Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "The Best-Run Dictatorship in History: Singapore" video.

@NKKhoo_马来西亚人 That’s because America’s comparative advantage is in _innovation_; those “lazy” workers being the same kind who design and give you the photomasks from which the chips are etched through. Actual manufacturing is the least value-added, most price-sensitive, and most substitutable stage of production compared to R&D in the beginning and Sales & Services at the end, hence why the US and other developed economies stay rich despite offshoring its factories. America is only plussing up its chip fabs to keep some production capabilities at least for vital equipment, not to replace every IC in every IOT POS.
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@captlanc China doesn’t think so though. Throughout the dynasties China governs on the assumption that ancestry compels allegiance, and even today this nation-state concept with hard soverign boundaries is considered a foreign barbarism that they shouldn’t follow. We see this in the PRC government’s persistent invasiveness into overseas Chinese community groups. So while Chinese descent doesn’t necessarily mean agreement with the modern Chinese state, just identifying as Chinese does open them up to influence if not coercion by its ruling Party.
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It's been a week and this video keeps aggressively recommended to me. I feel it indicates an alarmingly pro-autocracy editorial stance on the part of Alphabet/Google.
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@sktoh4469 English is the common foreign language among the otherwise Hokkien/Cantonese/Malay/Tamil home speakers, which makes it more akin to the pidgin English and French used in Africa (though not as joyous and expressive)
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