Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "VisualEconomik EN"
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@paperplane-db8qf - “Palestinians were not any race or religion”
I don’t really disagree with you on this point. When the Ottomans ran things, the various dhimmi communities lived there. Druze were there, some others.
“some religious disharmony, but that’s normal”
The Hamas charter quotes some of that “disharmony” in Article 7 and it is by NOT NORMAL, “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him."
“Then the Europeans and Americans got their own country there”
That is partially true. During WW1, Ottomans sent in their shock troops from Albania, to try to restore order in Palestine, and many of those European Muslims never left.
During WW2, many of Hitler’s disaffected Muslim allies from Europe’s Balkans were sent in as mercenaries into Palestine to keep Israel from standing up a state, and many never left.
The Jews who were there. They got their own country, an opportunity to have self-rule again, after a long time of not having it.
And the Africans, Middle East, Anatolians, Persian/Asians Jews all got their own country there, once they emigrated back to Israel, who invited them. (Much of the pressure to return was because of the widespread publication of Nazi literature through the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and Israel became a safe place.)
The rest of the Palestinians never got their own country, with those Europeans, once Egypt & Jordan invaded the land, and kept Palestinians from standing up their own nation.
“Deir Yassin massacre happened there”
Yep. Arab militias under Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni blockaded the corridor from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, preventing essential supplies from reaching the Jewish population. The massacre happened while trying to break the blockade. Palestinian historian Aref al-Aref counted 117 victims.
Oct 7 massacre was the latest massacre, done by whackos who believe in the Hamas charter and the religious sources it quotes. They killed over 10 times the number.
Honestly, this is a good reason for people to have self-rule by government: people surrounding you are bent on killing you creates terrible effects. Their government should handle the power of the gun, through rule of law, not civilian militias.
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@monoblock. - use H2, CO2 concerns evaporate
Rail is a great technology for moving heavy cargo.
Trains get stuck in traffic jams because a single rail line is half duplex, while roads are built full duplex.
In the US, roads are used heavily at night for cargo, that comes from sea, air, and train ports. If roads are not heavily used in Europe at night, that is an inefficient use, causing congestion problems during the day for normal human travel.
It makes sense that heavy items travel by rail, goods travel by night, normal human transportation occurs during daylight hours when the average person is awake.
Honestly, automobiles by road should be disappearing in another 40 years, for better autonomous options where we can move through the air & not be so tied to roads. We need to look to the 2100’s and not the 1800’s for human travel options.
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@christopherwaggoner7125 - “we subsidize highways” - which are needed for military transport, so people are using military infrastructure.
“Train… running every couple mins or so” - people don’t need to travel in those quantities between cities in places like the US.
Once people are dropped off in a city, there needs to be transport to other places around the city. Where people live in the suburbs, there needs to be transport from homes to a HSR rail. People buy cars to get to the places the rail does not go, so that private infrastructure will not go away. I have to pay to park my car somewhere, to get the the local public transport. The time from 3x public transportation systems vs the time for the car, when I had the choice I chose to just use the car since it is faster & I can come/go when I want.
In the end, this infrastructure is all a black hole. Most neighboring cities are merely 2 hours by car, so why bother to use rail?
Rail is 1800’s technology. Maybe something like light trams & monorails, which are used at airports, where there is constant local transportation. The future will be air, where expensive land will not take up by transportation. The air is 21st century travel, since expensive rail & roads will not need to be maintained.
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@marcbuisson2463 - “absolutely not the case. Decent transit is not a money pit”
Watch the video. Money pit.
“It’s just the people that make the most money out of it…”
Then raise the prices on the tickets, to accommodate the cost, so it is not a money pit. Proper costing encourages innovation. Proper costing also controls pricing of the land surrounding the metro (people do the cost-benefit analysis.)
“In Paris…”
It is already built. I understand standardization benefits. Many short stops where the trains remain in the densely populated area seem to be used well there! Keeping those lines purposefully built, with connections from elsewhere via other technologies was smart.
There is a cost to ripping & replacing railroad ties, rails, wheels, trains, etc. Extremely expensive. A hidden cost that subsidies hide.
We are in the 2000’s. Lighter & less expensive technology that builds 3D (to consume space in the air) can accomplish a lot. Newer technology may be able to add higher degrees of privacy, as well (to discourage pick pockets.)
Maybe other competing older technology can achieve similar goals.
I am a fan of Gondolas, used in places where retrofitting trains is unfeasible. Add more & remove some as needed on always running lines. Low infrastructure & power requirements, cars provide privacy. Redundant cables for safety, like elevators.
Above ground tunnels joining buildings in urban areas with walkways & moving walkways are nice. Used those before. Ticket usage on static & moving walkways for above ground tunnel maintenance.
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Piracy off the cost of Somalia and other North African countries date back much farther than the early 1900’s.
The United States, upon winning their independence in the late 1700’s, disbanded their military, and disengaged from world wide conflict.
Until…
Pirates in North Africa decided to kidnap Americans and hold them for ransom… if the non-Muslim Americans would pay the Jizya, then they would receive “protection” from the Muslim pirates (it was forbidden for Muslim pirates to steal from fellow Muslims… some exceptions were made if the booty was big enough & the target was the wrong kind of Muslim), then Americans would be preserved for a year.
A standing Navy later & creation of The Marines resolved the issue after two successive wars.
Islamic Piracy dates back to sacking caravans in the early days of Mohammed coming to power, in the late 600’s. Somalia became known for piracy afterwards as Islam conquered West to the Maghreb, and started pushing South.
Countries like Libya even had their hand in tolerance of air piracy, during the late 1900’s
Modern Somalia is just another nation in a ~1400 year old history of piracy, on land, air, and sea.
So now, we know why the US has a huge standing Army & Navy & Air Force… it was due to piracy & tolerance of it by Muslim dominated nations of North Africa (because it was a good way to make money, since the days of Mohammed.)
Other examples of land piracy, by sacking the wrong “unbelieving” caravan… well, in Central Asia, a little guy named Genghis Khan… but that is another story.
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Your concerns are valid, but the blame on boomers is poorly reasoned.
Housing permits have been lower than illegal immigration across the southern border since this past election cycle. This has driven the cost of housing higher, for everyone.
The increase in humans from unmetered southern US border has depressed wages for Americans.
Oil pipelines & infrastructure have been blocked, forcing oil to be moved more by train & truck, raising the cost of transportation for goods, and ultimately creating supply line stresses, since the last election cycle.
People are increasingly turning to drugs, which inhibit natural drive & decrease productivity, which reflects in lower wages due to lower efficiency.
Covid lockdowns have resulted in many small businesses going broke, replaced by Chinese products shipped directly to our homes without a middleman, and those small business had formerly been drivers for [minority] employment & living wages.
Boomers leaving the market place, will not likely help 40-something year olds. People who understand how things work & are not strung out on drugs need to be running things as younger people need to learn how it all works so they can take over when the time is right… and we are the age the boomer are today.
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@fatemad4012 - “how can we sustain our modern civilization”
Synthetic fuels are the first step. Carbon capture, hydrogen generation from water, creation of hydrocarbons from there. This can satisfy some of the lightest carbon needs, but heavier carbon needs from asphalt roads to roofing shingles have no solutions.
There are some discussions around turning more food into plastics, the same way we turn food into fuel like ethanol, but these are probably not the best long term plan.
Honestly, we need CO2 capture & escrow. If there is a day when Earth based abiotic production of carbon based resources is exhausted, the only resources left will be what we collect & harvest from the biosphere. Recycling (what a concept.) The air will become the second greatest resource, escrowed CO2 being the greatest resource. If CO2 & exhaustion of carbon from the earth is REALLY an issue, we would be escrowing CO2 (not embedding it into concrete, which can not be easily recovered.)
There is really no end in sight, the earth is huge, but that does not mean we should not conserve what we are harvesting by recycling it, and there is huge pushback by environmentalists for the first step in recycling CO2, through escrow. Recycling needs to be done, to create the aggregate sources through CO2 escrow, which can be harvested on a massive scale for the next step: production of new goods like plastics, vinyl, clothing, carpets, synthetic rubber, 3D printing filament, etc.
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@schumanhuman - “population… not a major factor”
More people needing to live in a house than housing that exists most certainly creates a major factor in prices.
“why doesn’t supply rise to meet demand”
The governments must issue permits.
“US has plenty of land and lots of skyline to fill?”
The governments must issue permits.
“Land prices… monopoly price determines by taxes and bank credit”
As long as people are willing to buy the land at a higher price, the taxes go up since the value goes up.
There are land prices by Detroit are cheap, as miles upon miles of land area was abandoned, and that land is cheap… but there are no jobs. There are also no government services, because the land is cheap & taxes so low.
There must be job opportunities in an area, before people can settle there.
If there are no job opportunities, then there must be a degree of wealth independence, in order for it to be like an extended vacation/retirement.
“If migration is lowered”
Or if housing permits are increased, this would solve the problems
“developers always seek to maximize profits”
As do all families, in order to save for a rainy day.
“views on immigration”
It is simple:
1. Government permit more housing
2. Government limits immigration
Either way, the government has control, they have to do something about it.
“not the key to affordable housing”
Affordable housing is a longer term problem.
Right now, we are just talking about the general inflation in & out of the housing market, caused by some dumb, really dumb, politicians… who wanted to get rich at the expense of the poor & middle class.
This is not rocket science.
There are idiots who think they can increase population faster than what they are permit houses to be built.
Those same idiots think they can do it for 2 years.
Clearly they knew the consequences,
which is why wealthy investors, supporting the idiots politically, were snapping up land everywhere.
I have no sympathy for the Lords who want to own the land and make the serfs suffer with super high rent.
They cause the inflation in the US, now they need to suffer a little, like the rest of the poor & middle class
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@karlmiller5009 - yes, agreed.
The hydrocarbons will never go away, we will only be forced to recycle carbon, better.
Today, CO2 in the atmosphere is the greatest universal reservoir for carbon, to be used.
Every plant creates sugar from water & CO2, plants eat sugar, animals eat plants for sugar.
We synthetically produce hydrocarbons from atmospheric CO2, it is just a high cost. Once catalysts are commoditized, hydrocarbon drilling & mining will no longer be required, anyone can get it anywhere.
Migrating the economy now, from hydrocarbons, just delays the inevitable, of nearly freely available / decentralized energy carriers and decentralized manufacturing.
Printing fabrics & food are an amazing future.
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