Comments by "ricardo kowalski" (@ricardokowalski1579) on "PolyMatter" channel.

  1. Yes... and these are the "smart ones" in universities, investment funds and political lobbies
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  2. Yes. This is the issue Everything else is a red herring Respectfully
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  3. Sealion was a bad idea, invading Taiwan would be a terrible one. Add loitering munitions flying over the beaches and it goes from terrible to unspeakable horror
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  4. 4:10 "without recognition no loans" The lesson here is that loans are NOT required. That recognition and international money result in greater corruption and graft. Leave these people alone. They are doing much better than "recognized" countries. They do not need recognition.
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  5. Accuracy is not a requirement. Fear is the metric. Randomness and "errors" only help that goal The STASI did this without any computers, decades ago. It can be be done, it is really easy to do.
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  6. dishonest video 1:27 the graph is about not public universities 5:49 the graph is about public funding for state run universities oranges and apples, presented as equivalent and interchangeable, to justify the red herring of the day
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  7. Why Haiti is effed? "Haiti ranks globally 129 out of 129 in the 2021 International Property Rights Index, based on a score of 2.64 out of a possible 10. " It is not because of a "weak" government. It is because of government meddles into everything, so there is no incentives
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  8. This is good data It still only scratches the surface. The rise of china's cheap labor 1970s coincides with the stagnation of wages in the US and Europe. The huge labor pool in China affected wages everywhere. Effectively China's labor was a price cap. In just the same way as a more expensive chinese labor pool today will rise the prices of labor everywhere, the cap is moved somewhere else and it is much smaller in size What is needed is a quantitative evaluation of global labor demand, labor availability, and then track inflation adjusted prices in the 1950 to 2000 period. Further insight can be gained by tracking container ship tonnage and traffic (as a proxy for globalization) One of the better videos of this channel
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  9. 6:40 " a school largest expenses are personnel, many of which are tenured" FALSE. The largest share of personnel are ADMINs, not professors There is scope for firing Admins and lowering cost. Ask WHY this lever is not pulled. From FORBES A recent report I authored found that on average, the top 50 schools have 1 faculty per 11 students whereas the same institutions have 1 non-faculty employee per 4 students. Put another way, there are now 3 times as many administrators and other professionals (not including university hospitals staff), as there are faculty (on a per student basis) at the leading schools in country. 12:18 "bloated administrative budgets" they have no shame in contradicting themselves. But they put the falsehood at minute six, and bury the reality way into the end
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  10. What Timor-Leste should do is have Singapore manage the country for 50 years. Let the profesionals do it.
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  11. It is not the oil. Norway has had none of these problems It is the political system, and the culture of worshiping the "caudillo" It is a LatAm thing. If you try to make a country out of slaves, you can drown them in oil, but they will still be slaves En guayuco, pero con Internet 😁
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  12. True that. And the countries that escaped the middle income were wealthy enough to subsidize local agriculture, to avoid it from disappearing completely. China STILL has a large agrarian left over population. So large that it cannot be subsidized into middle income, much less high income. So China will have increased tension between rural agricultural and urban manufacturing sectors of society.
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  13.  @tobene  Once again... why are you assuming "comprehensible" is a requirement? Governments are by and large NOT concerned with accuracy, correctness or comprehensiveness. Just go read a government budget or audit. The amounts that "disappear" into thin air should clear this up to you.
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  14.  @tobene  once again. It matters not if they target the "right" or even a "real" person. Fear is created even if a 80yr old grandmother gets her head blown off in a church for a terrorism warrant. The SCS is not for tracking "suspects", it is NOT about law enforcement, not about justice, not about prevention. It's about widespread fear.
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  15. the root of the problem is cultural The spanish legal system is arranged around (the king, the government) giving you "permission" to engage in a business The english tradition is a "registry" at best, but you never ASK or GET permission With that as a base, the people accept that governments can tax and threaten individuals at all levels of economic activity.
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  16. 11:30 who was the ghost american president between Obama and Biden? The auto-censorship and TDS is strong in this channel.
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  17. 15:50 public takes a more aggresive posture? But you just said that 58% already felt safe ( 15:00 ) So which one is it? Is the public misled into feeling "safe"? Or is the public scared stiff to take a more aggressive posture? Pick one The contradictions in the content are becoming more common. The production value is still high, but the content is slipping Extra funny note: This critique of "invencibility" was missing when for the last three years politicians and unelected bureaucrats were screaming "if it saves ONE LIVE"... guess we will never see that video
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  18. Min 3:26 "alert criminals"... so anyone who works, is productive and wants to keep what they have earned is a criminal? Peak marxism
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  19. Exactly. It is deliberate government policy. Let the brain drain continue, have a stable poor political base at home. Skim off taxes from the remittances. AND blame it on "capitalism"!!! It is well designed explotation system BY THE GOVERNMENT.
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  20.  @divinechariot5542  international recogniton is not even mentioned in Maslow's pyramid of needs. So no... Not needed.
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  21.  @Protont  pffff. If they want to avoid a take over what they need is guns. Plenty countries had "recognition" and were invaded. Just ask the poles.
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  22. This cry me a river video skips the part where Petion took over the most productive and richest country in the world at the time. Forgets that sugar trade was the Apple and Facebook of the era. Petion had enough money to send to stir trouble makers in other countries. Not against France, mind you. Haiti is poor because from day one the government has attacked private property and wasted any wealth it can get it's totalitarian hands on. "Petion provided shelter and food for Bolivar and the Venezuelan families and soldiers who had traveled with him after his recent defeat by the Spanish. They recuperated and regrouped under the care of Petion. According to records, Petion provided, among other supplies, 4,000 rifles, gunpowder, food and a printing press. He also contributed to Bolivar with Haitian military strategists and veterans from the Caribbean nation’s revolution to accompany him on his April 1816 expedition."
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  23. If the government places no taxes on business, and low taxes on the individuals, then who is in "power" is irrelevant to the common citizen. Elections are important only because there is a large pool of public money to steal, and a large number of thieves trying to get their hands on it. The Singapore government is so efficient that it has become irrelevant: streets are clean, public schools are good, and they do all this with low taxes and little cumbersome regulations to business. Remember the fable about the frogs asking for a king? Well, imagine if after the wood had splashed the frogs were smart enough to say "A king that does nothing is better than a king that abuses power". If you vote for a more "active" government... YOU WILL GET "more government".
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  24. India and China cannot agree on a border, how can they agree on a common currency? The very idea of "BRICs" is laughable. And that was before the R screwed up
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  25. The author has deep contradictions. At 3:45 it places the blame on "capitalism"... but at 6:50 it's the government acting as broker "to avoid a revolution". Can't have it both ways, you cannot say this ia a capitalist evil when it is an openly declared government policy. Even the house helpers are "forbidden to leave"... guess who stops them? The GOVERNMENT is.
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  26. Min 8:10... only inside the private "islands" there is progress. The state-lovers have had the rest of the country and the WHOLE of Mumbay to experiment... and it is ALL dirty and floods. So the correct lesson is: more private development, less red tape, eliminate permits and you will instead of "islands" have a complete, continous "continent". Private sector will build for every price range. It is actually the cost of government corruption that prevents cheap housing from developing
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  27. "social stigma"... ?
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  28.  @ericbashir7275  right? I sometimes believe nobody remembers Kafka! There is a joke: two romanians are discussing what is happiness🤔❓ . One says that hapiness is health, travel and a family. The other one says that happiness is being awakend at 3am by knocks on the door and a police man shouting : Franz Morovich, you are under arrest!!!....and shout back: Franz Morovich lives next door! 😁 Most people saw this in the Fifth Element, as entertainment, not a remainder. Regards
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  29.  @MariaRodriguez-dx6sm  no it is not. leaders are extracted and come from the same people they are stealing. It is a myth that the "leaders" are different (better or worse) than the habitants Venezuelas are descendants of slaves, the civil wars decimated economy and population, the hard working inmigrants were mocked because... they *worked*. When mocking was not enough, they were expropiated ALL WITHTHE APPLAUSE OF THE "people"
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  30. @A B Yes... but the average inhabitant ALSO doesn't care. They lack an ideology, they just want to avoid work.
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  31. 5:20 Government plan "all organic nation" Economic reality JA JA 13:40 "exposes weak governance" NOOOOOOOOO Exposes GOVERNANCE . period. It was never "weak", it had guns!!! It had "international recognition"!! This is what governance DOES... create poverty. Stop pretending or insinuating there is "good" or "strong" governance
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  32. ahhh the joys of government intervention.
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  33.  @Steyr32  so the auhor can cherry pick and say haiti had no "recognition"... but fails to mention what was the destiny of the sugar export money? Also, he fails to explain what happened to the sugar industry. Same as the cubans.
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  34. Bo hooo Haiti debt By Marc Lacey March 22, 2010 MEXICO CITY — Haiti received a boost to its balance sheet on Monday when the Inter-American Development Bank, meeting in the Mexican resort city of Cancún, agreed to forgive $479 million of the country’s $1.2 billion in foreign debt.
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  35. Retail is hard
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  36. The very fact that the ACLU concerns itself with what is happening in another country is a travesty All these organizations are minding and meddling into what is not their business, while pretending to be spokepersons of my interests
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  37. you took all the points from the video, but you also fell for the scam it presents How can the population accept the tuition increases? It doesn't. It didn't. It became government organized "student loan" that are an un-legislated transfer of public money to these universities. THAT is what has to be discussed! Respectfully
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  38. Government intervention causes un-intended consequences? Who could have guessed!😂
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  39. 9:40 buy privileges And there it is, in a nutshell, the whole case for anarchism 10:30 "shower employees with perks" This is a HUGE contradiction. No Google employee would consider food, electricity and gas as "perks" These are perks only in a society SO POOR that it is closer to Orwell's 1984 (see below) If China is still so poor that food is a "perk"... it means the GDP numbers are fiction. ========= In practice the needs of the population are always underestimated, with the result that there is a chronic shortage of half the necessities of life; but this is looked on as an advantage. It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship , because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another. By the standards of the early twentieth century, even a member of the Inner Party lives an austere, laborious kind of life. Nevertheless, the few luxuries that he does enjoy his large, well appointed flat, the better texture of his clothes, the better quality of his food and drink and tobacco, his two or three servants, his private motor-car or helicopter-- set him in a different world from a member of the Outer Party , and the members of the Outer Party have a similar advantage in comparison with the submerged masses whom we call 'the proles'. Title: Nineteen eighty-four Author: George Orwell
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  40. The CCP is not afraid of tech or robots. The ch1nese people are.
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  41. 10:23 It is not lack of "state"... Piracy flourishes not because there is absence/presence of STATE.. it flourishes under the complicity of the GOVERNMENT Somalia's government chooses not to fight kidnappers Nigeria's government chooses to look the other way when a tanker makes ship to ship transfers GOVERNMENTS create pirates, and take a cut.
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  42. Once again, a collectivist propaganda video. Trying to hide the failings of government intervention and the hubris of central planners. 1- "college" did not break america...GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION broke america. Universities have existed and contributed positively to the economy and nation, long before government came and enacted "college for all". The blame and responsability falls squarely on the government. 2- college and university is by definition elitist. Any attempt to change that would take away an essential part of a truth seeking institution. I want elites, I want them to be restricted, exclusive and very hard to reach. What I don't want is government colluding, granting privilege, or being captured by elites. 3- 25:50 "different people to do different jobs" Trying to hide the core issue that "equality" is a scam. We are NOT equal, never were, never will be. Nor is it desirable to obtain equal outcome. And even equality of opportunity may be counterproductive. The collectivists have used the word "equality" when they always meant "uniformity". And now they are pivoting away from their failings. 4- Why stop the conversation at "college for all"? Why are we not having a discussion about "high school for all"? Once it is recognized that we need "different people for different jobs"... some of those jobs DO NOT require high school instruction. Again, all this is because the collectivists are merely running away from large, very public consequences. They are distancing themselves from their failures. They are NOT engaging in a honest, broad, debate of ideas.
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  43. That is why the economy is regulated by supply and demand. No smart human is required. Just dumb idiots that make things and put them on shelves. START 1-Thing gets sold? Make another thing to re-stock shelf 2- Thing DOES NOT sell? Don't make anymore such things Go to START Not rocket science. Not even political science. Even dumb economists can understand this!😊
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  44.  @maYTeus  AI programed by...? AI fed data collected by? Why would you trust the programer to be "smart" AND "virtuous" ? Why would the data collector refrain from tampering the data for his benefit?
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  45. 2:50 "state capitalism" As always, the totalitarians are attempting to unite several things into one. They fuse leader, party, government, state and country as if meaning the same thing, and being one and the same... when it suits them. Socialism is government capitalism They keep using "state capitalism" to distract from the fact that when tanks roll on the street, when cronies get cushy credit lines, all these things are done by the government ... not the state
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  46. Min 5:10... it is telling that the track record of "no deficit" is cut off in 1997, the year of the handover. If the food trucks are a regulatory mess in 2015... can it be from the influence of the new rulers since 97? ..... Min 7:39 It would be interesting to report when did the government grant all these monopolies...was it before/after 1997? ......The channel walks a very fine line to please Hong Kong's new masters and avoid being censored.
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  47.  @nocheapdopamine725  it is marxism because it treats having wealth as a crime. And since they cannot tax it, steal it, or redistribute it... they rather destroy it.
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  48. Another government created monopoly crashes and burns? Another industry protected by politicians pays top lobby dollar to keep protections and privileges? WoW... Who could have predicted this?
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  49. Confusing centralization with geography is unacceptable
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  50. there is something wrong with the sound. the "s" and "t" are dragging 5:22 wicker weave hard hat is so hot right now. 😂
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