Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Why Is a US - Cuba Deal Inevitable? || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. You lost me when you said "cheapest labor". You're begging for another communist revolution there, with that attitude.
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  2. "The Mississippi is the largest set of navigable waterways in the world, and it's an order of magnitude cheaper to move goods by water" So why isn't Middle America dominant over the rest of the United States? I briefly looked at the numbers. They show that water transport, even in Mississippi-accessible states, has significantly less tonnage than highway. (Rail transport's more efficient but less used too, I guess since it's not great last-mile either.) I'm starting to conclude that having a massive river network is a great bonus that does not scale. Apparently there's a max carrying capacity. Compare this to ocean transport, which (aside from the choke points of the ports themselves) have a much higher bandwidth. Personally I'd rather this not be true -- I'd love to see the Mississippi basin dominate national politics, as opposed to the Hudson and Potomac, which have always been a bit too big for their britches. It would explain our current situation though, if it's not simply a historical accident based on migration and settlement patterns from Europe to America.
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