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

  1. Well Chinese manufacturers get preferential treatment in their financial system. If enough countries try to replicate the model China utilizes(TTDM, industrial espionage, preferential treatment for domestic companies in local judicial system in the event of a dispute against foreign company, massive subsidization of land, labor and Capital costs especially in the coastal provinces who were the first movers in attracting foreign Capital with their SEZ's located in close proximity to ports ). Then what makes China the preferred location for foreign manufacturin investment will change over the course of roughly a decade. One advantage other countries dont have is an authoritarian system that can marshall the resources of the state towards any scientific, technological, political and/or economic goals without obstructionist activist morons asphixiating every opportunity available, India being the quintessential example but by far not the only one. Lack of Democracy and Lack of meaningful diversity lies at the heart of China's advantages. When they make mistakes it they are catastrophic(Great leap forward, cultural revolution) When they get it right by god do they get it right.(Opening up under DXP, Tank man's revolt, SEZ policies, HSR expansions, Their multi layered industrial policy encompassing tariffs, infrastructure spending, conducive monetary & fiscal policies and technology development funds + independant labor union/activism suppression ).
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  2. Chinese goods and products are better value for money because they had 20+ years to perfect their manufacturing systems and fine tune their infrastructure and logistical capabilities courtesy of a competent(albiet corrupt) an pro active state(both central and provincial). Mexico doesnt have that but hopefully local provinces in Mexico will take the lead to draw in the foreign capital required to build out their industrial manufacturing capability. Mexico might take another 20-25 years+ to get to where China is today(technologically).
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  3.  @sprucegoose6933  logistics is an imperative part of long term military operations. Think it was Gen. Bradley who said that amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics. that bsing said strategizing is a mentally engaging venture and allows you to prepare.
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  4. ​ @afocus  given their population it would've been sad if they werent the largest manufacturers of vehicles, unlike my home country.
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  5.  @johnathandaviddunster38  Prevention is better than Cure.
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  6.  @dsdf_fdp1858  immigration has long term political consequences, including giving rise to minorities that comes into conflict with the majority. you can see this nearly everywhere on the planet.
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  7.  @OfTheOverflow    Might makes right. You are welcome to cry. Indigenious societies where technologically inferior and that cost them their lives.
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  8. most people either forget or willfully ignore the necessity of a healthy replacement rate in discussions of economic growth.
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  9.  @Ratu_Savu  No misinformation here. they where positively primitive. Adapt or Die. They condemnd themselves to the latter.
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  10. An empire has to be built on top of something. Plus bringing a gun to a knife fight doesnt necessarily encourage the better armed to hold themselves to the agreement. Technological and Scientific superiority/power disparity and all that.
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  11.  @QualityGarbage  because there was an unofficial effort to create a national identity. based on skin colour and it worked the irish and italians were considered to be the "others" but with time a very visible feature of human body was used to create a common even if not loudly proclaim feature of American Identity. America will feel the consequences of multiculturalism in the coming decades.
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  12.  @fatrooster4632  and that laid the foundation for the most powerful nation on earth. racism and sexism are bad for the people experiencing it but not for country if those people that are at the receiving end are in the minority. ethnolinguistically homogenous(or one that strives for it) societies create emduring societies that can weather great adversities, make radical shifts and bestow great gains for the ingroup. case in point are Botswana and Nigeria, China and India, Egypt and Ethiopia, Turkey vs Iran(Persians barely make up half of their country they need Islam to hold it together)
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  13.  @NoodlesExtraMSG  oh come on. you cant be that naive. Under investment is absolutely a factor both due to political reasons and speculation about the impending end of oil.
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  14.  @akedis101  if your plan is to ramp up the share of EV's then the electricity production required cannot be met by renewables alone. Plus not every place on earth is suited for renewables like the US is, And with urrent technology battery tech has a lot of ground cover they are to be a viable support system for renewables.
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  15.  @ac1455  Yes and No. They industrialized quickly but that has very little to do with the 'depression' and "no time for other pursuits'. They urbanized very quickly(under 60 years) with little time for the society to adjust to the rigours of modern life and given that nearly all of the East Asian Miracle states are import dependant in terms of raw materials(including food) they need to maintain a technologically advanced high functioning economy to maintain their standard of living. For that matter even Europe is going through the same thing(they destroyed their gains with ww2 and had to strt from scratch). US/Canada + AusNz are the only exceptions because they are the only ones with even a theoretical capacity to salvage their societies from demographic collapse (if not that then a famine in the event of a global political upheaval most of the resources they need especially inputs for agricultural producr are colocated)
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  16. Ground News is great. Been using their service for a while. Really a must have in current times.
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  17. ​ @ddognine  keeping out undesirables? Like the ones in Skid row ? That seems reasonable.
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  18. High density housing might fashinable to urbanist m9rons but urbanized areas distinctly have lower TFRs(This is true across the globe), In an era of collapsing birth rates its positively stupid to endorse such a policy.
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  19. ​ @CaseNumber00  Ah yes Republicans. They used to be the adults in the room.
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  20.  @NoodlesExtraMSG  big oil hasnt been a thing for quite some time.
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  21. Wokery is peripheral at best in this issue. Did you even watch the video. Wokery isused by investors to cover up their incompetence. You can make the argument that wokery contributed to the failures, no way to verify that but balance of probability suggests new employees with limited exposure/experience are not going to be as good as experienced former employees. Now if you want to question the competency of new recruits, who were recruited based on their DEI credentials as opposed to their skill levels and basic competency, that'd be fair.
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  22.  @Abdullah34610  thats were american comservatives end up losing. either they have more kids or they encourage like minded people into their country. It'll take time for them to adapt.
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  23.  @Abdullah34610  Conservatives are scared losing what little numerical advantage they have. The institutions are controlled by elites who are mostly democrats or left of the spectrum. they dont think they can control the outcome of encouraging immigration in their favour as the kids and the generations that follow could end up being identity based liberals. plus the American education system is trash so its unlikely to act as a glue to cement a new majority or the foundation for a new identity.
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  24. Nothing do with "Jewish" people. You can make the arguments hat short sighted investors were the cause, that would be fair. There is a reason Japanese and Korean Corporations screw their investors, Investors have money, They don't know how to build on top of it.
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  25.  @timberwolfe1645  because "taxes".
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  26. How ?. Brilliant P.R. in all fairness Kagame has potential, but it needs to be seen what he can do and whether he deserves the title of Africa's Lee Kuan Yew.
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  27. A Tswana Majority + Seretse Khama that's Botswana's secret ingredients
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  28. In China there is the CCP, So when bad things happen they leave fast and deep scars, and when good things happen they happen just as quickly and equally effective.
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  29. Funny, when you take away the punch bowl that subsidizes everything, you get a disgruntled populace unable to afford the cost. It gives you the warm feels to deem everything a public good, which while in most cases is warranted to deny the imporatance and necessity of profit is positively and pathetically an Indian bureacratic/political character, and as an Indian i can tell yiu that if you dont prioritize profit, you will bear the cost, When the Chinese bubble bursts there will be hell to pay.
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  30.  @Nelsonwmj  At the cost of sacrificing their mediocrity and inferiority. They didnt get to where they are by jerking off to self righteous intellectual delusions. Govts in all of the Rim states did what they were supposed to essentially an iteration of the prewar german model.
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  31. 13:37 what you need is balance. Also democracy is broadly useless.
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  32. ​ @Abe_Simpson-y4j  poor people. poor in wealth or behaviour ? Its always fun to grand stand until you have a knife or 9mm in your gut. Fingering poor people and lamenting the oppression they face without recognizing base reality is typical 21st century American behaviour.
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  33. ​ @ddognine  You clearly need to get out and touch grass. maybe travel to a country with actual functional mass transit system. Hong Kong would be nice maybe Singapore too ? As for bitching about NIMBYism People in your country fetishize rights over results. Environmental rights indegenous rights, human rights any thing and everything that claws at your heart can be clubbed on to any of the above stated rights and given that rights get primacy over results I am surprised any thing gets done in your country.
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  34. ​ @renaes2807  A njb/alan fisher subscriber. How unbearably predictable.
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  35. Australia and New Zealand are both Islands. They can afford a disarmed public.
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  36.  @Emerald_Forge  Canada ? Sure. Mexico ? An economic partner sure. But thats it. Mexico might not be cohesive enough ti be a political threat but it is a host to National Security threats. Only country in the world from where people can walk to the US and more importantly have a reason to do so.
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  37.  @Emerald_Forge  Also the deserts and mountains in the American south would have been an effective barrier. IF we lived in a preindustrial world.
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  38. ah the demographic cliff. you are spot on.
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  39.  @RAZGR1Z  a bit conspiratorial but true.
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  40.  @Abdullah34610  3/2.5 would be better not every child survives to become a tax paying working adult.
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  41.  @Abdullah34610  "african immigration" everybody would agree that that did more bad than good. on one side they were brutalized since before they landed on american shores and on the other end it created a potentially hostile minority that has every ideological reason to see to the destruction of the republic, that they havent done that so far is just a testament to their disadvantageous position. Also people like Kshama Sawant and Bhaskar Sankara are also either immigrants or sons of immigrants, immigration is a liability on the best of days and on the worst of days a recipe for the destruction of political identities that hold together societies when left unchecked and/or unmanaged.
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  42. this reminds of India's rise. lot of hype but little in substance. you need capable leadership among other things. India was 30 years too late. hope africa fares better
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  43. ​ @aaamint9981  most likely certain type Indians and/or Chinese sympathizers, anti american sympathizers, self described anti imperalists, Jacobin readers. Lot of cognitively challenged groups get funnelled into topics like these.
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  44. but they can provude the capital by way of loans and grants. How do you think S.Korea, China and Vietnam does it ?
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  45. 21:42 And who was it that was responsible for that ?
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  46.  @chukotka6224 ok. Is he wrong ?
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  47.  @Hypogean7  It isnt run by humanity either. But by a very very small subset within the human species in very specific location. I mean Americans are universally scorned, except when it comes to NASA, Then everybody is all about that solidarity.
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  48.  @iqbalindaryono8984  It's easy. Everybody pitched in, Americans paid for everything, As usual.
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  49.  @rickson50  That's a stretch but I'll allow it.
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  50.  @DFranco23  Americans paid taxes. As you can imagine America isnt the only country on the planet. So...
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