Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Business Insider" channel.

  1. Stealing? That's silly, it's just proof luxury and quality are unrelated. Also, common things like sugar, cinnamon, and ice water were luxury items at certain times and places.
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  2. If starting any business were easy, everyone would do it.
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  3.  @hanellipsis  there's also pelts and proteins for medicine and milk. But more importantly, the cows eat that part of corn, wheat, and other plants that are not edible by humans but we produce a lot of through crops.
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  4.  @sunshine3914  this goon thinks we feed wheat to cows instead of eating it ourselves. No, the cows eat the inedible stalk of the plant. And cows, like humans, prefer fresh food over preserves, the latter provides all the needed nutrients to both. In a cow's case, hay and silage versus grass.
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  5. You could apply blood diamond logic to literally anything at all. There are even Mexican gangs that specialize in siphoning big natural gas pipes.
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  6.  @connordilworth64  I wasn't blame shifting at all. Especially when no safety gear at all is used despite the complaints about insurance and personal risk.
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  7. They lack the equipment and expertise to be a productive as they could be.
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  8. This isn't a new concept. In medieval times, much of Europe were "managed woods" where trees were grown for building material and fuel and pigs allowed to graze underneath.
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  9. One of the few places in the US that it grows
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  10. I'd rather eat the vegans
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  11. Why are people complaining about cutting down trees for boxes? Canada and the US have a rule where you can't cut them down faster than new trees can grow, so the environmental impact is zero. It's also dirt cheap, and that's that
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  12. You should hear what medieval Mongolians drank.......
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  13. US-Mexico trade is really quite simple. Cheap natural resources go north, quality manufactured goods go south.
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  14. That occurred for totally different reasons AFTER Henry Ford was dead.
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  15. Rising populations means people buy food wherever they can get it cheaply, so many cities quickly become dependent on certain farms. For instance, in colonial Angola most of the Portuguese were commercial farmers. This made food scarcity among the tribals go away and populations rose. During the Angolan War of Independence, Socialist rebels ethnically cleansed the Portuguese and gave their farms to their friends who lacked both the equipment and expertise for commercial farming. The Angolans starved.
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  16. Really? it seems no one will shut up about that. And you forget there was a time people would queue up for hours to get the latest iPhone, because back in those days by the time the phone reached the consumer there were new inventions that were fundamentally better.
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  17. Depends which country in Africa you mean.
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  18. You know these guys fight over lime extortion rackets, right?
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  19. Obvious scam
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  20. The launchpads have changed over the years and there are several. Oddly enough, concrete and steel experiences high wear and tear when a skyscraper sized rocket goes off on top of it.
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  21. Gaza doesn't have 5-star hotels. They don't even have reliable electric lines.
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  22. No......
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  23. Yes, but rich chumps give the master craftsmen money.
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  24. No
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  25. You are yet to see a farm
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  26. @oabdullah3927  blablahblah please leave food industry to those of us that kniw basic facts about food industry
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  27. SpaceX sure as hell doesn't use off the shelf machines. The alternatives is use an actual railroad like the Soviets and carefully erect the rockets which is just as expensive, or you can build the rocket on the launchpad which easily tripples production costs. But since NASA already has a crawler it's cheaper just to overhaul it than to build something new.
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  28. Sponges were originally made of sea sponges... Obviously. Some are still made that way, some are made this way, but most are just cheap synthetic materials.
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  29.  @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536  what?
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  30. Hannibal Lector approves.
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  31. Most meats? Dude, we take care of the animals so they grow big and healthy, then we use a bolt gun to kill them instantly.
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  32.  @papiangelus  yer whining about restrictions while counting on them to protect you from weird stuff.
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  33. Like you?
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  34. They never do.
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  35.  @siegfriedpintar  It's poison, I understood.
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  36. Go away
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  37.  @Ana-mp6my  yeah, but sugar cane doesn't grow in the places that subsidize ethanol.
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  38. Ooph. Leave it to 21st century news to attempt to blame white men for everyone's regulatory and money problems. That's overtly racist and you can see clearly the point it switches from actual research to political BS.
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  39. 2:00 Caveat: Lebanon is in it's own unrelated economic downfall.
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  40. Since when are we obsessed over avacados? And the vigilantes and cartels fight over anything worth money.
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  41. You're making me hungry
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  42. Dude, we're a net food EXPORTER. Some things just don't grow up here, like coffee, tropical fruits, cocoa, and sugar. Cappachino is America's favorite drink, and none of the ingredients can grow here.
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  43. Food is cheap in America that baristas can afford to get fat. People have to eat weird stuff to pretend to be rich.
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  44. Cash crops? America is a food exporter, and what you grow depends totally on your soil, bud. Where I am farmers mostly grow a wheat/soy crop (yes you can two crops in one year) or if they have water pipes they grow corn.
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  45.  @kyleucarer4471  from what I understood it cost more to create artificial diamonds than they're worth. I.E. a barrel of explosives can create a few dollars worth of microscopic diamonds.
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  46. There's over 51 million millionaires in the world, any one of them could drop 50 grand for the clubs of they wanted to.
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  47. Given the -ia suffix means -land, calling it Fordlandia is redundant.
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  48.  @douglasmachawk7436  it literally wasn't. Stop making your privileged first world belly so obvious.
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  49. Do they have to make the stuff the hard way? They could automate certain things easily enough and boost productivity.
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  50.  @josemunoz7691  this isn't a vintage winery. There's no supertasters or snobs involved. They even sell the goods in reused plastic bottles
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