Comments by "Neolithic Transit Revolution" (@neolithictransitrevolution427) on "Whatifalthist" channel.

  1.  @Lam-ba-Lam  I would point to two biases in this observation. How many places have good transit as a consequence of running out of space in cities, and therefore build it to deal with unaffordable housing issues. How many of these places, particularly in Europe, see large emigration to the US draining their productivity and population and lowering the number of people to have births and the ability to make an income to raise kids.
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  2.  @claudeyaz  the point here is that car dependent cities mean there is even less space and it's even more expensive to live there. I agree that birth control and planing families has reduced birth rates, although I don't think removing it is in anyway a real solution. We need to make it possible to plan to have kids and not be broke.
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  3.  @gauloise6442  not all small towns are like that, for the record. Many have nice if small downtown's. Afterall, many were built for someone on a horse - or someone arriving on a train.
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  4.  @edjohnson8017  pretty sure that's cause they all moved to Canada
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  5.  @AndrewTheMandrew531  for example, when people are getting a bunch of upvotes in a comment like repeal the 19th amendment based on his video, I find it jarring not to see a negative opinion from Rudy.
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  6.  @Admiral-General_Aladeen  it's the very particular conditions of decades of wood piled up in Dozens of city's by a billion people that create the risk. My understanding is it's not the nuclear weapons per se, but the effect of setting several of the earth's largest and most slummed cities on fire simultaneously. The release of ash and soot is what is so potentially dangerous in terms of blocking sun. Although, given the lower quality of the nukes involved, the updraft created would contain significant radioactive fallout in the form of heavy metals.
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  7.  @hikashia.halfiah3582  a typo
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  8. Two potential things to consider, Nano bots actually getting good enough to greatly increase life spans Space industry getting advanced enough to make O'Neil cylinder tyoe habitats cheap enough for low cost quality of life.
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  9. Nitrogen Fertilizer also requires the Hydrogen from Natural gas, so beyond generalized increases in energy prices the commodity causing those increases is needed in particular.
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  10. No one is tired of empathy, no one looks at at 4 year old walking around and isn't a little happier. We just abuse empathy. We didn't evolve to see thousands of homeless or starving people, we evolved in small kin groups. Empathy isn't meant to make us feel suffering.
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  11. Don't do the bs eat the bugz stuff please. Or the getting rid of cars.
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  12. I like that you started with "Marxism is wrong for thinking it will eventually just happen" and finished on "For no explainable reason the world seems to have shifted away from Liberalism to Marxist values over the last 20 years". I do wish you would stop saying communist when you mean Marxist though.
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  13.  @adamnesico  the difference is that it's like refering to all Abrahamic religions as Baptist. He refers to explicitly Marxist concepts, like the inevitability of revolution or the materialist view of history, but calls it communist. Anarchists don't believe these things, nor did syndicalists, or people who just push for co-ops. I'm not trying to say any other style of communism would "be the one that worked". It's just cringe that he's so obviously conflating all Communist thought which textbooks Marxism.
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  14.  @1panomotion847  Please prove me wrong! Also concerning is Africa's dependence on Fish for Protiens and the potential for fishery collapses and general heavy metal/micro plastic poisoning.
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  15. I'm thinking my man hasn't heard of Miss Frisby or the Rats of NHIM
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  16.  @thesimpleanswer2264  So to the first bit, yes it was taken off the market but it isn't technologically difficult to produce. If you told me a war would immediately distribupt production I'd buy it, but the fertilizer industry slowly shutting down due to an aging demographic? Hydrogen and Nitrogen just aren't that difficult to produce. Rising energy costs in Europe will be a short lived phenomenon. Renewables, nuclear refurbishment, and LNG moot this overall. If europe continues a war footing woth Russia it could be problematic, but remember there is access to African pipe lines and the Netherlands could ramp up production in a medium run scenario. Soil fertility is an absolute long run concern. Mono cultures as well. But with fertilizer access I believe grain production is stable, and certainly not something that can be predicted.
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  17.  @thesimpleanswer2264  I was referring to NG, not oil. Oil luckily is a globally traded commodity so a price surge in europe will be global in extent. NG on the other is generally proced Regionally (due to the low levels of NG) so I would have greater concerns about its long run effects. I do feel Renewables offer a medium range solution regardless. Growth is unprecedented. Demand side measures in europe, including insulation and heat pump installation, has been aggressive over the summer, and with a full years preparation I don't doubt efficiency measures will be impressive. And non German response (particularly french) has been more positive, which is positive on whole considering the universal nature of the grid.
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  18. The argument around the Turks not moving north seemed under explained.
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  19.  @anvos658  I think you're considering to small a time scale. You can point to centuries this was true of Rome as well. The only time Washington has been sacked was a fleet that left from Canada with a large number of Canadian regulars.
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  20.  @looseygoosey1349  I doubt he would have crossed the Alps Either
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  21.  @RegisteredOffender-r1k  I just don't live in a major city? I mean the whole video was about how nukes actually are only going to destroy urban centers.
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  22.  @TuhljinTampergauge  not in a form that is accessible for a collapsed society though. Horizontal drilling is a new and complex technology. There are very few places you can drill a hole and have oil come out. Also, I'm not sure that your claim is correct.
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  23.  @algorithmgeneratedanimegir1286  some technologies advanced, particularly those related to iron working. Many areas did revert in technical complexity and certainly things that required long distance trade reduced. The Bronze age collapse on the other hand did see the collapse and widescale technological loss..
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  24. The problem with blaming decadence for low child birth rates is your basically saying we should lower our living standards amd opportunity for success to the point where people have nothing to do but have kids. Cities have always been a drain on population because cities were places you could get rich enough you could have a life, and kids weren't free labour you could exploit like a farm. I don't think the solution is making us poor peasents.
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  25. @ronanKGelhaus Land Value Tax, and no the debt limit
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  26. @ronanKGelhaus then vote for government with good spending platforms. But I would say that's the opposite of true. Governments will happily tax you into the ground, investors won't happily give their money to a government that won't repay it. Countries see debt purchases dry up all the time. No businessman or CEO would ever suggest a debt limit for a company, leveraging debt is just good economics, and that's true in government as well. Debt is cheap and capital is expensive, and the same is true for taxes. -taxes have collections costs at something like 3% of revenue -taxes distort the economy -taxes force costs on businesses for accounting -debt is always taking money from the stupidest person with the least clue of how to invest it, which is why they let someone else do it for a lower rate of return -debt is always a voluntary exchange I'd agree to a debt to GDP or debt to Government revenue cap. But as long as government policy is accommodating economic growth and growth in government revenues, I'm happy to see borrowing increase to drive that growth. As for a land value tax, I'll give you that rich people will game the system, but I hardly think that is unique. It's not like any other tax isn't abused in a way that the rich end up with bigger houses. But to the smaller houses part, that's not true. Let me ask, if you were going to buy a lot for 1 million dollars, but then I told you you would have to pay 1000 dollars a month for owning it, would you still pay 1 million? Of course not, you would pay less so that you found an equilibrium price where you end up paying the same amount over time. And if you're paying the same amount overall, it doesn't change how you were going to use that land. That's the whole point and the reason everyone from Hayek to Smith to Friedman agreed it was the best for of government revenue, it doesn't affect what anyone actually does, it just lowers the upfront cost of land in exchange for higher ongoing costs. It also makes it impossible for land Lords to stay rich just owning land, because they have that ongoing payment to make. It does the opposite of putting all the land into the hands of the rich, which you may notice, is happening quite readily already without an LVT.
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  27. On CO2 emissions, there is no doubt that ocean acidification is occuring, and an ocean die off is always followed by a mass extinction. And we can see dead ocean patches occuring more and more frequently.
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  28. I have enjoyed your content for 3 years. This video was so incorrect and misinformatived I have unsubscribed.
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  29.  @hewas_chewasky  Just because the cities are doesn't mean the civilization was. Most European countries have a military, but its rare to find hand guns in a home outside the US. Still lots ti discover. But, assuming this isn't the answer, either religious or economic superiority
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  30. I think you missed an opportunity to discuss potential fisheries collapse with mangrove and coral destruction, increasing anoxic events amid rising ocean temperatures and acidity, increasef hydro dam construction, and over fishing. Fish represent the majority of protein in the developing world and this would trigger crisis.
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  31. Not really. It's like getting a mortgage for a house. If the debt is for a growth, then it's easy to pay back.
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  32.  @drstevej2527  I would ask you stop characterizing these claims as being certain ethinic groups thriving in certain areas. The claim is clearly that certain Neotropical diseases thrive in certain climates, and that some ethnic groups have genetic immunity to those disease. I will start reporting your comments if you keep adding an unsupported racial screw to the conversation when the genuine claim has been repeated made clear.
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  33.  @samuelmorales2344  The parasites that cause malaria don't though. The point isn't mosquitoes its mosquitoes as a vector for disease.
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  34.  @samuelmorales2344  I'm certainly not stating there is no cultural element, simply that there is an environmental element that was ignored. Culture is transmitted, but it needs a population to be transmitted to, and as some populations are more susceptible to certain factors that effects the culture that is transmitted. Not clear on the argument that uneducated=pro slavery. Thomas Jefferson wasn't known for his poor quality of writting. Also not clear on how greek style architecture proves that southern society is purely a reault of Scottish culture. Any way, feel free to disagree. I cited a peer reviewed study, so get publishing I guess. In the mean time I am going to accept the occurrence of a series of diseases that African populations are specifically immune to and the correlation of using these populations specifically and with preference as a forced labour source as a logical causation.
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  35.  @drstevej2527  I mean yes. It's a place where people "comment". Not a place where people conduct research.That would be a peer reviewed journal. Which, of course as a courtesy, I did cite.
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  36.  @samuelmorales2344  Malaria was common in the southern USA until eradication efforts eliminated in the early 1950s.
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  37. I don't know, might be a net positive now that the US is a major oil producer/exporter. A war in the Persian Gulf would send us back to hundred dollar barrels.
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  38. I appreciate your pointing out the effect of malaria and ringworm in weakening tropical civilisation.
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  39.  @claudeyaz  no one blames the car, but the reason there's no where to go is the car oriented planning. Cars are a wonderful amazing invention, but we'd have the same issue if we insisted everyone should have two horses and a field to feed them in, in even worse ways.
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  40.  @danielhuynh9368  that's because rural communities are facing collapse, the educated young keep migrating out to find work, leaving the poor and (frankly) dumb and drug addicted behind. Look at the opiod crisis. Look at how Monsanto or Tyson foods have taken total monopoly over the food industry and used to to squeeze farmers to death. Look at how manufacturing collapse has left rust belt communites with nothing. Look at how Walmart and dollar tree destroys local small business and sends the profits to shareholders in New York or out of country. Look how small local banks are actively collapsing and the federal governments response is "these aren't the big banks, it won't break the economy so it's okay" when it's the small rural communities how are left without access to loans and local investment. Rural America is being destroyed and depopulated by policies that treat them as trash, and your response is to act like they are trash. We need investment to return and monopolies to stop bleeding them dry, so that people have a reason to stay. Give people hope, they aren't going to be killed willingly.
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  41.  @gauloise6442  Emigration to the US is definitely a problem for Western Europe now, it used to be your rejects and poor, now it's your best and brightest. As for the second part, I agree that's not the point of good transit. I was replying to someone claiming transit didn't really improve living standards, and saying that there is a bias.
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  42. Notably the population in the America's was so low due to old world disease.
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  43.  @Donner906  bra I'm not against a free market, I'm just against letting monopolies control investment or land and taking that free market away. My point is just that you don't need the word slavery to have it in practice. There's a reason red necks fought against company stores.
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  44.  @AndrewTheMandrew531  dude I'm fine with "right wing things". I've been following this channel since it did history I've found a lot of the social content in the last few years educational. What I don't like is politics as personality or people feeding into tribalism for profit, it makes the content seem cheap and unreliable.
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  45.  @saisameer8771  I want him to make a living obviously, as he pointed out recently he already makes a good one. What I don't want is to see him sell out into a meme of an influencer who only repeats the same points without review of their own bias.
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  46.  @AndrewTheMandrew531  that's fine (well not really the algorithm sucks eggs but whatever). It would be better if more people saw it with him clearly drawing a line against it than just to float. I appreciate the concept of the video telling me they are right to feel discarded. What I don't like is the general trend if the channel being telling me what I want to hear and making comments to associate himself with influencers. I want discussion not influence..
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  47.  @kadencollins  ethanol or cattle feed, 90% isn't Ethanol alone they are about equal.
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  48.  @evancourtney7746  I'm not refering to dust from the exposion I'm referring to the soot from the subsequent fires caused by air bursts spreading across India's and Pakistans sprawling and largely wooden slums.
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  49.  @evancourtney7746  “A regional nuclear conflict would compromise global food security” Would be the most recent study but there is also "How an India-Pakistan nuclear war could start—and have global consequences" 2019 "Rapidly expanding nuclear arsenals in Pakistan and India portend regional and global catastrophe" 2019 Micheal mills of the university of Colorado was the research who brought it to my attention in the late 2000s, but while I can find articles pertaining to his work o can't find the original material
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  50.  @robertbobbypelletreaujr2173  it's remarkable to me this doesn't seem to have happened when the USSR fell apart. The number of countries to come out of it, some like Ukraine having every reason to want them for the political power or Lithuania to ensure they don't get invaded, or Turkmenistan to resell, and none seeming to have done so is incredible. At the same time, the gross government corruption, between oligarchs stealing anything of value and generals selling it to them, and nothing displaced in movement. Likewise, South Africa got rid of all of them before handing over power. I'm not suggesting that means a collapsed America will return all nukes to the independent nation of New England, but it's very interesting. Clearly people takes nukes is taken seriously even in a worse case scenario. I'm not sure the risk of aging weapons. I think the triggers tend to break first, meaning they are not a sudden boom risk, more of a dirty bomb risk if just forgten. But I may be wrong.
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