Comments by "Alexander Philip" (@alexanderphilip1809) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. Have to really appreciate the variation of subjects you select. Keep up the excellant work.
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  2. 8:24 Thats what I'd like to call the Indian Experience. Losing progress is kindof our thing. Smart/driven people suffocating under a dysfunctional ideology driven system.
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  3. answered is the not the right word. Answered would be when that dependance has been reduced. Whether this policy produces the desired result remains to be seen. Expecting PLI to be panacea for all the problems plaguing the manufacturing sector is short sighted and ill informed. Having a policy in place is not the same as producing desired results. Implementation and market environment are all important.
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  4.  @harshjain3122  democracy is not entirely to blame here. But yiu are broadly correct, from Singapore to South Korea to Taiwan and even Malaysia had politcal continuity under UMNO, that kind of continuity can establish consensus amongst the ruling elite and thats not counting foresight. In India forget foresight when the we hell have we had consensus on anything of importance ? Labour laws? Regulatory capture by organised labour, Remember the suit boot ki sarkar crap that the opposition pulled, Land reforms ? Agri reforms look the cluster fck that is NCR.
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  5. Its rather depressing that he has been posting for nearly four years and despite that his subscriber base is less than the 100k mark. The subjects he has chosen are highly interesting plus the insightful and relatively objective analysis of topics makes one question the wisdom of YT's algorithm.
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  6.  @yohaneschristianp  farmers "feel" neglected sure. a sector oversaturated with labour. their feelings are an iron noose around the country. Not every farmer should be a farmer the fact that they are proves the shortcomings of oir educational and business environment. The labour tied up in agri should've been put to good use in manufactuting if the labour laws and physical/power/edu infra where in place. but alas this is India.
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  7. If I may I'd like to suggest a couple of video ideas. -S.Korean economic policy from Rhee govt till Park Chung He's death. -Samsung Electronics's rise and their early struggles(especially what compelled them to be export focused) Also - Different policies and tools employed by PRC after Deng's decision to open up and their effects on China's economic and technological capabilities. - Why India's Planning commission failed while it Planning bore fruit in places like Taiwan, S.Korea, France and China. I feel like you are the only serious youtuber who'd have any interest in these topics. They are broad and long but very intriguing. Again these are just suggestions. hope you might at some point in the future see this and decide to do a video on atleast two of them.
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  8. You've taken up a lot of topics that i've found to be extremly interesting, this being one amongst them. Explainations of TSMC's creation was really compact and informative, you briefly mentioned national champions in one of your other videos and really appreciate it if you would do more on Japan's and South Korea's economies preferably the zaibatsu and chaebol models. P.S- Loved the one on TSMC and their dutch supplier.
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  9.  @Fast_studyIQ  um not really. Nothing is on the table on the commercial level. Most of it is for research purposes especially considering even the most modest of our modern phones use less than 24nm config. Its really pathetic.
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  10. Tried multiple times, Failed patherically might i add multiple times.
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  11.  @excitableboy7031  how ill informed are you expecting PLI scheme's to work in every damn sector which is typical Indian one size fits all sectors b.s, Nation states across the planet are pouring in billions to subsidize this industry despite already possessing superior infrastructural and highly skilled educated workforce (especially in the STEM subjects), all the Nations that have strong presence is semiconductor sector rank highly on the PISA ranking, India is not even in the running, NEP is supposed to change things but I reserve my judgement till i see some genuine improvements on the ground.
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  12. Should have expected that. But i didnt.
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  13. This channel is one of those niche little corners where you can get clear and objective insights into the topic without any political or overenthusiatic presentation, Very matter of fact. Love it.
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  14. 13:45 whoa there even when the govt tries to inculcate enterpreneurial spirit(however you define it). Indian civil society is pathalogically against capital in any form. strikes and lockouts are a part and parcel of our country. I blame the elements in the Independence movement that drove us down this path and the later on the political masters that reinforced and perpetuated the kind of idealistic stupidity that still permeates every nook and crany of the country's governance and economic structures.
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  15.  @ashishpatel350  that's a fundamentally flawed arguement which holds strength if you assume only government can invest in infrastructure, imposing customs duty on any aspect of smeiconductor industry that requires boat loads of capital thereby increasing the cost associated with is is only something you'd expect from India where everything is inferior to the state's power, that kind of obsession with getting a power trip out of making govt policy is amongst the reason why india is what it is, despite its potential.
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  16. 10:16 source of strength for any sector of a nations economy. After 60+ years we Indians are yet to learn this.
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  17.  @adithyadanaj9768  yeah right. I agree with what EODB measures but ranking 63rd is not a goddamn achievement especially considering that the index only measures the performances of a handful of tier one regions. Modi has done some groundwork but expecting him to carry the nation into prosperity is kinda idiotic considering the legislative and structural deficiencies wielded into the Indian system. Expecting India to get this right is like expecting Frankenstein's monster to behave like a normal human being.
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  18. ​ @rajhshah96  That "imperial" behavior is what contributed to the industrial advancement of East Asia and South East Asia. While the paragons of anti-imperialism like India, S.Americans and Africans are poorer economically and industrially. Disassociative Ideological Self righteous stupidity in state policy has its consequences. Even Taiwan's anticolonial instincts were grounded and tempered by their interests and ground realities..
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  19. no system is perfect.
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  20. This also reminded me that even if everything else comes together, there is likely never goikg to be a fab unit in India like In china or Malaysia. We're already pretty regressive when it comes to the hardware businesses, add in the water factor and its an absolute no go.
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  21.  Hans Otto Kroeger Kaethler  icbm and nuclear technology is much more widely available. from Soviet scuds to Pakistans nuclear program that formed the basis of NKoreas technological basis. you are comparing apples and oranges. they have a bomb, because the means for it came from sources that were widely distributed and not entirely within US's sphere of influcence.
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  22.  @hankeat  that is sadly true. It takes a special kind of drive to push forward. Most cultural groups lack that, Singapore was lucky to have the right leadership at the right time in history pursuing the right policies(atleast the most forward thinking and functional policies) in society that valued certain aspects of the cultural triats of its dominant majority with a deep understamding of its own geopolitical conditions.
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  23. 4:35 if only people stopped fetishizing green energy as a genuine replacement for thermal plants. We still havent solved the storage question.
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  24. Obligatory comment for the Algorithm. Come on people let this man hit a 100k before this month ends. We owe him more than a million subs for making videos on subjects varying from macroeconomics, economic history to the minutiae of semiconductor industry and its history in east amd south east asia. topics that interact with each other in ways that cant be explained by your avg youtube edu content creators. Cheers in advance for hitting a 100k.
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  25. not enough. better nations have tried and failed.
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  26. That would make for an excellant addition to the Soviet playlist.
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  27. My personal fav. quote is still the one about the cat.
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  28.  @Asianometry  it really is.
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  29.  @M3ganwillslay  All are nations that have either significant Indian diasporas or strong ties to the Indian govt.
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  30. PPL dissolved in 1989. Plus the all or nothing mind set is what causes economic degradation or social unrests. socialistic legacy is firmly tilted in the negative direction owing to the singular fact that inorder to make a living socialtists has to embrace capital or settle for less, most ideologues might agree for that but all you need is a few ambitious ones to set a trend, I say this as somebody living in a subnational state that voluntarily elected a communist(dem. socialist) regime into power, unemployment among the educated was so high that exporting cheap labour to capitalist countries is how we maintained our "high standard of living". So yeah setting up a well funded educational and healthcare system that is accesible without shouting death to capitalism would be the functional choice like the Scandanivians or to a lesser extent the Singaporeans (their's is a more sustainable in the long run), but everybody has their ideological delusions and every generation pays the price for it.
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  31. Also what happened during the rule of socialist regimes as you put it is what happens when any nation institutes functional reforms both int the economic and social spheres in service of development. Given that economic activities are restricted under socialist regimes gives them more reason to make sure that peope are with the program that means seeing to their basic needs, even if they cant fulfill their aspirations. But hey when you are born into nothing, something is is always better than nothing, thats something i can personally appreciate, especially the part about access to education is an absolute plus in favour of socialiatic regimes but only as long as ideological/propaganda classes dont have a presence in educational institutions.
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  32.  @karenishness1  if he's right, He's right. No need to get salty about it.
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  33. The level of detail, dept and variations in his subject matter is what gets me.
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  34. true. and the nature of India's intellectual civil society makes it nigh impossible.
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  35.  @ravishbhasin7041  a single accident caused that event, the inability to adapt to the circumstances following an adverse setback revels the flaws in your organisational strucuture, In India's case it it did, calling me dork wont change that nor will it give your arguement weight, You dont read much do you ?
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  36.  @jarjarbinks3193  you dont know what you are talking about Ganges ranks at the top of the most poluted rivers on the planet. Even by the most conservative estimates its still in the top 5.
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  37.  @fwefhwe4232  oh stfu. Fetishizing about the past doesnt change fact that the europeans and the muslims before them ripped us a new one and literally dominated our land for 500+ years.
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  38. really appreciate your efforts man.
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  39. Insightful as always. Thank you.
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  40.  @arienai_  Manufacturing in the UK is hard since that would require discipled workers and manageable/cordial worker-management relations. Brits did a great job of exporting socialist/unionist paraphernalia across their former colonies, now deal with the consequences. British left is deeply hostile when it comes to re-industrialization by endorsing dysfunctional policies and the British right is outright apathetic. Setting aside Brexit which was necessary there are few advanced economies that have wasted their potential and refused to plan for the future as much as UK.
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  41. They woupdnt have survived the competition with the Americans of they'd shifted stance and opened up their economy. Look at what the chinese did, they knew staying in power was more important than fetishizing over ideology. One of the fundamental drawback of a a purely socialist system is its obsessetion with equality, it great on paper but it takes an ever present if not overbearing state which in itself is not a bad thing if the country is small and geographically somewhat secure but USSR was neither small nor secure, it had a multicultural society spread across the country and terribly hostile climate that required costly infra to maintain, the problem with socialist govts is that it often steals tech from the rest of the developed world and markets it as it own. As to why the soviets fell well you might wanna look at why the chinese didnt, that itself answers the question. Also India is still a democratic socialist(we can argue on the semantics ofcourse) country as stipulated by its constitution and its significantly better of than it was before collapse of the soviets.
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  42. I'll say this again. Yours is a criminally undersubscribed channel.
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  43. To think that Fred Terman was also involved in guiding the building of technical human capital base in S.K is just wild. That man was a gem.
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  44. This is something that always made me wonder especially with TSMC having had to spend extra for it when they faced a shortage in supply.
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  45.  @Asianometry  "reasonably competant" despite all its flaws this is something most critics of china fail to notice, the generation that lives on in the west is mostly oblivious to the chaos and trauma the non western scoieties endured, so everything and anything that these non westerm states pursue is seen as evil/fascistic(in all honesty they are) but they fail to understand why, the injection of political correctness into public discourse has diluted the wests capacity for critical thinking primarily in the political sphere.
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  46. I am hopeful of India's prospects but not optimistic given the nations track record.
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  47. idealistic stupidity vs. qualitative superiority. survival of the fittest at its finest. wont last though. once US's Muslim pop. out numbers the Jewish diaspora, its just a matter of time before Israel's biggest support dries up. Same goes for Israeli Jews in Israel proper. Dwindling numbers-> reduced numerical superiority-> increased potential for civil unrest due to the presence of a numerically dominant minority. Key lesson: Never become a minority. South African whites, Aboriginal Austrailians, Maoris in New Zealand, N.Am natives are all living lessons.
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  48. also to your comment. it does. they are what they are because they know what they have to do in order to survive. introducing self righteous and idiotic ideologies into regions that rely on brute strength and cunning to survive is like forcing a gender studies grad into an ISIS camp, prospect of survival decreases exponentially. people in the west living their perpetual security would never understand that. That being said Israel is on thge clock. They need to build depth as much as possible before things chang permanantly. You might not know this but rights dont matter never did but needs do, they are all that matters, its a question of who can guarantee once needs. When you pit the needs of one group vs another you get conflict, you cannot solve that with idealized stupidity being your prime driving force.
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  49. the only disappointing thing is your videos dont get the kind of views that they should.
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  50.  @ravishbhasin7041  whether you like it or not while the NH's are economically vital rail and maritime transports are still far more cost effective by an order of magnitude. India has a huge coastline but very few rivers that are commercially navigable all year round without expensive investments, The Chinese have Yangtze. Ganga is a filthy mess and has limitations in matching the Yangtze, The Americans have the Mississipi and its tributaries, The Germans have the Rhine, Elbe, Danube, Oder and many to canel to match, The French and British have the Siene and Thames respectively, these rivers were crucial to the successful industrialisation and subsequent development of their societies. Doesnt mean you cant industrialize without navigable rivers, it would just be harder to muster the requisite capital to fund the expensive infra and organisational/institutional setups that would be required down the road.
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