Comments by "Link Knight" (@OffGridInvestor) on "How History Works" channel.

  1. You missed the bit where GE almost INVENTED cheap offshore manufacturers. I have heard from MANY high voltage electricians they GE had the junkiest switches and components, you had to wait 6 weeks for everything because it was literally ALL shipped from china NO America warehouses and the chinese would get the order relayed and get ot straight on the next ship NOT plane, the parts were ALWAYS at least double if not triple the price of competitors components with GARBAGE quality compared to competitors and 6 weeks instead of one week. They're a bare existing shell now. Even GE wind turbines are a chinese company who are LICENSED to use the name. Here in Australia we even had GE consumer credit cards! The only thing GE makes NOW is spare parts for their jet engines. Not sure if they even make new jet engines now.
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  2. This is EXACTLY what enron done
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  3. Sounds a bit like Mexican cartels
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  4. Including Kodak itself
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  5. This is the exact thing British sailors would do. Bring one back to put it on the mantelpiece and show it off to family and eventually it would go rotten.
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  6. That's why it went ass up when he left. You talk to any former GE employees who lasted til the end, they all blame the CEO after Jack but they're ALL MBA snobs, real corporate scum types. And then you look at the structure and the next CEO had NO HOPE of keeping the place going in the long term
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  7. Once they nail the high speed mass manufacturing of graphite batteries, lithium will only be in disposable vapes and cheap Chinese junk.
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  8. Luck GoodNow was where it started and realised how dumb that sounded in English so changed to LG. And the were Gold Star of the 90s.
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  9. 3:24 LITERALLY my family. Once knights then farmers from southern England. Now Australia. Still farming.
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  10. That one on the African baby formula sounds VERY similar to Papua New Guinea in the 70s. They were spending ALL their income on formula to use water straight from the river in a place renowned for malaria and tropical diseases and many babies had diarrhoea. Piles died.
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  11. Just apple doesn't have its own standing mercenary forces.
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  12. ​ @cjthebeesknees fun fact. They DON'T MINE significant lithium in Africa, and ESPECIALLY not by hand, and not dying. SOME cobalt is mined there in CHINESE OWNED mines. Lithium generally comes from Australia or the lithium triangle in south America. I should know having a good knowledge of Australian mining.
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  13. Most young people have NEVER HEARD of it. I bet you're the type the misses out all the parts where the indians killed British kids and all, over there during rebellions.
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  14. Alcohol was around since bible days, WELL before the industrial revolution. Your last comment is correct. India ALONE produced 40% of the world's products or raw materials in the British Empire days and china wasn't far behind.
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  15. Coz IT DIDN'T. What drove it waa importing spices and cotton FROM INDIA and in the dutch case, from Indonesia. What also drove it was steel and coal IN ENGLAND and America. ONE slave in the deep south was the cost of a new car. Not enough slaves to run a plantation, JUST ONE slave. You really need to understand more about history and the colonial powers and the British Empire. The British would BUY stuff from india and resell it in Europe. They were getting the majority of their potassium nitrate for gunpowder from the boiled soil in one part of India. Literally 40% of EVERY PRODUCT in the world come from india. With ZERO slavery. Along with a huge percentage like 20 or 30 percent from china. ALSO no slavery.
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  16. The thing is, it likely COULDN'T because of international law involving jurisdiction. This sounds like an EU power trip idea. It is like them charging you with smoking weed in a weed legal state while in the USA or something. It simply ISN'T their jurisdiction to enforce their laws on stuff that happens inside foreign countries. This stuff is as solid in international law as entering a country with passport. Not something that will work sustainably if everyone starts writing their own rules on stuff not done in their country.
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