Comments by "effexon" (@effexon) on "Do External Threats Hold Societies Together?" video.

@thearpox7873 also tech based society has assumption everyone can afford all those equipment to be part of it... rift gets wider and it is like different religion for those who are not in same societal bubble. also this has assumption from here to eternity we can access those equipment in consumer scale... that may not be case even if have money at some point. Also my theory why birthrate is low, is based on this apart from money. But if you are bricklayer, you can estimate how long career you will have and plan family accordingly(or not plan, doesnt matter, job is not in your hands anyway). With (tech job) ground moving beneath you every 5-10 years, no wonder many arent planning 20+ year project of having family. This has effect , attitudinal or real, in every other job aswell... anecdote is if you dont lie you master Excel 2023, you cant get job ( you never used it coz previous job didnt have it) but used say excel 2010 and know everything about it.
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that works better in US where US mil is enforcing thsoe patents and rules are followed elsewhere... europe doesnt have that benefit to same degree. design (eg iphone) is different... but I dont see any company longterm prosper with only IP portfolio and bunch of lawers.
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and this is result of previous generations having lot of kids, who always moved to cities, making cities ever bigger... most of those described things were created in city so life would be at least not horrible. It is not common sense(anti-intuitive) but social media/electronic efficient communication in big city is needed coz people actually dont live near each other but other side of town which is too long distance to pop by daily level. Just think Tokyo where they are often decade ahead of west in this. Unconvenient truth is that only solution for centuries to "empty cities" was having wars to expend lot of people. As we wanna be more civilized nowadays, we have these other problems to address. I see jihad double whammy: it is outlet like that and also strengthens identity. Uncontrollably growing cities are so big danger for civil war and chaos that it is lesser evil though also gamble it can backfire like 9/11. With modern non state jihad it seems to work a bit better than older state vs state risky gamble.
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@Etaoinshrdlu69 Im referring to EU being 400mn+ population so it would be weird if US as smaller 350mn population should help out big brother in future. Then india dont acknowledge pharma patents, china even less so and both are big players in world economy. Being big company means they have to have leverage to force people not counterfeit their products or they go under. Perhaps EU is just a bit new to this and next 20 years we shall see what happens... it has to be popular in domestic market first before taking over world... thats how US companies did it. Big threat to this is russia who just confiscated lot of assets... if that example spreads in context of europe, that is not good for companies. US presence eg in Japan helps also european companies. Im not sure europe wants or needs US mil complex tied tech companies, that seems way to grow very big in tech, but still needs big companies... olden times regulation to protect domestic companies was the way, nowadays some other smart mix.
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Kaiserbauch suggesting EU become military superpower of world :D Well russia is pushing europe to that direction and US is weakening and lacking will to dig friend out of hole time and time again. So out of necessity and survival, it may become reality in next 30 years.
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@kaiserbauch9092 unfortunately I agree, with its overreaching tendencies and old conflicts brewing in balkans and near turkey, along immigration issues. As lightweight trade union with euro it could work, as gives stability to smaller countries, but centralizing too much in Brussels is downside. As we see malicious actors have found single person lobbying target in EU how to cause corruption from its weakest points. This in longterm causes economic inefficiency and lowering living standard despite everyone working their asses off, so rebellion is already happening (US 2021 style people stay at home, not go to work). Adding military superpower status to this would cause likely these problems get even deeper and crazier like in US, with responsibilities to intervene abroad, draining resources small.
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@walteralvaroaraucovera4751 I can see where that could lead.... as small country nobody takes this seriously but then they participate in neo colonial "human rights" programs in foreign soil and whatnot... human rights is convenient cover to be dogooder, spreading your national culture and values and system.
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they also had strong grip in anything ... but that is good point , I heard strong communities doing that keep liberalism at bay, eg gays are tolerated but no way promoted as main goal in life (liberalism can be good in very marginal effect but usually spreads allover causing damage). Granted low fertility in spain now is they still are in mental recovery from that period which made spain very poor, main reason dictatorship was ended. also to keep in mind all of those countries have pretty much stable population so Id argue their population grew fast to practical maximum for daily life. So having 6kids is nice but it is shortterm thing until become overpopulated.
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@malnigman7654 was this right after WW2? coz by end of 60s and throughout 70s spanish economy was suffering... franco was old also, so these might have link. Also in Stalins era, 1920s to 1950s soviet union was powerhouse but then struggled with higher tech (high value)products. I agree during francos time, I agree early years they did lot of small things benefiting regular people. I dont know where these modern european policies come from, but must come from somewhere to be so unified policies and pressure to do different is huge.
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@malnigman7654 so you are referring to golden age of tourism... in some documentary they said Franco opposed that, due to cultural risk undermining order he was proud of. Im not aware how huge factor tourism alone was in spanish economy overall but it was mass scale. It is often case like in russia 1990s, yugoslavia after tito and spain somewhat 1980s that after strong leadership/dictator period there is void democracy alone cant fill.
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@kaiserbauch9092 why is that? there are dozens of niche companies in tech though, which are bleeding edge... so what would be solution? does europe need big tech if they have "deals" with US like now(all kinds of monetary, defense equipment, trade etc)? Also to point out competing in cheapest low marginal consumer products aint very desirable and US companies also keep that as "side dish" while doing much more profitable datacenter, corporate businesses with almost same products.
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@harshjain3122 is that because hinduism is similar level enemy as jews seem to be for muslim world(mostly for political reasons and reasons described in this video) ? I dont know india that deep, though there are almost constant bomb attacks by biggest minority.
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@thearpox7873 sorry, I try to put it short: 1) to be part of digital society, needs quite big purchases for regular people. 2) Also there are trade dependencies where these equipment are manufactured. 3) Time aspect: tech helps to create many kinds of bubbles and subgroups in society as there are so many apps and platforms and people dont have time to know all of them.
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