Comments by "Fredinno" (@innosam123) on "PolyMatter" channel.

Singapore has the same problem. They use coastal reservoirs and desalination. Reservoir land can be developed on- it’s just that you need way more treatment to make it drinkable if it is.
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As a Canadian, at this point, being the dumping ground for America’s ‘failed’ migrants isn’t an advantage, it’s a curse. 😂
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@12vtbfx37 There’s entire Wikipedia articles listing the number of official apologies from Japan. The fact that Germany was forgiven from WW2 is the outlier, not the norm. Hungary is still pissed off at losing its imperial borders. The Balkans are still a mess where everyone hates each other. Greece and Turkey still hate each other. Etc.
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@Tyneras There’s also the issue that megaproject costs are nearly impossible to accurately estimate due to factors beyond the control of the planners (eg. delays due to NIMBYs).
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@SaintMartins TBF, that'd also prevent for example, Americans from buying Vacation homes, and it's documented that much of the investment money & property is being funneled though family members living in Vancouver. It also discourages foreign developers from building anything, because every single house would have to be pre-sold or designated for rentals before construction starts.
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@shotelco Because Chinese products have their final assembly in China,p. The supply chain of iPhones go across the entire world several times, making the ‘made in China’ label misleading.
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@simonl4657 No, it doesn’t. It just means less dollars flow out of the system less quickly. There are other ways to get dollars out of the US economy. The dollar system was in place when the US did not have a massive trade deficit. Not to mention that this only affects the segment in China.
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Apparently HBC is trying to relaunch Zellers. HBC isn’t doing great either, but hey, apparently the private equity investors in the US know what they’re doing. 😂
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@UNKNOWN666studios That’s something we need to stop, because it’s depressing wages and per-capita GDP while increasing costs for everyone already living there (including for Housing.)
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@enticingmay435 “Canadians keep voting for this” Me, who voted against Trudeau every election since he was elected: 😩
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@UNKNOWN666studios And productivity is low because of a lack of investment. Because why invest or make governmental changes if you can just bring in more people? It’s the same reason (well one of them) that the high-population countries like China didn’t industrialize until recently. It was always cheaper just to hire more hands than to try something new or build a machine.
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@ravenlord4 If the goal was to try to make Japan militarize, that wasn’t a bad thing…
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@jonathanodude6660 Then those countries would kick them out after they get blamed for everything wrong or because it’s a form of ‘foreign imperialism’. Chile is a bit of an exception to this, and is an example of this sort of thing working. Most of these countries have the opportunity to hire or get competent ministers, but often the country’s simply too broken or corrupt for them to do much.
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@d.c.cheever9258 Germany is fine. They are turning the EU into their internal empire, and that can and will mitigate most of their problems. And the thing is, only France is powerful enough and cares enough about stopping them at this point. The scary part is what happens to Italy and Poland, not what happens to Germany.
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@simonl4657 Even if you need a deficit, you can still lower the deficit. Even avg. -2% of GDP deficit (around that before China joined the WTO) would be half of what it is today. That’s not unsubstantial.
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@slslbbn4096 Bullshit. The Japanese economy grew until the 90s. Then the Real Estate Bubble popped. The Plaza Accord narrative actually originated in Chinese State-run media. Not to mention that Germany was the other major target of the Plaza Accords, and faced no major economic stagnation. To say that the US was responsible for Japan’s decline is to deny reality.
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Zandaroos WFH was probably the best thing to happen to them then. People can move to smaller cities with lower housing costs and work from home or in shared workspaces.
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@mosquitobight Sir, people do not fuck based on Market Conditions.
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@iJettla4 Slaves were primarily made to produce tobacco and sugar, which were not necessary for industrialization. Cotton was also produced elsewhere than the US South without slave labour (slave labor was used because the native whites didn’t want to work in cotton fields). The only theoretical argument you could make is maybe capital, but slavers logically invest the most in improving slave plantations, not factories.
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@iJettla4 The South was the less developed part of the US, by a massive margin. You’d think the American South would have had more industry, or at least comparable to the North, instead of having Dutch disease with slaves. Sure, American cotton helped the North industrialize, but the South got the wealth from slaves too, and got it first (since they’re the ones selling the product). Where did the money go? Not to factories.
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Japan ironically has the higher TFR is East Asia, and Germany can just suck up and assimilate all of the EU’s internal migrants to keep itself alive for as long as possible, especially since the other big EU internal migrant magnet, the UK, is gone.
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@XGD5layer Well, yeah, they hadn’t been building them for so long, is it really shocking costs rose higher than expected?
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@cetriyasArtnComicsChannel The issue is that then you have to get approval multiple times, and people are going to call ‘corruption’ when you don’t go with the lowest bidder because you don’t trust them.
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@jeffreysmith4586 Dragon 2 was based on Dragon 1 which was supposed to be capable (theoretically) of carrying humans as per the original CCargo contracts. Starliner is also bigger and more capable (land landings and 7 max passenger count.) Also, even in NASA, PPPs have failed- Kistler Aerospace was chosen originally for CCargo, only to go bankrupt due to incompetence. SpaceX almost went bankrupt as well. Studies have been done on PPPs in general, and they’re generally either mixed or negative in opinion. The benefit of cost-plus is that the government has more leverage vs the private contractor.
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Most Latin American countries are food exporters. They’ll be fine. Africa, on the other hand, is fucked. Middle East too.
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@jonathanodude6660 Who is ‘we’? The USA\West? China taught everyone that if you do that, there’s no guarantee they won’t become a threat later on. Also, the people who lost their jobs to outsourcing got pretty pissed. Places like Mexico/Columbia or Eastern Europe are exceptions- the FDI pipe is still open to them, as they’re peripheral nations to the Western sphere.
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@luxy9530 Well, I mean, yeah, so far it's relied on the forceful push by a leader that's on her way out. The ineptitude of the EU as it is now (as you pointed out) provides an massive push for either one of 2 things happening: 1. Centralization around (presumably German) authority, which is what a more Federalized EU with less veto rights would look like. 2. Dissolution. Considering Brexit was a nightmare, and how much Germany has invested to keep the EU afloat, (since the loss of the trade and currency bloc would be economically disasterous) the former seems more likely than the latter. Unless populists become dominant in the EU 'core.' But that requires forcing everyone to accept losing veto rights and give up even more power to the EU.
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@SocietyKilledTheUnicorn Afghanistan fell pretty quickly-shockingly so, in fact. The issue is holding it. There IS a reason the country has been in some form of civil war since the Soviet Invasion.
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Jem TS TBF, to immigrate into a country, you first need a place to live.
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Sophia B. Let’s be honest. If a Canadian bought that mansion, it would still only be like 3 people living in it in all likelihood. Point Grey is pretty much just old folks and money.
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aoeu256 There are jobs in Vancouver- if you’re a tech worker.
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Michael Poles There are physical limitations to how much stuff you can put in a certain space. 400km/hr is impractical on street-level arterials unless you ban pedestrian crossings on every road due to required deceleration. Not to mention deceleration required to turn without subjecting passengers to excessive G -forces.
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@waluigi3807 US has an average higher birth rate across the last 50 years, and Europe is unlikely to lash out in the same way as China. It’s also less troubling because Europe has been in permanent crisis since 2008. It’s future trajectory is much more certain.
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That’s still a patent...kind of, and doesn’t solve the problem of excessive patents being filed.
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Vinietzsche They do have a choice in Brave New World though. You can exile yourself from society.
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Banarok Lionrage Most other hight tech manufacturing have high development costs. For example, if someone makes a new type of airplane.
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To be fair, neither Edge not IE is on Mobile devices, so it's not a fair comparison. Edge in particular is Windows 10-exclusive, reducing market share even more. Same thing with Bing. Granted, it doesn't do well on Mobile devices, but then again, most are Android. Not entirely a fair comparison.
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@ronschlorff7089 Ukraine says hello.
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