Comments by "موسی 7" (@Moses_VII) on "Why South Korea's Seniors Are So Poor" video.

@decus9544 There is a limit though. I think we have reached it in developed countries. We didn't have decrease in fertility rates when the population went from 1 to 7 billion; there must have been a reason.
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@480darkshadow I think those are exceptional cases which occur in new industries. Mass-produced cars were new in Ford's time, and electric cars new in ours. Electric car workers are treated better than petrol car workers, because EVs are a new industry,
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@PainterVierax That guy knows nothing. He thinks liberalism caused the technological development of the 20th century. No, the 20th century was a time of unprecedented growth because of petroleum and the discovery of all its uses. It was a cheap source of fuel and chemicals, so cars were first invented, so they had a long way to go; technologies with a long way to go benefit greatly from competition much more than mature technologies. Before century 20, the steam engine was a new way to harness energy. That also caused so much development. Development isn't due to liberal policy; it's due to cheap sources of energy. First was the invention of steam power, making coal much more than a way to heat homes. The 20th century was the petroleum century. Nowadays, we're getting poor because we're extracting all the easy and cheap oil. We have to frack nowadays. Besides, climate change is causing its own problems. Solar is cheaper than fossil today, but not when paired with batteries, but though it may become cheaper than what we have today, it won't be enough to spur a new revolution of economic growth- we already invented all the different types of electric devices, and making a better electric car won't do much to change life how cooking or heating homes centrally with gas did (an electric car is like a petrol car; it doesn't fly or do anything special). The future of the economy is modesty, not growth. It will be like the Middle Ages; we'll be growing gradually, if at all, but not experiencing the explosive growth of the 20th century or even the Industrial Revolution. I believe energy is the reason for our poverty. Peak oil.
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@johnso2399 So the businesses want to keep the elderly poor? Yeah, the chaebols own Korea. Chaebol is Iraqi Arabic for urine tea; a Korean person read that joke I made and said 'Ah, the smell of corruption'.
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@NicolasChanCSY I agree with the last point, but not the first point. Also, I have something to add about Confucius not being progressive: that's right. He said that we should hear a dog barking in the neighbouring village, but never see it. His ideal life was in the mountains, self-sufficient, ignorant of what's going on around in the world. Different religions are different. Shia Islam is all about science, development, and contribution to society. Even mystics like the AyatOllahs are like that. Jews also like science, I believe.
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Be careful. It's not okay to wish evil on the elderly, even if they have stolen food from your mouth in the USA. You can also blame America's problems on the automobile and suburban development. Those are how the old and others hurt the young.
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@SaladaTodoDia Low birth rates only make developed countries (countries with infrastructure) rich. But in rural Africa, you aren't going to have trouble housing ten kids; some will die, and the survivors have lots of room to build huts. Children aren't a cost there, they don't need to be educated, but they are an asset who can work in the farm. More kids means they can specialise, increasing productivity per child.
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@kageyamareijikun Yen is low to make exports cheap. That makes imports expensive. But Japan depends on exporting goods to other countries.
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Would this be solved by living with the grandparents? Keeping the family together? Not leaving the old to fend for themselve? Letting the children be with their grandparents? How fewer houses would we need. How fewer services would we need.
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@decus9544 It would be good for Korean society to have 2 kids per family, but not good for the individual families who can't afford to do that. In all non-Muslim countries, people aren't having families because they can't afford to have them. In Muslim countries, people have families, but it isn't doing much for the sanctioned, bombed, corrupted, etc economies. Egypt's fertility is too high, which will lead to starvation, since they are too poor to import wheat in crises, and they can't grow enough to sustain themselves, and their diet is mostly wheat. Iranians on the other hand have slightly less than 2 children per family.
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Islamic definition of poverty is something which is more than simply basic needs, but it has a useful definition. In Islam, poverty is defined as not having saved up enough money to survive for a whole year without income (ie unemployed). If you can't afford rent, food, school, and other needs without a job for a year, you're poor according to Islam. So simply having half the median income isn't our definition; that is why our defintion is useful. But the Koreans are poor; they're living stressful lives working unstable jobs.
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Islamic definition of poverty is something which is more than simply basic needs, but it has a useful definition. In Islam, poverty is defined as not having saved up enough money to survive for a whole year without income (ie unemployed). If you can't afford rent, food, school, and other needs without a job for a year, you're poor according to Islam. So simply having half the median income isn't our definition; that is why our defintion is useful. But the Koreans are poor; they're living stressful lives working unstable jobs.
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@tigeriontigerion9112 Wealth is almost impossible to measure.
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@julesverneinoz How can democracy and these Asian policies coexist? Simple: it's called hypocrisy!
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@Jin88866 Is he talking about metro train, or real estate price in metro area? Because I actually got confused
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