Comments by "Merlin Geikie" (@merlingeikie) on "What is at stake for global luxury brands if Hong Kong protests continue?" video.

  1. Westerners!....... Don't think for a moment that this is a CCP problem, ... no not so..... not a Chinese problem per se, at all. What we see here, is what will always happen when very powerful states, come into being.... Central planning, central control, codification of decisions, and the inevitable centralised garnering of people's resources via taxation lead to a cacophony of powerful interests, focusing on a tiny goal. Western countries, like Australia, USA, the Americas and Europe north and south etc have grappled with this growing problem, all this time, pretty much unsuccessfully..... When a state becomes powerful enough, its leaders move from being covert Narcissists to overt Narcissists, and the decline to psychopathy can be very rapid. Look out and be warned. Big states, centrally controlled bureaucracies and the gathering of vast taxation resources, inevitably leads to these results. Nothing will stop this form of extreme conflict, except for various reset scenarios.
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