following right behind Tesla was BYD, which was the second most-subsidized electric vehicle maker in China last year. BYD received CNY 2 billion worth of subsidies for selling 117,000 qualified EVs in 2020. Overall, China granted subsidies for 584,900 new energy vehicles last year, a 12-fold increase from 2016. During this period, sales of electric cars in China increased 27 times to 13.7 million units.
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  49.  @DevotedpupaVODs  this is why people hate making any videos — people like you get over pedantic Or make your own assumptions just to get angry about anything. The video is about Australian gun culture and gun regulations history, not a history of all of Australia.
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  50. In addition, just to see if you're in Beijing, do you think the conc camps in Xinjiang are major problem or do you agree with them?
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  51. This is such a great video. I've always wondered how this whole operation works but just assumed it was secret.
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  52. 22 minutes of highway so 20 miles away. But yeah, it's not super bad. My family in the suburbs drive 10-12 min each way. I walk 15 min to a grocery store and sometimes even drive 20 min (in a city) one way to my favorite grocery store. But that 20min is 5-6 miles.
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  53.  @bandidosantiago231  China paying for likes. Funny thing is I just saw the number of likes just go from over 4k to 3.7k so something fishy is going on. EDIT: and now 3.3k. I think YT realized some machine was liking the same comment. .now it's 3.0k
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  54.  @dennohnjogu4028  Funny but not really accurate. Or is Jack Grealish the best of his era? Otherwise, terrible analogy. Byzantine was the longest stable currency but in an era with far less trade and far less currency in circulation. US is the big currency of the past 50 years in the era of globalized trade.
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  55.  @theloopholeisntaahol  Or bat sh1t. It's also not as lucrative as it once was now they there are other sources of fertilizer at lower costs.
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  56.  @joaocerceau5810  ", you are only required as low cost labour force, fundamentally, there is no incentive to improve your wages after a certain threshold" and yet South Korea, Taiwan, Japan all became wealthy through this process. And China went from poorest country to middle income. Are your opinions really that void of reality? It's a process every country must take to go from poor to upper income. In that process, the country earns money which it can then invest in it's people and with sound policy can some day reach upper income.
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  57.  @whatkenyan7684  I loved the safaris in Kenya. I went to the Masai Mari and the safari right there near Nairobi. Did 3 days in Daini Beach. The safaris were great but I ended up getting sever food/water poisoning (spend half a day in the ER) and picked up bed bugs while in Diani Beach. Plus my significant other got some severe eye infection in the first 2 days we were there. A trip with so many ups and downs.
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  58.  @NeostormXLMAX  Also, "its delusional to think that china is just going to stay the same as it was in the 80s" is a nice strawman. It suggest that there aren't consequences for China's actions. The chip sanction is indeed hurting China's economy. Countries looking to decouple or de-emphasize trade with China also have an impact. China's April manufacturing data show a contraction of manufacturing compared to March.
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  59.  @jaspergood2091  I feel like China's issue is much worse as 30% of China's GDP relied on home construction AND 70% of Chinese people's wealth is in the homes.
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  60.  @tren133  "There is a reason the single Tesla factory in China produces almost as many cars as their other three factories put together.". There are more than 3 factories and Maybe they didn't inform you in China but in 2022, Telsa built a bigger plant in Texas. It's Gigafactory Texas. And Tesla procudes over 2 million vehicles a year and 0.75 million are made in China so that's approximately 30-35%. >Only last year did the US try to enact laws such as the IRA to try to stimulate a EV supply chain inside the US in order to catch up But Telsa builds more inside of the US than in China. And what you explain here about enacting laws is exactly what China has been doing for decades, including giving Tesla generous tax benefits.
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  61. As for your concerns with the smaller cities, that’s where you can offer subsidies to entice rail companies to go there
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  62. “Don’t let perfection be the enemy of good” is probably the biggest issue with addressing homelessness in California. They are to busy trying to build $16,000 to $130,000 little home shelters rather than make more shelter space. They want to treat the homeless too well that they do not do much to help them. The video was great overall too. Really discussed all the issues
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  63. Even Wendover (Sam) usually does the 'rich guy bad' or "US sucks, Europe is the best". This video was far more nuance than I expected from Sam though lately I've seen him tone down his biases, at least on this channel (half as interesting is a different story). Don't get me wrong, it often is 'rich guy bad' but not always or it's more nuanced than that. I still think the video was a little harsh on the luxury safaris -- that seems to be the best at helping conservation efforts and helping the locals. It's a lot of money with fewer people needed in the parks to achieve the same revenue.
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  64.  @tibor29  It actually had 4.4k when I first saw it. It's been dropping and now down to 2.9k. I was also engaged in a conversation with 4 or 5 clearly .50 cent types who all were trying to praise China and say that China is just choosing to to do less manufacturing.
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  65.  @mattipoika3643  corporatism and capitalism are equal if socialism = dictatorship and failed economies.
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  66. China's growth is shrinking fast and much faster than expected. US GDP Growth has surpassed China. Fewer and fewer economist now believe China's GDP will surpass US and that's using the 'official' (inflated) GDP from China. China's annual GDP growth is now roughly half of what Japan, Taiwan, South Korea were when they were at the same GDP per capita as China.
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  67.  @kindlin  Yes, some level of welfare is needed but Latin America is known for giving too much when they can't afford it or too much that it drives away business. South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, Vietnam all have had great growth (the first 3 moved up to upper income) with only modest welfare to start which allowed the conditions to attract foreign investments. There's a reason Venezuela has been badly run -- they just give out money rather than actually investing it. I did after all mention that building more affordable housing, transportation/infrastructure, and education are key.
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  68.  @TimothyCHenderson  "Measuring China's GDP per capita is tricky though ", yes, because they have been known to exaggerate it. In 2007, the then next in line to be leader (Xi would beat him though) said China's GDP numbers are man made and basically just goals. It's actually not hard to measure GDP per capita, it's just that China doesn't want to properly measure it for political reasons. US has perhaps the most reliable GDP numbers and it's the 3rd most populated country. Several studies have also shown that China is likely exaggerating their GDP number by at least 1%pt a year and it's true GDP is anywhere from 40% to 80% of what's officially reported.
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  69.  @tren133  I diidn't say it was over a million BUT " Chinese brands account for almost a third of Russia's car market," up from 9% on Jan 2022. Furthermore " sales should reach around 600,000 for this year (2022) overall.". So that's over 500,000 increase in sales to Russia alone in 2022.
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  70. People complaining about liberalization of rail after watching a that demonstrated quiet well that liberalization has lead to great growth in rail and even more in air transit.
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  71. I went to a safari in 2019. It was an amazing experience and I feel confident that they are a positive not only for animals but the people. We spent lots of money on the trip and it's still cheap compared to the lower luxury. The safari itself I spent nearly $1000 for 2 people for 4 days or so and nearly $2,000 for 9-10 days total in Kenya including flights. That included the hotel, the driver and vehicle to get us from Nairobi to the safari, the guide (also the driver), and spending buying things from the local maasai people. Downside was I get serious food or water poisoning. Now, the trophy hunting is something I'm not sure about. It incentivizes potential bad behavior in a system that can be corrupted. I understand it raises money and it's supposed to be hunting animals that are no longer fit to breed but the incentives are a potential problem. We need more research to really understand it.
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  72. Boston avg home still much bigger and the income:rent ratio is still more favorable in BOS. But there are some similarities.
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  73.  @dontworry6672  100% Chinese bot.China paying for likes. Funny thing is I just saw the number of likes just go from over 4k to 3.7k so something fishy is going on. EDIT: and now 3.3k. I think YT realized some machine was liking the same comment. .now it's 3.0k
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  74.  @austinhernandez2716 ​​⁠nothin I said negates what you said yet I stated facts that completely contradict ur statements? “Unregulated” when farming is highly regulated. “Capitalism ruined farming” when capitalism is the driving force that allowed people to cultivate far more crops per unit of land and at much lower unit costs that the % of people starving today is a tiny fraction vs 200 years ago
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  75.  @DarkHarlequin  No, that's Sam from Half as Interesting. Totally different person than Sam from Wendover. You can tell because Sam from HAI speaks with a comedic tone but this Same speaks more serious.
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  76.  @afocus  China is mostly entirely domestic market, ranking 12th in export value. Mexico is a huge exporter of automobiles. By value in billions of USD in 2021: 1. Germany 139.1 2. Japan 85.6 3. USA 54.7 4. South Korea 44.3 5. Mexico 39.9 12. China 22.4 By number in millions: 1. Japan 3.0 2. Germany 2.4 3. South Korea 2.0 4. China 1.6 5. USA 0.97
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  77.  @Kun..07  "doesn’t matter whether it’s domestic or export oriented." it kind of does for THIS conversation we are having. But China until 2021 or so was building almost entirely dirt cheap vehicles that sell for little. "Without economies of scale, companies will not open plants. " You do understand that factories are built all over the world for vehicles? And that because of the price of shipping vehicles is expensive, manufacturing tends to be close to the market. That's why Mexico is a big car producer -- literally the point of this video. That's why Japanese companies have many factories in north America. That's why the vast majority of China's build is for domestic market and it's exports are Russia next door and Australia.
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  78.  @Kun..07  with 10% of the population, of course they can never match China in total numbers. They don’t have the number of workers to do that. But as per capita, they certainly can. Wikipedia has per capita production of automobiles and last year data is 2020. Mexico was 1.5x higher than China. US almost 2x higher.
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  79.  @AndreVictorGoncalves  "Only Tesla making cars in the USA right now" is the lowestIQ post I've seen. Tesla only makes a small fraction of the cars produced in the US. The auto industry is very strong in the US but some of it has moved to Mexico.
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  80.  @mystery19933  What exploitations? You want Kenyan's to stay poor forever?
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  81.  @mystery19933  Change my mind how? You're making an argument to not give poor people any business. How is that good?
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  82.  @J_X999  Beijing worker, what's your thoughts on Xinjiang?
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  83.  @AndreVictorGoncalves  You are questioning if it's better to be in China's position? Where 70% of people's wealth are in homes, 30% of GDP is tied to construction, and they have 1/5 the GDP per capita of the US?
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  84.  @AndreVictorGoncalves  My numbers are wrong? Then why not state what those numbers are? Hmmmm Second, China investing heavily on infrastructure is ALSO a problem now. They have built up a large amount of debt in more recent years building infrastructure that really isnt needed. Polymatter (a friend and 'coworker' of Wendover through Nebula) has many videos detailing China's issues with it's debt and infrastructure spending. Long story short and in the simplest way that I think a child (u) can understand, more infrastructure isn't always good because it gets harder and harder to find more projects that have return on investment making it worth it. Imagine two cities separated by river. One bridge bring GREAT return on investment (ROI). The 2nd bridge brings good ROI but less ROI. Each bridge will bring lower and lower ROI. If building that 100th bridge is or sure going to be far more costly than the ROI you get from that bridge Everything you stated and the tone of it suggest you work for Beijing.
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  85.  @J_X999  Praised Xi, denied the bad things happened (like lockdown dragging economy down and thus many firms sent parts of their operations out of China). REpeated See See P 'arguments'. What are your thoughts on Xinjiang?
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  86.  @tren133  "Tesla in no way produces 2 million cars a year. At least not yet. " You're right, that's the current capacity. China's plant is 1/3 the total capacity. Tesla opened up a HUGE facility in Texas and another factory in Germany in 2022. In addition, they are in the process of building Gigafactory Mexico for 2024 opening. That means a smaller and smaller share of of what Tesla produces will be from China. The point is you were very misleading with ". The EV value chain inside China is just that much more advanced than anywhere else in the world. Only last year did the US try to enact laws such as the IRA to try to stimulate a EV supply chain inside the US in order to catch up, " The US is part of NAFTA (or whatever the name is now) so a lot of it's productions are across 3 countries. Tesla already had the same capacity in the US as it did in China BEFORE the "IRA to try to stimulate a EV supply chain inside the US in order to catch up". And a big reason Tesla is building in China is because the tens of billions in subsidies they have received. >As for Russia, I'm certain Chinese exports now make up a higher percentage of the market, but that's due more to overall market crashing and western carmakers pulling out rather than Chinese carmakers sending more cars in That's kind of my point. That 600,000 of that increase from 2021 to 2022 was from sanctions on Russia. >Even if the Chinese now hold 50% markeshare inside Russia, that would still only account for a small 5-6% of their total export numbers. I dont have figures on the value by country but in 2022, Russia was about 20-25% of the automobile exports for China. 600k out of about 2.5 million or 3.1 million vehicles. (I'm seeing two different numbers). (edit: 2.5 million is passenger vehicles, 3.1 million include commercial vehicles).
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  87.  @cgmason7568  All the China accts show up whenever a story includes China.
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  88.  @StayActive98  I think I got what your saying, yes many people from China using VPN to come here or are living abroad. Many of them get 50 cents (RMB) per post but some just do it for the glory of China.
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  89.  @SelfProclaimedEmperor  RC Brascan sounds like a 50 centers (paid by CCP). Wendover is harsher on US than anyone but he complains about China? And the nuclear plants take years and they only have a few in the pipeline which probably will only cover some of the increase in power china will see
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  90. Not really...the problem in the west is mostly from LACK of buildings while in China is TOO many buildings that are empty
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  91.  @gadierv9821  Puerto Rico a colony? Maybe you’re ignorant on the topic but Puerto Rico has voted to stay a territory. Don’t be dumb and blame the US for the choice PR makes
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  92.  @gadierv9821  most people believe in independence and yet they don’t vote for it. That means most people don’t want independence. WTF is wrong with you?
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  93.  @thanksyoutubefortakingmyhandle  Out COld was 2001-- it's closer to the 80's than it is today by 11 years!
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  94. It hasn't been demolished but they are preparing to burst the bubble at some point.
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  95.  @flakgun153  Correct. The bubble isn't popped yet. They are propping it up to keep it from deflating but the bubble will have to pop.
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  96.  @ktbushway  China paying for likes. Funny thing is I just saw the number of likes just go from over 4k to 3.7k so something fishy is going on. EDIT: and now 3.3k. I think YT realized some machine was liking the same comment. .now it's 3.0k
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  97.  @austinhernandez2716  regulations preventing John Deere from forming a monopoly is NOT A FARMING ISSUE but is an issue that just about ALL INDUSTRIES deal with
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  98. “Hey Mr Greene Mr Green!” 👋 👋 “Did you pay $10 to get your post stickied?” “Yes, me from the past”
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  99. Where are the bricks?!?! - Chinese construction companies & Sam
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  100.  @TerrySitu  What does total GDP have to do with this argument? That just sounds so much like an irrelevant See See Pee talking pt
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  101. I’m a progressive that votes Democrat but I respect Utah a lot. Its policies / politics aren’t full of hypocrisy like most red states and seem to stick to the moral teachings of their bible. Even though in 2015 most didn’t support gay marriage due to religion, they are also highly against discrimination and passed protections for LGBTQ
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  102.  @RorysHappyHouse  nah, Half as Interesting is run by a different Sam…Sam of HAI. This is run by Sam of Wendover Productions 😉
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  103.  @LENZ5369  non hunting is still less than a third of the income. You say dozens of you spent $40K, according to the vid -avg single 'hunter is spending $15k-25K and high rollers closer to 60k." Where do you get that non hunting is less than 1/3 of their their income and hunting is 2/3 of their income? Is that for one specific park, all of Africa, one country? And yes, the hunters might pay $15k-$25k. But they aren't as many of them. I saw hundreds of people in the non hunting safaris each day. There certainly weren't dozens of hunting safaris each day.
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  104.  @AdPaxSinica  The video literally says 30% and that's what you find online as well. What % of GDP in China comes from construction?
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  105.  @J_X999  I can see your other comments here also defending China and praising Xi
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  106.  @J_X999  Beijing dude, why doesn't Andre provide the correct numbers? Or u? Hmmm...say something bad about Xi
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  107.  @interrobangings  correct except they officially dropped the Mongolia claim IIRC. And before dropping it officially, they effectively had stopped claiming it decades ago but it remained on paper as they claimed it for reasons you mentioned
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  108. @timetodestination,The major difference is that it actually did work on some countries back then so China joining WTO in order to improve human rights had some merits. But now we see autocrats not budging so PGA of course is finding an excuse. We already know from the past 20 years that autocrats no longer change. Now, it still works on occasion but it has to be countries/govts that require support from international organization. Saudi Arabia & Russia primarly export natural resources thus they can find buyers ANYWHERE in the world. And China has such a big domestic market that the international community also needs them.
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  109.  @SomeoneFromBeijing  Clearly u work for Beijing because Japan could have done it too. China only got a strong navy the past decade but Japan has had one of the strongest for a while. How many yuan u get?
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  110.  @StayActive98  What newsflash? I know all of that, what's the relevance?
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  111.  @psikeyhackr6914  The probem with your argument (without you clarifying which you didn't) is: 1. 70% of Chinese person's wealth is tied to real estate but in the US only little wealth if at all is in cars. 2. Few people are buying cars with expectations they will make a profit on selling it later. But large number of Chinese are buying homes and extra homes as investments 3. A car adds major utility for a person. They need it and use it. EXTRA homes in China are (mostly) purely for speculative reasons sitting empty or mostly empty and hoping to resell later at a profit.
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  112.  @psikeyhackr6914  Did you even read what I wrote? >The potential wealth got poured down a rat hole. You mean Chinese with housing? B/c as I said with automobiles, it's only a small part of earnings of Americans AND it has utility (helps people get to work, get to places...you know, earn and spend money). A home is FAR more expensive and Chinse bought extra homes not for utility but to make money (investment)...which is now crashing. Buy a car at $30k then sell it 5 years later for $15k, that's $15k it cost but that provided major utility. Buy a second home for $300k and then sell that for $200k a decade later. That's $100k lost all while providing no utility.
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  113. His voice sounds so different in this 2 year old video
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  114. Every topic about Russia or China has a load of trolls spreading misinformation in the comments. This one looks like it’s no different.
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  115. Danish Blox yes
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  116.  @walli6388  lots of decent size towns in the US have airports. They are heavily subsidized
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  117. Yes they are. Look at the comment "X1 Gen KaneshiroX". It's the top comment and it's basically "As an American, I prefer China grow more economically can Mexico". It had 4.4k likes. Then seconds later, 4k. Then 3.3k, then 3.0k then 2.9k seconds ago when I checked. Bought some likes and YT caught on.
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  118. US GDP Growth has surpassed China. Fewer and fewer economist now believe China's GDP will surpass US and that's using the 'official' (inflated) GDP from China. Most of the west reached upper income level so being stagnant at upper income is MUCH better than where China is headed. China's annual GDP growth is now roughly half of what Japan, Taiwan, South Korea were when they were at the same GDP per capita as China.
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  119.  @ileutur6863  "Those aren't biases, they're objective verifiable facts. " This is a flat out wrong way to argue. Facts can be bias in how you present them and what you ignore from facts. It's like a pro Putin person making a video of how Putin helped Russia in the 2000's and don't discuss any bad things that Putin did and exaggerate with suggestions about how much Putin's involvement was in the economy bouncing back -- all while ignoring that oil prices were at historical lows in the 90's and surged in the 2000's. A video with "objective verifiable facts" can have biases and not tell the whole story.
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  120. Hey, it's the SEE SEE PEE account! How are you X1 Gen KaneshiroX? Buying up the likes for your comment?
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  121.  @dianapennepacker6854  Brazil has a combination of cheap labor and decently educated and nice cities along with good natural resources. They really should be doing far better. Philippines is probably going to be more service sector -- since a lot of them speak English, they are often involved in customer service, accounting, etc.
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  122.  @ZalamaTheDragonGod  technology isn’t heavily influenced by capitalism yet it was capitalism that has driven it the most. Okay comrade. That’s why Soviet cars, computers, video games, etc were the most popular in the world
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  123. Florida only ranked 31 out of 50 states in terms of arable land and Florida is a big state. Most of the souther 1/3 of Florida is not arable
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  124. This is interesting post. 1. Yes, similar to Japan i the 90's except Japan had reached high income while China is about 1/3 (or less) the GDP per capita that Japan was in back in the 90's. 2. Demographic problem of China is indeed worse than it was in 90's Japan. 3. Those internal & external conflicts are indeed making it harder for China to combat their economic problems. 4. One positive for China (at least in comparison to Japan) is that China can learn from 90's Japan and from 2008 housing market crashes around much of the world to address the problem today
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  125.  @EebstertheGreat  " You aren't wrong, but the way you wrote it is a little pessimistic" Because @João Cerceau actually is wrong in what they are suggesting.
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  126. Do you not understand the words 'slowing down'? China's GDP growth is quickly shrinking and taking A LOT OF MONEY to even keep it at or around 5%. US growth rate in 2023 was 3.3% in Q4 2023 and 5% in Q3. In addition, China has 1/5 the GDP per capita of the US and with a Shrinking growth rate while the US is back to a steady 2.5% annual growth rate. China's economic problems will only get worse as demographic AND housing crisis accelerates all while they are increasingly alienating themselves from most of their large trading partners.
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  127.  @angusyoung1448  That's such a Child like response. You work in Beijing? China's GDP growth is falling fast and will continue to fall as it's demographic AND housing crises worsen. When Taiwan, South Korea and Japan were at similar GDP per capita as China is today, they had some 7%+ annaul GDP growth for the next 20 years!! China is expected to have only about 3% annual GDP growth for next 20 years. Math probably isn't your skill but to put that in perspective, if you start with $100... 7% annual growth is $387 while at 3% that's $180. Basically China in 20 years will be at 40% of what it would have been if it had Taiwan/SK/Japan's level growth that they experienced in the 20yrs after they reached the level China has reached today.
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  128.  @angusyoung1448  Attack your comment? Why not since it's literally terrible argument meant to defend China. Explain how it doesn't make you seem like a Beijing worker when you are criticizing people for pointing out China has major economic problems that even Xi is worried about and the govt is doing everything it can to prevent a full economic collapse?
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  129.  @angusyoung1448  "an't you just present your sound reasoning without debasing other people? " I'll apologize if you admit China has conc camps of Uyghurs and is a very oppressive state that is a problem to many of its neighbors? Otherwise, it would seem like you are here to make TERRIBLE arguments in support of China.
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  130.  @louiss2441  Yes, Angus Young post was poorly written and clearly he is here to defend glorious Xi.
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  131.  @angusyoung1448  Funny how you can't even answer if China has camps of Uyghurs. No wonder the original post stated what it did...it wasn't meant to talk facts but defend glorious Xi
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  132. ITT: I saw this on half as interesting!!
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  133.  @LENZ5369  I was referring to non-hunting safaris. it's certainly a net positive. The video is unclear (though suggest net positive) on trophy hunting. "It's not like there is going to be $10k hot air balloon rides to replace killing an elephant." Except you have thousands each day on safari in some of these countries. I spent over $1k for two of us over 4 days on a safari. There were were dozens of us in this one small complex so assuming they all paid the same, that was probably over $40k in one week at that facility. I stayed in a relatively cheap place -- there were 'resorts' inside the park that would probably be 4x to 10x more expensive. These were all non hunting safaris.
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  134.  @LENZ5369  "you keep bringing in stuff that is not relevant and expanding the issue." I'm literally bringing up the relevant issues, it's you that isn't. - "This not about total tourism or whatever -this is about what is happening in that "PROTECTED" area." Like this, you refuse to understand what is relevant to the discussion. Total tourism was to fact check your suggestion of how trophy hunting safaris bring in more money. There is a difference between bringing in more money PER person vs bringing in more money in TOTAL. That's why total tourism matters. Why do you keep trying to argue that non-hunting safaris are bad because trophy hunting safaris are happening? They are not the same and some countries don't allow trophy hunting safaris, such as Kenya. Each time I try to defend the non-hunting safaris, you dish-nestly conflate it with hunting safaris. They are separate arguments and not related to each other. - "Do you honestly believe supporting 20 or 30 times more people in that park will be less damaging than the handful of rich aho?" If they only deal with the rich who want trophy hunting, there is less incentive for these poor countries to protect a much larger area of their country. - "The issue was supposed to be the wellbeing of THAT Park and if it is in fact actually being protected or simply being slowly 'used up' for profit." Ideological people with low intelligence tend to think that poor countries will simply protect lands without any profit. Are you a communist as well? You think people will just magically work their hardest for the common good to produce food and goods or do you think incentives (money) help more?
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  135.  @haochengzhai7156  "Delivery 12-28 months,". Did you not read the whole comment? I'm guessing Chinese is your first language? I said it's 12-28 months from the day a decision is made to order samples to the day the first full producition order is received. In between it's lead time of samples, testing of samples, having to re-order samples if needed, having our customer (the end product) test it and qualify it, getting every approval and ordering the first production order, lead time of that first production build, and then the delivery lead time which if it's from Asia is 4-6 weeks in transit and if from Mexico 3-5 business days.
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  136.  @haochengzhai7156  so many see see pee 50 cent here.
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  137.  @widodoakrom3938  "china manufacturing capabilities far higher than both". Oh, so 50 center doesn't think Vietnam and India are growing their manfuacturing? Or Mexico? China got that business at the start because they were very low cost and Vietnam & India are doing the same -- they are now the very low cost places.
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  138.  @后宫后  " China will replicate everything from the West and use its own system for rapid development.' Unfortunately they aren't succeeding as well as South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. China's annual GDP growth for the next 20 years is expected to be about 3%. When SK, Japan & Taiwan reached the same GDP per capita that China has today, those 3 countries had average growth of 7% for the next 20 to 30 years! China's sheer size of course means more industry but on per capita basis, they will not come close to those other 3.
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  139.  @shinobikyojune1849  Andre won't show us a source because they are here to defend China rather than to talk facts.
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  140.  @paulihuhtinen1821  yes, I know that. What’s the relevance? Is it not true global extreme poverty dropped from 45% to 10%? Is it not true that many nations went from poor to middle income or even upper income since ww2?
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  141.  @tren133  China is mostly entirely domestic market ranking 12th in export value. Mexico is a huge exporter of automobiles, ranking 5th. By value in billions of USD in 2021: 1. Germany 139.1 2. Japan 85.6 3. USA 54.7 4. South Korea 44.3 5. Mexico 33.9 12. China 22.4 By number in millions: 1. Japan 3.0 2. Germany 2.4 3. South Korea 2.0 4. China 1.6 5. USA 0.97
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  142.  @dearcoolz  China exported lot of low price costs. Germany still exported more on value. Based on your comment in this thread, are you enjoying Beijing? I'm guessing you cannot admit that millions of Uyhgurs have been sent to con.c c.mps.
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  143.  @dearcoolz  Hmmm...you cannot admit that China has sent millions of Uyghurs to some conc facilities? As expected. And the giveaway was you were ONLY defending China AND using typical talking points of the party. Who sings 'In da Club'? That's your favorite rapper.
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  144.  @psikeyhackr6914  I clearly meant 60 years. (edited 6 back to 60). What I am not understanding is the lame attempt of equating automobiles to China's HOUSING and or economic crisis. Even your respond to me provides no such answer to that.
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  145. Winston Tj “I just came from your video”. Strange kink you have
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  146. Last time I came this early I became an uncle!
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  147. I watched this video...Just In Time
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  148. THE DOG FOOD IS MADE OF SOYLENT GREEN!!
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  149. Geography is NOT a problem for China and in fact it’s been great for China. 95% of all countries have a bigger geography problem than China. So many issues with this video but here are a few: 1. Already mentioned in the video, China has a lot of fertile land. 2. Borders with Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar are NOT problems for China. While the mountainous terrain does make it hard for China to invade Southeast Asia, China is also very mountainous in that area. So how can you say it’s a problem for China when China also has the same geography? This is only a problem if China wants to invade those ‘jungle countries’. 3. Tibet (Himalayan Mountains), Gobi desert protect and mountains along Vietnam/Laos/Myanmar protect China from the south and west. Again, these are GREAT for defense of China. It does make it harder to invade those countries – but that’s almost always the case. If you argue some border is great for invading, it likely means it’s weak for defending. Rarely will a border be great for invading and great for defending. 4. The pacific ocean allows distance between China and the US. I guess the argument in this video is that any access to the ocean is a bad geography problem – but it’s access to the pacific ocean is why it’s been a great export nation.
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  150.  @gtasaints  What justifications? Are you also wanting poor people of Africa to stay poor? or are you making fun of the other guy, anonymous?
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  151.  @mystery19933  So you do you want africans to stay poor. Why? You do know that without people buying what they are selling (in my case I bought safaris and a trip to the beach), they will stay poor. Why don't you care for poor people to become financially better off?
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  152.  @boudewijnb  I get it, you want to act like trains are superior all the the time. They aren’t. Once you get pass maybe 400 km, the flights are just so much faster overall. To use a train long distance, you need a direct HSR and those are few that are long distance and they cost a lot of money. Most people would rather spend 4hrs waiting at airport and flight time for 100 euro than 4hrs total for train but 200 euro
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  153.  @andrewaldrich3602  well, as others pointed out there are different types of farmers. Owning and running a large farm requires a lot of experience and intelligence. Running a small farm or being a farm hand doesn’t require as much complicated thinking. There aren’t many small farms in the US anymore.
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  154.  @jmallinson  “ “what you’re saying isn’t necessarily wrong”…it’s completely right and relevant to the actual discussion about guns and gun culture. This isn’t a history of Australia Video, it’s a history of guns and gun control in Australia video
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  155.  @doujinflip  100% true. China did have a brief moment when they created a large navy that was headed by Zheng He in the early 1400's. Then they quickly ended that. That navy reached India and even Africa but they saw no financial justification for it since they believed (with merit) they have enough goods & resources either in 'China' or can be obtained by land trade. The Europeans lacked a lot of resources so they were always incentivized to build a navy for trade and protecting trade.
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  156. I’ve always seen Florida as 3 parts: the “southern” north (northern FL has southern culture), Miami area (densely packed, lots of immigrants, lots of young people) and then the rest of the southern half of FL (retirees, middle class people who want boring suburban life).
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  157. Overall a well balanced and thought out video. Mexico is indeed prime to be the next China, though 1/10th the population. But the Mexican president AMLO is actually a hinderance on that as he has been somewhat anti business in many policies. He certainly isn't doing much to help which was highlighted in the video. With the right president and federal government, I think Mexico can realize that potential and start seeing big improvements to the economy. The time is now for them to act. 10 years from now, the dust will be settled and it will be difficult for Mexico to gain new industries at that point. So glad the Mexican states are taking on the responsibilities to attract the factories.
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  158.  @nunya___  Hey now, that's my quote!! "Alcohol: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems".
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  159.  @RT804  oh man, right winger at work here. It’s not politicians fault for nimby — it’s the people who vote in the politicians and then show up to stop any construction. And the politicians aren’t “too busy with trans rights”. That’s a small part of what they do and civil rights are important, except to a|t r1ght.
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  160.  @UmbraHand  I get it, you aren’t smart. By your logic, the US has a bigger economy and US is certainly a more powerful global force so Polymatter should have more than 50% content about the US. I honestly don’t know how someone can be as dumb as you. It’s an opinion that Polymatter is too repetitive (though well founded opinion) and you seem to argue an opinion is wrong?!? And your logic is that China is 2nd biggest economy so it makes sense that over half of the content is about China?!
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  161.  @twerkingfish4029  完全同意这个五毛
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  162.  @rubyfornewbies6744  Yes, I called out the See See Pee account and you have issues of me information others about that? Oh, another See See Pee account! How is Beijing today? Want 50 more cents?
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  163.  @jesusgerardomorales5124  He's not scared, he's Chinese -- paid.
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  164.  @dianapennepacker6854  Yes, Vietnam is already fast growing. One of the fastest in Asia the past 15 or so years. Philippine I see online that service sector passed up manufacturing and the biggest part of service is "Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)". Definition: Business process outsourcing (BPO) is a method of subcontracting various business-related operations to third-party vendors. Broadly speaking, companies adopt BPO practices in the two main areas of back-office and front-office operations. Back office BPO refers to a company contracting its core business support operations such as accounting, payment processing, IT services, human resources, regulatory compliance, and quality assurance to outside professionals who ensure the business runs smoothly. By contrast, front office BPO tasks commonly include customer-related services such as tech support, sales, and marketing.
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  165. If you had 10,000 subscribers and then 100,000 subscribers, you might have a different opinion at that time.
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  166.  @Ushio01 you can’t get a fully working transit system without raising money and that’s what congestion tolls do….raise money for public transit. And New York has amazing public transit with buses everywhere and trains near most people. That said, it’s not remotely accurate to say no one is affected. All policies have losers or else they would have been policy along time ago!
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  167. Yeah, it's not a low cost airline anymore. It's middle of the road costs but good value as you can pay the same price as the other middle cost airlines but get 2 bags checkin and easy cancellation or rescheduling.
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  168.  @TerrySitu  No it's not hard to compare GDP between countries. It's much better to compare GDP than ignore it. What's your evidence the US inflates GDP when the process is very public and can be fact checked by others? It's also not run by the president...unlike China where it's very secretive and serves only Xi or the head of the party. In addition, many studies show China is likely greatly exaggerating their GDP growth year in and year out
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  169.  @swissfreek yup! Company I worked for did 90% of business in agricultural and construction equipment. I’m actually surprised there aren’t more major players doing both in high volumes. The insides (cabins) look very similar with similar equipment inside them. The major differences are the attachments but often those still have lots of similarities that it shouldn’t be a problem for one manufacturer to jump from one to the other industry. I’m guessing it’s mostly a history of marketing and name recognition in those industries that is a barrier to some from jumping to the other industry
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  170. It's keeping it afloat for now but it will have to pop.
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  171.  @LENZ5369  Those figures? You mention how much ONE safari might bring up, no mention of how many trophy hunting safaris there are per day or per week. Therefore it's not very relevant to say a trophy hunting safari can bring in 15k to just 1k for non-hunting safari without mentioning how many of each are happening. I went to safaris in Kenya and trophy hunting is illegal. I'm not sure how accurate it is but I looked up Tanzania and they generate something near or over $2 billion in total tourism spending from and $0.2 billion from trophy hunting so it's only 10% of total tourism. The trophy hunting figure was total spent while they were there so not just the fee for the hunt. "And as I already said; MORE people means MORE infrastructure; which means MORE destruction of natural habitat." Without reasons to monetize nature, they will not protect nature. That's how it is -- especially for poor countries. You must be some extreme ideological type that doesn't care how the real world actually operates.
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  172.  @haochengzhai7156  what should be out of the market? You don't eve know my industry and how much testing there has to be. I'm talking about electro mechanical parts, not screw drivers or something simple.
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  173.  @haochengzhai7156  they last forecast china to have 4% gdp growth 2023-2029 and dropping in 2030’s. What is that supposed to show?
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  174.  @haochengzhai7156  “I am chínese” is the most obvious statement from a 50 center
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  175.  @widodoakrom3938  Getting .50 cents a comment?
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  176.  @widodoakrom3938  "Samsung their profit plummeted 96% bcs they moved their manufacture factory from china to India and Vietnam" Got 50 cents for that false claim? Sales dropped as customers bought up fewer cell phones and laptops.
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  177.  @lord_of_love_and_thunder  Does Widodo Akrom believe Samsung profits fell by 96% of the production move? Probably not, just paid 50 cents to post it.
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  178.  @后宫后  what are you even suggesting or arguing with SK 1, Japan 10 and western world are 80? What are those rankings or numbers? And where does China fit in those ranking or numbers?
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  179.  @interrobangings  yes, but Taiwan has now for decades stopped truly trying to claim they are “THE China” which is why 22yrs ago (2002) they officially recognized Mongolia as independent country. They only stick to claims of South China Sea that are mostly the same as China purely as to not give China any leverage.
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  180.  @KevinFields777  You riase some good points but I don't think " 20 years down the road it's likely that China is the dominant," is correct. We don't know. We do know China beneifted heavily from WTO. But you're overall point that one factor was to push China in the right direction. But what OP said was also correct though I think misleading. US and many WTO member states wanted China in the WTO in part with hope it would push China to improve on human rights. This was a common belief at the time that did have some success stories. What we have found out since then is that such hope on human rights reforms doesn't work on two types. One are the natural resource rich countries that can just find buyers in the global market. If country A doesn't want to buy oil or gas, they can sell it to country B at roughly the same price. Think Russia, Saudi Arabia and other oil states. The other type is the country with a large domestic market that is less dependent on other countries for resources and who's large domestic market is a bargaining chip they can use against those trying to get them to reform. Think China and increasingly India.
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  181.  @The_budgetking  China is indeed trying to go after India in many spots. WSJ youtube has a video titles "Why China’s Land Grab in Bhutan Threatens India". Check it out
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  182.  @SomeoneFromBeijing  Japanese constitution literally allows them to defend their territory and thus their claim means they are justified to use the navy to take all their claimed territory. Maybe read a bit into it Additionally, though it isn’t 100% certain but is what Japanese government has argued, they could use their military to help defend Taiwan because Japanese govt claims an attâck on Taiwan is a danger to Japan’s security 🇨🇳 does a lot of things that go against their constitution by finding ways around it. Isn’t there freedom of speech and press in the 🇨🇳 constitution?
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  183. Yeah, what do all these data and statistical experts even know? And sure there numerous studies showing that weaker gun laws and higher gun ownership rates each are associated with higher murder rates. But the video and the analysis from the experts is clearly wrong!!
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  184. Hello Nigerian prince, where I can deposit the dollars?
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  185.  @taterkaze9428  it was in 1951. By 1971 it had 20 years of strong growth.
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  186. Can you expand on the point you are trying to make? What did the US do last *60 yrs with automobiles? What data do you have on depreciation of automobiles and how it relates to this topic?
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  187. So this isn’t a video about bricks?
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  188. Yeah, what do all these data and statistical exports even know? And sure there numerous studies showing that weaker gun laws and higher gun ownership rates each are associated with higher murder rates. But the video and the analysis from the experts is clearly wrong!!
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  189.  @DSlyde  ok, so you’re saying all the experts who have looked at Australia and who have also studied gun control In general are all wrong? Or is possible you are highly bias for guns? Which do you think? And there were 12 cases of mass shootings in 10 years going into the year of the new gun control. It would be 20 years before another mass shooting. Are you saying that it still not enough data to determine that the gun regulations lead to a sharp decline in mass shootings and murders? Also, what is your opinions on guns? In summary, are you saying you cannot determine anything if there 12 incidents in the 10 years up to 1997 then major reform to address those incidents, then 20 years without any incidents?
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  190.  @DSlyde  the research discussed in this video is peer reviewed as well. You say it’s a bad study but it’s peer reviewed and also supported by other research. That’s why I’m asking for you opinion on guns — it’s highly likely you are very bias in favor of guns. Well, that’s more likely than the researchers and experts who reviewed the research are all wrong. And if you won’t reply about your opinion on guns, I think that is a strong indication you have a very pro gun view
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  191. I think it was the NYT podcast The Daily that had an episode on this mess, specifically focused on the system used by SouthWest. If I recall correctly, many employees including middle/upper management had been warning Southwest corporate executives that their system is flawed. What wasn't mentioned in this Wendover video was how difficult it was for Southwest Airline employees to call in sick or call in to say they can't make the flight -- it all had to be done over the phone with no computer system to handle it. So when some of those flights started to get cancelled and the staff couldn't make their destination in time to for the next shift, a large number of employees were calling in but the phone lines were flooded so they waited hours to speak to someone. This means Southwest wasn't able to reschedule the crew and thus they were often short of crew to work a plane. Add in the failures described in the video and you see why Southwest was force to just cancel all flights for a couple days and restart the whole process.
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  192. I’ve always seen Florida as 3 parts: the “southern” north (northern FL has southern culture), Miami area (densely packed, lots of immigrants, lots of young people) and then the rest of the southern half of FL (retirees, middle class people who want boring suburban life).
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  193. The problem is the government giving away so many subsidized loans and financial aid
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  194.  @ShaunCheah  nah, this is sponsored by that guy at half as interesting
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  195.  @MoinkAndKilo  you mean those on the list are brave enough to tell China
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  196.  @unatrek2821  Americans have 50% higher cars (vehicles) per capita than the EU. Americans also drive more than twice as much as the EU per capita. So Americans have more cars and drive those cars far more than Europeans. Most Europeans do have access to a car (their own or a family shared vehicle) because they do need it on occasion but for most it’s not an an everyday need, unlike Americans.
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  197.  @unatrek2821  “Americans like cars for many reasons” because Americas decided to stop building public transit (and removed many others like trams and street cars) for a while and built up roads like crazy! So of course Americans like cars when policies built up roads and neglected or removed public transit options.
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  198.  @unatrek2821  "Europe has 700 cars per 1000." Actually, EU has 560 cars per 1000 and US has 890 cars per 1000. In addition, US travels more than twice as far per year by car than Europe. And Europe was falling in love with cars as well post WW2 but since the 70's, they have worked backwards to remove cars and spend more on public transit. US continued to tear down train lines or stopped spending on new public transit while they increased spending for cars.
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  199.  @neonbunnies9596  then you are just cherry picking videos while I’m talking about the Category as whole
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  200.  @neonbunnies9596  people wondering about how stocks and trading work are more likely to engage in stocks and trading than say a person watching wendover on rail logistics will get involved with rail industry. Certain categories attack people ready to spend on that category and finance category is one of them. Perhaps travel category is another one?
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  201. ​ @neonbunnies9596  " However, until they fully understand how the risks and rewards of stocks and trading work, they can be easily lured into get-rich-quick schemes" yeah, that's true of a lot of categories. I watch a lot of those channels and advertisements often include actual solid services. But I agree, they are looking for services and thus it will attract get-rich-quick schemes as well.
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  202.  @batardbreton7083  I’ve seen great progress in a few countries in Europe, some discussed here like Germany and italy. It benefited the airlines tremendous so why is it difficult to understand it can do the same for rail? Sure you do have to manage it properly so it’s not a complete and total liberalizing of the rail
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  203.  @plasma1392  limiting how much in a bet likely still has very positive impact. Something doesn’t need to be 100% effective to be effective.
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  204. 16:45 East Germans GDP per capita is 75% of west but it has also grown a lot…it’s just that west Germany economy grew as well. So they are better off today. However, The 90’s were indeed a tough time as they transitioned — same happened to most countries transitioning from communism to free market in the 90s.
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  205. Never thought I would be interested in NYC water and yet here I am. Great video
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  206.  @HeidiThompson7  in the US, many people in the suburbs drive at least 15 min to their grocery store. In Europe that would seem like too long of a drive for groceries
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  207.  @JaimeWarlock  where In Hawaii would it take 3 hours to get to a Costco? The only place I can think of is living near Hana?
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  208.  @JaimeWarlock  Hana to costco is also about 2hrs per google maps. It's a slow winding round to Hana -- I don't know how people live there, it's so secluded (remote - 45min to anything else) and it's extremely rainy. I stayed in an AIRBNB near Pahoa a few years ago. I forgot about that Southwest part of the big island. Isn't Hilo the biggest city on the Island? I would have thought Costco would be by Hilo.
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  209.  @rcbrascan  you subscribe to The Barrets and Daniel Dumbrill— both are paid by CCP to spread propa for the CCP. You guys are so obvious in these comment sections of YouTube
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  210.  @SelfProclaimedEmperor  lol, so of course RC Brascan subscribed to western YouTubers paid by CCP to spread CCP talking points. Daniel Dumbrill and The Barrets. These CCP accounts are so obvious.
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  211.  @J_X999  they haven’t popped the bubble. All they did was stop inflating the bubble but the bubble is going to pop at some point. Massive bankruptcy in real estate have occurred and more likely to follow.
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  212. Sam (Wendover), you could probably do this every quarter!! I would love to hear the positive highlights of the last quarter every quarter!
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  213.  @boudewijnb  not a good response. Most people are using Ryan air instead of train when cities are not THAT close by train. So Madrid to Rome for example. Not Madrid to Barcelona.
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  214.  @mohammedsarker5756  bro, are people dense? Trains cost a lot of money and for longer distances are much more time. Most people would rather spend 100 euro for 4 hour total transit (flight plus airport time) than 200 euro for 4 hour total transit train
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  215.  @lik7953  why are you people leaving out the fact it costs twice as much or even more to take the train from London to Paris on high speed than it does to take Ryan air or any cheap flights? These videos always bring in the uneducated circlejerk.
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  216.  @HDrobveelben  so it only makes sense for rich people who can pay 2x or 3x the costs of HSR vs a cheap flight
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  217.  @yuvalw7543  I’m sorry, did you say you do t know why people would take a flight when they can save $100 and take 2 hours less commute than the train??
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  218.  @truedarklander  “liberalization puts this in jeopardy” after watching a that demonstrated quiet well that liberalization has lead to great growth in rail and even more in air transit.
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  219.  @erinmcdonald7781  People complaining about liberalization of rail after watching a that demonstrated quiet well that liberalization has lead to great growth in rail and even more in air transit.
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  220.  @TohaBgood2  USPS is still profitable. Lol. Ups and FedEx used USPS for a lot of their deliveries and USPS benefited
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  221. Man, I’m very worried El Salvador will slip into autocracy. This is how Putin started except Putin “solved” a major economic issue while in El Salvador it was a violence problem. I really hope those moves are just temporary but only time will tell
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  222.  @doujinflip  And as you pointed out, when the Europeans began arriving in ships in the 1700's, they began to demonstrate sea power. Then in the 1800's, they easily defeated the Chinese near the coasts, along the rivers, and even in land a little bit. Chinese had nothing to stop European navies.
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  223.  @markallen6433  In democracy index, the highest rankings in sub saharian africa are Mauritius and Botswana. Both are also fairly wealthy by sub-saharan standards. South Africa is 4th and it's also fairly rich relative to Africa.
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  224.  @markallen6433  Mauritius is the only country labeled as 'full democracy' in the EIU democracy index. It's number 19. But in another it's 50th. Democracy Matrix has, Cape Verde is the highest and it's number 37. So african countries (both subsaharan and northern africa) compare disfavorably.
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  225.  @markallen6433  "Mauritius btw isn't African" Its included in all the indexes as Africa but I agree with you. Africa has a long way to go...even their best is not much better than the worst in eastern Europe.
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  226. Governments should NOT give tax breaks to stadiums used for only one team. They should also incentivize stadiums that used much more frequently. Land is hard to acquire as it is in major cities and if the stadium is used more frequently (such as hosting both nba and nhl), it generates more tax revenue for the city AND more consumers for the local businesses around the stadium.
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  227.  @DroneBeeStrike  u sound like the worst kind of person. You think it's good for the economy and for the people that a major chain loses money for a bit to drive out competition then raises the prices Just admit it, you don't competitive market capitalism. You like the monopoly type of capitalism.
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  228.  @lucidmoses  When I said luxury safaris, I didn't mean the ones that hunt. I'm talking about those that pay $1,000 a night for a villa inside the park. Trophy hunting, to me, is a different 'experience'. I'm not sure the trophy hunting is a net positive because I think it incentivizes potential bad behavior. If the system has little or no corruption, then it would be a positive. But with a corrupt system, it increases the chances that the animals up for trophy hunting are not past their mating life.
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  229. "a good thing" as in terrible mistakes left to keep getting worse but finally something is being done to address it? All while Xi's policies on other matters that effect housing have worsened the problem? I agree it needed to be deflated but the issue gets much worse with Xi driving down the economy with many of his policies so now there will be a hit on the housing market at the same time the economic growth is shrinking relatively fast.
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  230.  @J_X999  Do you believe China has conc camps of Uyghurs and is an aggressive state that is a danger to many of it's neighbors? Gives me a good idea of Beijing worker or not
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  231.  @J_X999  don't believe millions of Muslims' in western China have been sent to camps? Give me an idea of where you are coming from with Xi praise based on misinfo
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  232. 1/2 the videos at Polymatter are China related and 2/3 are Asia related. It’s actually getting too repetitive
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  233.  @UmbraHand  so a channel that is focuses in geopolitics has over half the content being about China and you don’t think there is such a thing as being too repetitive? Imagine being as dumb as you. So if a channel was about basketball, if over half was Lebron, you would say that’s perfectly normal?
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  234.  @UmbraHand  China isn’t even more than half of the worlds economy if you remove the US and yet 50% of content from Polymatter is from China. He’s literally got two different videos on the Housing market of China in just the past 2 years. He’s also got 2 on chinas demographic problem from the one child policy in past 2 years. When do you get your 50 cents?
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  235.  @xiphoid2011  It is a CCP account. It somehow received 4.4k likes...then it dropped to 4k then dropped to 3.3k then to 3k then 2.9k now at 3.0k .They bought votes and YT was able to partially catch them so removed many of the likes.
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  236.  @rubyfornewbies6744  Interesting how you have no other comments ever in this channel -- how did you end up here? You're not a subscriber to the channel. So 50 cents or just given a link to this page to defend the other China accounts?
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  237.  @StayActive98  his account (aaa mint) was started Feb 2020. That’s when pandemic started and China began a massive campaign to spread false news online to defend China. Lots of YouTube and Reddit accounts created in early 2020 that defended the ccp
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  238.  @ToneHelix97  they bought a bunch of likes. They had quickly got up to 4.4k likes and then YT started taking some away and it was brought down to 2.9k within a few minutes. They moved it back up to 4.9k with more bought likes
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  239.  @napalmholocaust9093  OP also bought likes
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  240.  @aaamint9981  1000 likes in 19 minutes? Wow. Well, I saw it go from 4.4k to 2.9k in 2 minutes dropping a few hundred each time I reloaded the page. Then it stopped at 2.9k for an hour. I comeback another hour two later and it was back to around 4k and now it's been stuck at 4.9k for the past 24hrs. YT appears to have removed a lot of the likes but then they bought new likes.
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  241. The current political situation is because Russia wants to rebuild its empire. This is why so many if it’s former puppet states dislike and fear Russia.
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  242. Vlogbrothers (Hank and John Green) and Johnny Harris left comments on wendover? What’s next, Half as Interesting stopping as well?
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  243. Good video until the final few minutes of opinion 1. Locally grown food will do almost nothing to local food prices. Labor costs are high and Hawaiian lands would be better suited for higher end cash crops on the island — think organic foods for good restaurants 2. Saying the US broke the system means you actually think people 150yrs ago lived better than today. They worked most days just to have enough to eat. Hawaii and it’s people are are much better off today than 150yrs ago and that’s true for most of the world
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  244.  @GastropodGaming2006  literally studies on Australia holding variables constant and all they show the gun reform did reduce shootings and massacres. They might disagree on how much impact but they all agree it had positive impact
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  245. The amount of subsidies that EV manufacturers in China receive is insane and the west can’t compete with subsidies that large. But they found a way to deal with it…high tariffs on Chinese EVs and subsidies for home grown EVs. The execution of the plan will determine the success. I don’t have much faith in legacy car manufacturers to make the pivot
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  246.  @lcemobile1518 most of the safety issues mentioned here apply to all parks
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  247. Russia will not survive sanctions in the long run. Their government has already said there are issues. Their keeping their economy afloat by spending $100 billion a year on a war and using their currency reserves to prop up the ruble. They will run out of currency reserves in 3-4 years at this pace. Their own reported budget deficit for Jan-Mar this year $30B, which would be $120B a year at this pace. That’s the equivalent of $1.5 trillion yearly budge deficit for the US. Could the US do that for 4 years?
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  248. Russia doesn’t have a strong manufacturing base. They have natural resource base. And they are being forced to sell it for less than they would get otherwise. And industries that aren’t natural resource are suffering now
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  249. THOSE RICH PEOPLE WOULD NOT IN WYOMING IF NOT FOR TAX BREAK. Imagine thinking Wyoming would be better off without those rich people
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  250.  @Ushio01  “you can”. Sure, you can do anything! But it doesn’t mean it’s easy and feasible or certain. You need to raise lots of money and what, one of the highest taxed cities in the country will just raise taxes for all to help only those in manhattan? Be realistic and stop being uneducated on how real life works.
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  251.  @mirkovicaleksandar9071  you sound ignorant. The typical wendover video gets a far higher like % than this one does. This has attracted a lot of pro CCP types who instantly downvote anything that isn’t at least 98% favorable towards China
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  252.  @mirkovicaleksandar9071  you’re ignorant because you don’t think CCP trolls are out there even though this video has 89% like ratio (89:11) while the previous on England trains is 98%. That’s a sign of something shady
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  253.  @Sujay95  you do know that wendover has made like 5 others on covid and 4 of them have like ratio of 98% and one at 95%. This one is under 90%. This one goes in depth about China so that’s the only difference.
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  254. "china is switching out of the manufacturing focus," And struggling to do so! China is now expected to have an annual GDP growth of around 3% for the next 20 years. When Taiwan, South Korea and Japan were at the same GDP per capita that China is today, they had approximately 7% GDP growth for the next 20-30 years! That's a massive failure when compared to it's east Asian counterparts. >just like how the united states was a massive manufacturing country in the 1930s till 50s, Except the US was already upper income country at that point. China is not close to even it's East Asian counterparts who have 4x higher GDP per capita.
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  255.  @austinhernandez2716  natural problem of capitalism? Only if you think capitalism means zero regulation You also took the click bait title too literally. The advancements discussed in the video that you did not watch (since you posted only a few minutes after video was released) have been a net positive to the agriculture. That doesn’t mean everything has been perfect but the click bait title is just that..click bait
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  256.  @ZalamaTheDragonGod  you’re asking why capitalism is needed to help develop the best tech? It’s not proof enough that all the communist countries produced terrible tech (cars, farming and construction equipment, computers, etc) that didn’t sell outside of communist countries? Wow, says a lot about u
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  257.  @ZalamaTheDragonGod  USSR going from feudalism to communism doesn’t mean communism was better than capitalism. Only lowIQ types make that jump to conclusion…especially when many other countries went from feudalism to some sort of capitalism and succeed greatly (most of central and Western Europe among others). And many former communist countries saw much better success going from communism to some form of market capitalism.
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  258.  @ZalamaTheDragonGod  “monopolization reigns supreme”. Communism is literally a monopoly so by your own argument, communism is worse
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  259.  @ZalamaTheDragonGod  “better Cuba than Haiti”. So 150 countries are financially better off than Cuba but because a few non communist countries (with no rule of law) are worse than Cuba, it means communism is better? Wow
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  260.  @briangasser973  oil is an international commodity. There are many producers and almost everyone is a buyer. It means you aren't necessarily buying Saudi Oil but you are effected by Saudi oil
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  261.  @anush_agrawal how does @seed have 1.4 million subscribers with just one random video? Did they delete all their other videos?
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  262.  @TerrySitu  1. No it's not hard to compare GDP between countries. It's much better to compare GDP than just ignore it like you. What's your evidence the US inflates GDP when the process is very public and can be fact checked by others? It's also not run by the president...unlike China where it's very secretive and serves only Xi or the head of the party. In addition, many studies show China is likely greatly exaggerating their GDP growth year in and year out 2. What does total GDP have to do with this argument? That just sounds so much like an irrelevant See See Pee talking pt
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  263.  @hamzamahmood9565  Well, they have learned from Japan but how much they will apply really depends on what kind of control Xi wants to have. So to the point you are suggesting, it's possible they don't actually put in practice what they learn...but it's still information they have available that wasn't available for Japan 30 yrs ago. Then again, Japan didn't have as many issues as China does when both saw the start of their crisis.
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  264.  @More_Row  No, they would rather NOT collapse but also never admit they learned from Japan
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  265.  @Gregy624  if you were told that a certain diet leads do an average weight loss of 10 lbs but it turns out it’s only 3lbs, is that a scam? It’s off by 3x to 4x. I think that’s Sam’s (wendover) point. It’s a scam but there is still an offset
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  266.  @crackasaurus_rox9740 ​​⁠yes, ur comment is nonsensical. By your logic, the equipment today is the same as it was 50 years ago and 150 years ago. Oh wait, today’s best equipment utilize computers, apps, gps, self driving mechanisms, etc. the modern equipment is full of tech
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  267.  @crackasaurus_rox9740  And more and more tech is what has lead to increase yields which means we can feed more people with less land. We (global) now produce more food than what people need — starvation is down tremendously and is mostly only occurring in places of war or where infrastructure is lacking and preventing food from arriving at affordable prices
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  268.  @crackasaurus_rox9740  if you don’t understand basic English then perhaps it’s not YOUR first language. And if you don’t understand the basics of technological advancements, even English can appear like YOUR second language and not your first.
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  269.  @gerardocorcuera  There is a balance but if you just keep giving money away rather than investing it in creating jobs and creating workforce, you will forever be stuck in poverty. Government should provide very basic welfare initially -- make sure they have access to healthcare, have access to affordable housing, and make sure they aren't starving. The rest should be spent on infrastructure, education, tax breaks to draw foreign investment, public transportation. Only as the country gets richer can they start to afford more than the very basic necessities. And staying on AMLO, his business policies are often based on supposedly trying to keep workers in the government owned industries rather than trying to actually develop those industries. That's an indirect way of 'giving money away'. He's increased nationalization of several sectors. This is especially a problem in a country with lots of corruption.
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  270.  @deenil  I’m referring to welfare beyond the very very basic needs. Context difficult for you? Notice I didn’t say “I wanna eliminate welfare”
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  271.  @deenil  everyone online is either very right wing or very left wing. Annoying
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  272.  @tikos7704  Yes, they need to address those issues where they can but at the same time keep the economy growing and keep getting foreign investment.
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  273.  @mikemiller659  You either have to have cheap labor or have very well educated population. Or strike oil rich. so poor countries move up on the income ladder by making their cheap labor more easily available for foreign investors, that drives up wages, the govt then (or should) continue to invest in it's people so that as labor costs rise they have other things they can offer. Eventually if all works out, they will be like Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and a few others that went from poor to high income nations
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  274.  @mystorey  Are you referring to my comment "East and South East Asia that have seen a lot of growth basically kept welfare minimal but spend heavily on housing, education, and transportation/infrastructure."? Thailand & Malaysia also in SE Asia. Possibly Taiwan if that's SE Asia. I was referring to most of the countries basically from Singapore & Malaysia east and up to Japan and South Korea.
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  275.  @HABHDAY  I worked with a company with factories in Mexico and use to go often. I also go often to Mexico for leisure. Not an economist, lol, but I do enjoy consuming economic and business related content and have experience working with manufacturing companies that have had factories in Mexico, China, Vietnam, Taiwan.
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  276. Fun fact: Clearly u work for Beijing because Japan could have done it too. China only got a strong navy the past decade but Japan has had one of the strongest for a while. How many yuan u get?
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  277.  @SomeoneFromBeijing  you are clearly using bad arguments to defend 🇨🇳 . Prove to me you don’t just blanket repeat the 🇨🇳 govt talking points. Do you believe the conc camps in Xinjiang are bad or you support having them?
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  278.  @joaocerceau5810  " they used a ton of government investment in basic research, and creating their own companies," Which they afforded by not having a big welfare state...and they mostly only created their own companies AFTER attracting a lot of foreign investment by keeping their overall labor costs low (i.e. low taxes that can be done because of limited welfare, savings from not requiring companies to have to pay too much for employees). "all of them locked in the middle income trap.". China is stuck on that. Their GDP growth is not expected to be around 3% on average over next 20 years with GDP growth expected to be near 2% in 2040.
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  279.  @maxheadrom3088  I've read up on this though everyone has their opinion. In short it's Mexico just let the cartels slowly take power and corrupt much of the government. Then in the 2000's they were pressured by the US to do something about it but it was too late, the cartels had too much power, too much money, too involved in governments and police, etc. So it was hard to take them down and when they did take down some leaders, that caused increased fighting over who will take control. It just keeps repeating. Take out the top guy, a turf war ensues. And when they (govt/police/military) are trying to stop their activities, the cartels know their moves often and don't get caught or are ready for a battle.. They know their moves because much of the govt and police force are on the payroll of cartels -- some willingly and others forced to cooperate. Same problem exist with gangs in many US cities.
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  280.  @joaocerceau5810  " after some time, they will reach a limit in witch no company or foreign agent will just keep improving their country. After that they have develop more on their own,'". yes, that's how a country can escape the middle income trap. They need to develop their own . >China and India have a scale and a development problem on their own, I don't see that problem. A larger country means more opportunities to try things or more investment opportunities. It's far easier for a country with 1.4 billion people to develop some company or industry than a country with 50 mil, in large part because a 1.4b country has huge domestic market that can prop it up and then it could become a global company with that economy of scale they had due to 1.4 billion domestic market. Look at BYD electric vehicles. Started out selling in large volume inside of China and now spreading globally. China's problem now and moving forward has to do with some decisions they made. One child policy has lead to a population decline and a big drop in working age population with increase in elderly population is going to happen over the next few decades. Fewer workers means lower GDP potential and more elderly (to each worker) means more of the resources will be spent on economically unproductive things such as support for the elderly. China has also scared away a lot of investors in recent years under Xi. Then their housing market which was just a pyramid scheme is crumbling. It was responsible for 30%+ of GDP since 2000 but it's going to be far less going forward. India is too early too tell. They are seeing 7-8% annual GDP growth for several years now. Can they keep it up? Time will tell.
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  281.  @SOY-MEXAR  Guanajuato (the city) is beautiful!! I loved it. But the rest of the state has a lot of violence.
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  282. They had decades to plan but they just kept putting everything into trying to keep coal going. What a failure of the govt and the people who kept voting them in.
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  283. I find it funny when a solution to a problem is often progressive ideas but the opposition is often progressive ideology. Wanting cleaner air and less pollution is more popular among the left but it’s also the left that mostly oppose a solution like congestion tolls due to disproportionately affecting middle and lower class.
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  284.  @brunchmuncher51  你在北京工作吗
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  285. I don’t see a problem with the sports betting but it certainly needs to be properly regulated.
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  286. @Matt, I agree. In addition, the poor countries have to be willing to do it as well and have limited corruption in the process.
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  287.  @LENZ5369  You're a communist, right? Or very left wing socialist? You tried explaining the issue in a socialist way and ignoring that poor countries need money and can't simply just protect the lands without monetizing from it. Only a communist thinks that people will magically work their hardest for the common good.
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  288.  @LENZ5369  "; thinks ANY simplistic political labels have real world applications beyond rhetoric " Can't even deny that you aren't a far left socialist or communist. I think that made my point. If poor people around the world are willing to do anything for money, why would they then protect a bunch of land without being paid while missing out on chances to make money by destroying the nature for it's resources?
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  289.  @LENZ5369  Ok??
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  290.  @whatkenyan7684  what, kenyan?
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  291.  @QemeH  Two things that have changed over time are the influence of social media (as noted in the video) that leads people to want to go to the most popular or most beautiful places only and that travel is a lot cheaper. Cheaper travel means people are less likely to take the 3-5hr road trip to spend several days at a 'decent' park and would rather just travel longer distance to see the most prestigious parks.
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  292.  @lorenkelley1568  The Juice is Loose. D'0h!
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  293.  @haochengzhai7156  Motors. They need parts from China. DO you know any of this? I'm confused because it seems like you are defending China but also not defending China.
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  294.  @haochengzhai7156  It seemed like you're trying to defend China but with arguments so bad it actually makes China look worse.
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  295.  @haochengzhai7156  China's factory activity unexpectedly contracted in April as orders fell and poor domestic demand dragged on the sprawling manufacturing sector, a private survey showed on Thursday, imperilling the broader economic outlook for the second quarter.
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  296.  @haochengzhai7156  Goldman Sachs say 4% growth this decade, half of last decade. And that’s before April manufacturing data of China showed a decline. So 50 center says all that is good!
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  297.  @haochengzhai7156  Aww, 50 center upset China's economy not doing as well as he was told by owners, See See Pee?
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  298.  @widodoakrom3938  What's the joke? I don't get it?
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  299.  @后宫后  Yes, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan did that as well. They have actually achieved upper income level. Mexico is sort of trying...
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  300.  @widodoakrom3938  "only slightly cheaper". Direct labor cost The national average labor cost is $0.92/hour in India and $3.52/hour in China, Widodo doesn't know facts.
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  301.  @StayActive98  Obviously 0 what?
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  302.  @StayActive98  Oh, got it. lol! I wasn't sure which comment you were referring to. Yeah, if it's 0-100 and 100 is most civilized, if SK is 1 then China is 0.
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  303.  @后宫后  is that 50 cent per post still your going rate?
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  304.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  "they've literally ALREADY grown at a higher rate than that,'. Beijing based? Just wondering why this comment was made, seems to not understand the argument and went straight into defending the see see pee. What they did in the past has nothing to do with what they will do moving forward. And 3 to 3.5% is what almost all the estimates put for average annual growth today through 2040, most having China under 3% a year by 2040. A big factor for China is the working age population. It has been basically flat 2012 to 2027. Then it begins it's decline from an estimated 991mil in 2027 to 866mil in 2040 and 767m in 2040. So in 2040, there will be 118million fewer potential workers or 12% decline. By 2050, 217m fewer potential workers or 22% decline. All else constant, that decline in working age population would mean 12% lower GDP in 2040 and 22% lower GDP in 2050 compared to if the population had been flat. But the impact will be more as the reduction in working age population comes with increase in elderly population which will require more of the govt resources to take care of.
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  305.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  So Beijing or Moscow based?
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  306.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  "one of the most prolific commenters here". Confirming to be Beijing based. Nice! Tracking people is what they do. > trying to discredit everyone with a different perspective from you Literally proved the arguments you made were wrong or misleading. You are arguing that people should just let others (and you) just state wrong information.
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  307.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  You have an Indian username to throw people off to think you're not from China. Nice. I've also seen you a lot on youtube so talk about prolific!
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  308.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  " you haven't been going around correcting anything" I literally did that for you.And others here too were mispresenting China's economy. "There's data on their growth rate" Yes, and all the forecast have roughly 3% average annual growth 2023-2040 and below that after 2040. What was even your comment in response to my 3% avg annual growth 2023-2040 "- they've literally ALREADY grown at a higher rate than that,"? What does the past have to do with forecast?
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  309.  @brunchmuncher51  how so? Vague comment without backing it up?
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  310.  @pacjam418  I just got a respond from someone from China in another comment chain in this video and it's the same pattern. I know many of them are paid to be here and I guess the rest are just what they call 'useful id..t". The party and their workers come up with talking points, those useful id..t then just repeat it.
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  311. Great video! I’ve always found Utah to be most odd / different state in the 48 contiguous states! Very Republican with old fashion conservative views but also very progressive on certain issues. The 86% In support of making discrimination against LQTBQ people both surprised me and didn’t. I wasn’t surprised it was the highest share among red states but didn’t surprise me it was second behind only Hawaii! Hawaii is perhaps the other most “odd” or different state!
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  312.  @shinobikyojune1849  Andre likely works for the Chinese government. Their post is exactly like it. They say I am wrong but then don't provide numbers and then they go on to try to defend China with terrible arguments suggesting that China can just continue to build unlimited infrastructure to solve the problem when the facts say that each dollar spent on infrastructure today in China are only providing a return of 25% what it use provide 20 years ago. China is basically spending on many infrastructure projects that are worse for the economy (the cost to build higher than the economic growth it is creating).
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  313.  @J_X999  Funny, the guy states nothing but lies, said I was wrong about the number but doesn't even provide a number (hence he doesn't know), and repeates See See Pee talking points full of obvious bad arguments....but you get made at me for calling him out for his lies. Just say ur a commie. Not true socialist but the commie that is defending China and does the same for other oppressive countries so long as they call themselves communist.
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  314.  @J_X999  Are you the type that can admit China has conc camps of Uyhgurs and is an aggressive govt that is a threat to many of it's neighbors? Or is this where it becomes obvious you are a full on pro SEE SEE PEE type?
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  315. But he pronounced former MLB baseball commissioners last name Bud Selig wrong.
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  316.  @SomeoneFromBeijing  per the video, there isn’t any good evidence that China was claiming those islands in ancient times. More importantly, it’s irrelevant if they did
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  317.  @SomeoneFromBeijing  “some (claims) are ludicrous” yes, like 90% of what China claims. Historic claims don’t matter because even if the claimed it 500 years ago, if they did nothing with it, it means nothing. It’s like US claiming the moon for once landing on it then leaving it. That major reason people care are because 🇨🇳 is a bully and every neighbor of 🇨🇳 worries about what China will do.
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  318.  @aum1040  the insurance companies are complete id*iots yet they make calculations on risk and stay profitable?
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  319.  @aum1040  no, you argued they are complete id*ots and don’t know how to calculate risks yet they make profits by calculating risks
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  320.  @aum1040  you said “they aren’t complete id*ots” but you describe them as such. You aren’t a complete id*ot but have an IQ under 50. So, how do they made solid profits if they can’t calculate risks?
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  321.  @aum1040  “they often lose money” excerpt they make money. That’s why risks management works. They lose some and win some but they need to win more than they lose and that how they calculate risks. “All they have to do to make money is charge more than they expect to pay out”. Except, the competition exists so you simply cannot just charge more. You need to understand risks well enough to compete. It was also discussed in the video.
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  322.  @aum1040  so you’re saying is they lose consistently but win more consistently to make a profit? Therefore, they are calculating the risk well enough? I’ll give you an example even a 5 yr old can understand. Imagine playing a game where you have 52% chance of winning. You play 100 games and you lose a lot over that stretch — 48 times. But you win 52 times which means I’ve The long run, you win more than you lose. Same with the insurance. They have calculated the risks with enough precision to make a profit over the large number of games they are play…in this analogy, the games are customers. So they are going to lose with some and win with others but over their whole customer base, they are going to win more than they lose.
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  323.  @henggou2114  they function like a city state, until bad china came in.
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  324.  @ross7406  KyleCox404 is a Cox sucker
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  325. Video missed one very IMPORTANT event. A Guyana vice president was caught by VICE NEWS as part of Chinas corruption network. Chinese state companies bribing the VP and likely more people
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  326. How meta. A video that is negative about state of news because the news is mostly negative. It was on point just a funny observation
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  327.  @bobdobsin6216  ok, so clear you an extreme pro gun person like OP. Your original comment suggested you are likely actually MORE bias than even OP. What both of you are suggesting is that researchers on Australia gun issue did terrible work — and so did the experts that were part of the peer review. In addition, you are suggesting it’s completely a coincidence that all other gun research has reached similar findings that stronger gun laws and lower gun ownership rates lead to reduced murders. You are also saying that if there is an occurrence of some incident 12 times in 10 years, major reform, than no such incident in nearly 20 years that it’s a pure coincidence despite everything else also supporting it. But hey, talk about bias — you spend a considerably time in post arguing about how guns are needed then used used misleading data to try a prove a point. For example, the defensive gun usage was a poll in the 90’s were gun owning people were simply asked if they had used their gun in defensive situation which can include going to check out a noise outside or in the barn. They don’t have to pull the gun out, or use it, nor stop a crime, nor even have it confirmed. And then you compare it to what? Imagine how many offensive gun usages there — which includes all crimes committed with a gun on the person, a threat to use a gun, or just having a gun when they went to do something.
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  328.  @bobdobsin6216  - “Using the data compiled by the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) of 56,000 families, scholars have estimated that there are, at a minimum, between 65,000 and 80,000 defensive gun uses per year.
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  329.  @bobdobsin6216  - So consider instead the much larger and more reliable NCVS, conducted by the Census Bureau, according to which defensive gun uses in America are not trivial: 65,000 to 80,000 uses each year.” Despite NCVS estimates suffering from false positives and are likely to overestimate the number of DGUs, it is still much closer to the true number of DGUs compared to Lott’s surveys.
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  330.  @bobdobsin6216  OP is clearly bias but you are beyond bias. Regarding the DGU. vs OGU, it’s trying to keep apples to apples comparison. I’m arguing if you use DGU stat to includes people reporting having a gun on or near them to check out a noise, for OGU you would need something like that. DGU stats are of often a joke — does having a gun on you when checking out a noise that turned out to be a raccoon saved one crime from happening? What we do know is that offensive gun use include some 15k murders by gun, nearly 100k shot by a gun, like several hundred thousand people in total shot at (100k who where hit plus thus that weren’t), hundreds of thousands of crimes committed with gun, and an even larger number of total crimes committed while the criminal had a gun on or near them (this would include the several hundred thousand crimes where it’s know they criminal had or used a gun plus many crimes where the criminal had guns but the police don’t know).
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  331.  @bobdobsin6216  and while I don’t have a major on statistics, I’ve read plenty of studies on guns. That’s why I knew about your weak DGU argument. Research after after research has shown the following: 1. Weaker gun laws are associated with increase risks of murders 2. Higher gun ownership rates are associated with increase risk of murders 3. Higher gun ownership rates are associated with increase risk of suicide deaths 4. Higher gun ownership rates are associated with increase risk of mass shootings So, OP might be a statistical major but he can also be heavily biased and might twist this research to favor his narrative. But the fact is that there have been at least two major studies in Australia guns that found the same results and it’s backed up by Similar findings in numerous other research studies on guns that aren’t directly related to Australia — either US research or global research.
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  332.  @DSlyde  ok, so now your argument is that ONE study isn’t enough. That I agree with you. That is one reason I brought up the numerous other studies on the this topic that mostly reach the same conclusions: 1. Weaker gun laws are associated with increase risk of murders 2. Higher gun ownership rates are associated with increase risk murders 3. Higher gun ownership rates are associated with increase risk of mass shootings 4. Higher gun ownership rates are associated with increase risk of suicide deaths In addition, there is at least one other study on Australia which also support the findings in this video. As someone who has spent a large number of time reading gun research Over the past decade or so, I can tell you that whatever problems you with the study, numerous other studies have supported the same findings — a reduction in gun ownership rates and stronger gun laws each are associated with reduction in murder rates and mass shootings.
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  333.  @DSlyde  “peer review is also not the panacea either”. I hope you can also recognized that you as individual who claims to work statices is also not the panacea either. There are also numerous “experts” With such huge bias they are dishonest in their work. All of this is why I brought up the fact that numerous other studies found the same conclusion.
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  334.  @bobdobsin6216  I don’t see your reply or OP either, only in my notification
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  335.  @bobdobsin6216  I’m saying that the DGU asked a very vague question and for some, they are answering honestly but it doesn’t mean much (does checking out a noise that turns out to be a raccoon actually save a crime?) and for others, they are lying or exaggerating. That’s why when men are asked how big their Willy is, it’s often 1 inch biggest in their answer than in reality. As for the “if we are going to count incident where a criminal felt empowered to act because he has a gun (but never used in the commission of a crime)”…I’m starting to think you don’t have the intelligence to understand the argument here. This will be the 3rd time I’ve had to say this — I’m ONLY counting such an example if you are going to use DGU stats that include similar situations but for DGU, such as the raccoon example. I’n fact, it would be like having a gun on you in a fight that breaks out but you never pull the gun out. And to emphasize my point about how these surveys are heavily flawed, if there is a group of 4 people that get into a confrontation and all 4 are carrying a gun, all 4 are likely to answer they had a DGU in that situation and not one will say they were guilty of offensive gun use. People saying they used a gun IN DGU May have actually been the offensive gun use.
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  336.  @bobdobsin6216  “The US is pretty much the only country with high rates of gun ownership and anything like the 2nd Amendment. “ 100% of Crime guns in the US came from the US and were not smuggled in. That’s why the studies show more guns a an weaker gun laws increase murders “If you subtract the crime from gang violence, US crime rates drop down to European levels.” No, per the FBI, 13% of murders are gang related. Another false piece of information from you. As you can tell, I’ve heard all your fake talking points before. You gun 🥜 always use the same falsee arguments
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  337.  @bobdobsin6216  murder is not gun crimes but 70% of murders are by guns. And guns are the most effective way of killing so why did you bring it up? What is the relevance? I seriously think you don’t have the mental ability to have this discussion/debate.
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  338.  @bobdobsin6216  you bring up pools and talked about banning pools as a comparison? You are literally repeating the same gun nut arguments I’ve seen a thousand times. First, no one mentioned a ban on all guns so why not say honest here? Second, when did someone take a pool and commit a crime with it or use it kill people who didn’t want to enter the pool? Regarding cars, I love you brought in up. So you agree it should be treated like a car? Everyone has a license and REGISTERED car? And we constantly added new regulations since about 1970 that made automobile related fatalities drop to about 1/6 what they were at their peak? I’m glad you agree we should treat guns like cars and driving!
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  339.  @Doping1234  People complaining about liberalization of rail after watching a that demonstrated quiet well that liberalization has lead to great growth in rail and even more in air transit.
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