Comments by "thomas grabkowski" (@thomasgrabkowski8283) on "PolyMatter" channel.

  1. Because back then, birth rates were above replacement and population was growing exponentially, without the technology to support a population as large as today's technology level would enable us to support. Today, we run into the opposite issue of having persistent below replacement birth rates and how in the future, there wouldn't be enough young people to pay off the pensions of retirees
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  2.  @containedhurricane  East Asian countries make it almost impossible to immigrate there. They make it extremely hard to get their version of green card, and make it close to impossible to become a naturalized citizen without any familial connections to their country, meaning vast majority of the few foreigners living there have no viable option beyond being temporary worker or expat
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  3.  @ravinchowdhury5215  USA has immigration, and brings in young immigrants. China doesn't, eg in 2050, median age of white Americans will also probably be closer to 49 than 43
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  4. Well western countries are showing India the formula of becoming wealthy
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  5.  @nersharific813  It also differs as it was an attempt carried out by a group of civillians rather than military(self coups are generally when military helps leader illegally seize in power and coups are when military illegally overthrows leader)
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  6.  @ridingweeb4801  yes you do, the definition of homelessness is not having a permanent place of residence. You give them somewhere to live, and boom, they have a permanent place to live. Thats why singapore, by having hbd housing, barely has any homeless, despite being expensive. Plus, I would rather be homeless in singapore, than in a western city like nyc, since its warm all year round, and you don't have a chance of freezing to death in the streets
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  7. Well birth rates in India are dropping regardless
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  8. The thing is western standards have made the west wealthy. He thinks India should apply them if it wants to escape poverty and become wealthy
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  9. Yep and when women get married, it's also a cultural expectation in India for women to stay home and be housewives
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  10. Like for example, now you have to pay off college debt when that previously would've gone towards saving up for a house
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  11. Few decades ago in the west actually
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  12.  @BSPBuilder  Asians are very nationalist people thats why. Plus their culture is unique and hard to understand by outsiders and their language is very hard to learn, which deters immigrants
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  13.  @JEBavido  Yet Houston is still a sprawling city where you need a car, and things tend to be far away, and mostly made up of single family homes. Only US city that's similar to Japanese city in terms of zoning is NYC
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  14. Considering Indian households tend to be 1 income, with only the man working and he's also expected to not only support wife, but also 3 generations(his children and parents)
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  15. Well requiring citizenship to work in government is the norm in vast majority of countries
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  16.  @pawl23  Eastern Europe grown because they dropped communism and adopted capitalism. Again, that growth is gonna fizzle out quickly with declining population
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  17. USA is replacing them with immigrants. What a lot of American nationalists are concerned about is how America's demographics will change rapidly with replacement
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  18. Depends on when they came. It's only the case if they came before the 1880s
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  19. It's because Japan's population has declined significantly from its peak, thus their housing supply, is designed for a significantly larger population than now
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  20. US has immigrants, China does not
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  21. NYC does not have typical US/Canada style zoning and yet is among the most expensive housing
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  22. And its those remote villages where Japan's population decline is hitting hardest
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  23.  @NeovanGoth  Well both Japan and Italy are struggling with shrinking populations and have housing supply designed for a higher population than now
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  24.  @goclick  And they tend to be located in the Rust Belt region, which is seeing population decline and has a housing supply designed for a higher population than now, similar to Japan
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  25.  @daeseongkim93  Yep, very difficult to move there and almost impossible to become a naturalised citizen there I've heard
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  26. Furthermore, Canada's birth rate is significantly lower than US and population significantly older, thus there's a greater urgency to have immigration mitigate the population aging problem
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  27. bing is popular in china, since google's banned there
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  28. and at the same time, solved homelessness
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  29.  @Notevenmad955  Europe's birth rates are worse than the US
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  30.  @Ryan-093  It incentivizes companies to have 9 staff as companies with 10+ staff are subject to much more stringent regulations than companies with 9
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  31. Well it's different urban planning practice. Japanese cities are far older than US cities, and built long before the car thus things need to be close by to houses. Furthermore, in the 20th century, Japanese suburbs, instead of being built around freeways, were built around train lines(post WW2, Japan invested in trains instead of cars like the US), thus continuing to build dense neighbourhoods. Furthermore, Japan's population density as a whole is far higher than the US, and full of mountains, thus they have to build things packed together
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  32.  @MysteriousFuture  Chinese today tend to live in tiny apartments. They don't have room for large family
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  33. Problem is western countries are growing old too
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  34. China basically dug themselves into demographic hole with one child policy which collapsed their birth rates
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  35. By a lot
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  36. India's divorce rate is low because divorce is largely not accepted in Indian culture
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  37.  @kyh148  Suburbs in Europe and Japan are still dense and made up with apartments rather than single family homes. Plus, they are built around railways rather than highways
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  38.  @zUJ7EjVD  Well housing costs are a lot more affordable in Houston than in most other major cities. Why it has fewer homeless and higher home ownership rate
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  39.  Zaydan Alfariz  Brunei is oil country. More cars=more oil revenue
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  40. Well much lower percentage of rapes are reported in India compared to US
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  41. difference is immigration. USA has tons. China has barely any
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  42. That, plus the tax rates are significantly higher in Camada than US
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  43. Singapore has immigration unlike China
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  44. but only 9% of China is ethnic minority so does not make much impact
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  45. On the bright side, America's birth rates are still significantly better than developed countries in Europe and East Asia as well as our northern neighbors Canada
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  46. yes
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  47. Yep, far higher percentage of immigrants in the US are illegal compared to Canada where there aren't many illegal immigrants and vast majority are legal
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  48.  @sen9159  no, la does
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  49. Well funnily enough, Russia's birth rates are significantly worse than America
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  50. India's birth rate is declining now too
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