Comments by "disgruntledtoons" (@disgruntledtoons) on "Business Basics" channel.

  1. It's one thing to be the fattest kid in school. It's quite another to be the only fat person in your whole country.
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  2. If Tencent has lost sixty percent of its stock value, shouldn't we call it Fourcent?
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  3. There's a joke going around. A Russian soldier is walking around with just one boot. Someone calls out to him, "Did you lose a boot?" The soldier replies, "No, I found one!"
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  4. I hope that our military leadership is learning from the new tactics and technology that is involved in this war. Unless something is done to reverse it, drone warfare promises to turn tanks into a very expensive way of donating large amount of metal to the local scrap dealers.
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  5. One lesson to draw, for those who haven't drawn it: Nothing claimed by the CCP should ever be taken at face value. They are such inveterate liars that half of their lies are lies that they tell themselves.
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  6. 1990 essentially spelled the end for Russia being able to face off even against the US alone. Throw in the NATO allies and it's now only a matter of how much harm the Russians can do before they are brought down.
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  7. It is highly unlikely that the reports of failures and corruption are intended to catch us off-guard. The Chinese simply cannot bear to lose face, even if avoiding it requires choices that are bad for them, and everyone who has lived in China for extended periods of time are aware of corruption and shoddy work at every level of government.
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  8. Where the wealthier countries have the advantage is that they are in a better position to transition to a wealthy nation with a reproductive rate sufficient for replacement. This is because labor productivity is higher. Higher labor productivity means that families can have the lifestyle they want on a single income, freeing up one parent to raise the kids while the other works.
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  9. Asia is going to have to move to industrial-scale hydroponic farming if it is going to meet its needs in the future. Or they can buy food from the US.
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  10. Four factors drive economic growth: Access to markets, capital investment, labor, and political culture. China is already at the maximum on the first score, and is nearing the maximum on the second. The third factor is in decline. The fourth factor has never held a candle to other nations and at the moment Xi is doubling down on authoritarianism. China will stop growing--if it already hasn't--and will never catch up to the US unless its political structure genuinely embraces individual freedom.
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  11. We now get to see whether the willingness of the Chinese people to endure the coming suppression will wear out the CCP's ability to impose it.
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  12. Except for Japan, China's territorial disputes stem from the pride of China's rulers.
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  13. The root of the issue: China's incessant fiddling with the economy--always for the benefit of the well-connected--is turning the mainland economy into a house of cards. They didn't learn from any of our crises--all caused by the government fiddling with the economy in some way--and now they will reap the penalties.
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  14. I suppose that most of what the Russians said to the Korean troops was some form of, "Sure sucks being you guys."
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  15. Why was Italy involved? Because Italian politics are f***ing insane.
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  16. Their official religion expressly commands its followers to overthrow governments which don't follow the religion. If the government is not already strong enough to fight back, instability will be a constant issue.
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  17. Mexico can best position itself for a permanent and relatively peaceful rise by establishing the rule of law and eliminating corruption.
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  18. It's bad enough being the fattest kid in school. Imagine being the only fat person in your whole country.
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  19. The real civilian gun ownership stat is that American gun owners outnumber the combined militaries of the entire world, including our own.
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