Comments by "Classical LP Vault" (@classicallpvault8251) on "China's Real Population Numbers are Shocking (Demographic Collapse is More Advanced than we Thought)" video.

  1. Imagine the CCP buying up truckloads of table salt just to mask population levels crashing.
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  2. No they don't. The US pays around 5 billion dollars annually to Israel and that's not welfare. It's a payment for policing the Middle East. If the US had to do this themselves they'd have to spend 3-4x that amount, mostly due to logistical issues stemming from being located 1000s of miles away, and be less good at it. After all, fighting for abstract geopolitical goals is harder to motivate oneself for than fighting for one's own country. US military aid to Israel amounts to less than 1% of its GDP or 4% of its government expenditure. Cutting this aid (which would be incredibly stupid) would be a problem, but not an insurmountable one, for Israel to deal with. Also, the Israeli welfare population isn't like the welfare population in Western countries. They're not hordes and hordes of low IQ people with employment resistant personalities. Ultra-Orthodox Jews have a strongly intellectually oriented culture and also a far higher degree of rule following, devout religious communities like that also demand high levels of in-group loyalty and pro-sociality. Meanwhile, the precariat in the West largely consist of the dumbest and most antisocial elements of society. Ultra Orthodox people with characteristics like the typical Western welfare recipient will either have low status within the community or end up leaving it because they're not pro-social enough to conform to the very strict social norms within. Tapping into the huge economic and social potential is a matter of necessity just like accomodation of the ultra Orthodox in the IDF and this will occur. Just as they're now serving in the Army they'll re-join the workforce just like their ancestors living in Eastern Europe before WWII held their own trousers up economically speaking. That their government is unstable is correct, thanks to proportional representation and a fractured unicameral parliament, but this also means that the Ultra-Orthodox can't expect to take over the country since all the social democrats, national-Zionists, and even secular right wingers (many secular Jews from the former USSR and their families are very right-wing but so secularised that Russian shops sell pork products) will just form a coalition to prevent this. Israeli politics is also becoming less fractured as even the secular population is steadily moving to the right and one of the biggest dividing issues, the Palestinian problem, is becoming less divisive now even the most naive peace advocates are realising that the Palestinians don't want a two-state solution but the Final Solution.
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  3. Taiwan is seeing similar levels of population decline, but they have one advantage: freedom. If people don't think they're just slaves to the system, the fertility rate at least isn't further driven down by that factor alone. China is just a massive open air gulag with skyscrapers and neon lights.
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