Comments by "Sedna063" (@Sedna063) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

  1. Why should a Youtube Personality do the job of the US government?
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  2. Why judge when it is over? Any modern manager would tell you that you control your business during the process and not wait until you are done to evaluate.
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  3.  @Abu_miller  There are not nearly enough dates and milk to support the entire saudi pop. And I doubt the majority of Saudis would like this. Not after all the perks of modern tech.
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  4. Well, you aren’t evil but we definitely don’t like the way society treats some individuals. Trust in God, ok, but God doesn’t cater your wishes. God gave free will and basically made earth our playground. Trust in yourself, get up, work hard, create a better society. Then, after you die, God will see and judge. But he won’t fix your problems for you.
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  5.  @stevencaldwell838  Have fun
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  6.  @muslimbrother27  Why would non-Christians go to places like the Vatican, visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre? Why would people visit Hindu Temples? Because even without subscribing to the faith, one may want to see a place of art or historical significance which Mecca and Medina undoubtedly are.
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  7. I am not inclined to agree completely. Iran in all honesty has made a better show how to diversify the economy. They are suffering due to sanctions mostly, but they have a rather diverse economy. Venezuela completely broke, and Iraq, Libya are failed states. As for Nigeria, the government revenue is oil but there is a lot of economic diversity outside the government. They will be fine. Saudi Arabia has a much different society than Nigeria, where the ordinary person wasn't dependent on oil incomes through government.
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  8.  @rami8896  We are actually doing fine
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  9. Just type „problems in America“… you will find many millions of videos about America done by Americans…
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  10.  @davidhimmelsbach557  Oh yes, Yemen is a special case on the peninsula but we are talking about Saudi Arabia, not Yemen.
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  11. Doubt they will be in a state of war. Most of the wars there happen for entirely different reasons than just oil. UAE and Qatar will be fine. They have small populations, huge oil wealth and have largely made a transition from oil to services. They will have a future. Oman is an interesting case but they will be alright too. Yemen is a failed shithole. No other way to say it. Saudi Arabia is very late to the game, they might take a big ass cut to their prosperity. Jordan has never relied on oil as a source of wealth and with one of the best school systems in the MENA region they will do alright with a moderate and careful government. Israel obviously relies on innovation. Syria is a shithole, Iraq is a failed state, Kuwait and Bahrain have largely stayed under the radar but they will continue to exist. Egypt is my biggest worry though. Explosive population growth with water stress already and things don't seem to improve.
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  12. Shall I explain
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  13. Actually the US declared no wars for oil resources. They have their own oil.
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  14.  @vv7650  ?
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  15. Russia will not be a powerhouse. And they have enough oil
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  16. @Ahmed Russia has longterm contracts with many countries and nobody will be foolish enough to place their entire stock into KSA. Who cannot fill the demand…
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  17. @Ahmed Because ypu don’t want to rely 100% on one supplier. Imagine if a war breaks out; what will happen with the oil supplies? And Saudi Arabia can not cover the global demand alone
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  18. The 2020 map looks so sad
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  19. The US is energy independent. They only export some 10 billions worth of oil from SA.
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  20. You may point out the incorrect data,
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  21. Ptoblem is that OPEC got a lot pf players that have divergent interests and OPEC doesn’t have nearly the same control over oil that the FED got over the US dollar.
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  22.  @muminadi5400  opec only controls some 50% of global oil supply…
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  23. The decisions are even less transparent than in China... China had until recently left business alone.
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  24. And what will I see? The polished image
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  25. What do you think must change in Saudi society?
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  26. You are literally the 1000th comment on this one...
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  27.  @essa07  Actually, this is an honest mistake. You can find the data he says there are. I read the economist and this magazine comes to the same conclusion
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  28. What should this word garbage even mean`?
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  29. Dubai isn't reliant on oil. But you are correct, there is nothing that Neom offers that you can't get elsewhere.
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  30. LOL
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  31. Have you ever driven an electric car? I have and they are great.
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  32.  @thewiseguy3529  First, I love it when people like their own comments lol. Secondly, Idk where you live, there are chargers all around. I almost exclusively use electric car when doing stuff around my area and charge at home. Since we have two cars, one is for those really long drives. The other is good for anything that happens in town.
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  33. I thought Vision 2030 started earlier than this. 2. Find me the statistics where it is written that " Saudi Arabia is the government most loved by the people". I highly doubt that. I also doubt such statistics as in a country without some freedoms, people may not be open to actually discuss their views... 3. Find me that prediction! Russia has vast untapped reserves in the arctic and the US does have several unexplored oil fields too. But lets hope we get rid of oil to a large extend. 4. The usage of oil is primarily still for energy. In 2019 oil sector by usage: -Road: 35% -Electricity: 19% -Non-road transport: 11% -Petrochemicals: 13% -Others: 20% So basically, 65% of oil usage are transport and energy generation. If that alone were cut down by half, oil consumption worldwide would drop by 1/3. And for strategic interests, many nations will keep producing for their own economy, meaning Saudi Arabia will have to produce less, sell less. 5. The world won't consume every last bit. Much earlier, people will look for replacements as prices rise for those oil products. And they will find better alternatives.
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  34.  @thetreader  1. Your example is faulty. That isn't freedom of speech, this is slander and punishable depending on the nations laws. By the way, what is "much cleaner"? If I advocate for a different government policy I can be arrested in Saudi Arabia. I am also very much doubting your claim that you won't find liars in your community. I find this paragraph of you highly amusing and saddening at the same time. 2. Oil production. As I said above, nations with oil wells will continue to produce oil if only for strategic reasons. And if Venezuela would get their act together, they would have a strong chance to take a lot of Saudi Business. 3. True, oil consumption will possibly rise for a while. But oil as a factor of the economy will decline in the future. With the world going electric and replacing oil energy that is a drastic cut. There are innovative works on plastics replacements done which would possibly reduce oil consumption even further. Africa might even skip oil entirely. The Japanese example isn't the best I would say. Japan has extensively modernised their society over the past decades and immensely invested into education and technology. Something that has yet to be done by Saudi Arabia. Detailed spending plans on education and R&D are hard to come by but they aren't nearly anywhere to Japanese spending on R&D. And for a nation with a youth bulge, 5.8% GDP spending on education (2018) isn't all that impressive. Plus, the results of the education in SA are reportedly a mixed bag with inadequate skills and rote learning. Plus inbalances in the curriculum. There are reasons why so many foreigners work in Saudi Arabia. The leadership has done steps in the right way but whether this is enough to succeed I doubt it. For that matter, I think the current vision is way too much of a copy of the UAE which does not adequately reflect strengths and weaknesses of Saudi Arabia; namely a large proportion of youthful citizens but without a big history as a touristy destination especially for non-muslim cultures. 4. Why do you claim this battery nonsense? Lithium is the third most abundant material in the universe and on earth it is highly abundant. We have proven reserves of 21 million and resources are estimated to be at over 80 million tons (we only used 80,000 tons last year). Plus, battery technology is always evolving and soon Lithium may not be the most sought-after material. And obviously, there is recycling. Lastly, oceanic reserves are virtually unlimited. It could be a byproduct of desalination. Anyway, Saudi Arabia definitely has a future. Not oil though, that will fade. But with the infrastructure in place, they can export hydrogen and even lithium if desalination is increasing. But to become an investment hub, Saudi Arabia needs to change a lot. Change isn't always bad. (In respect to #1, this is freedom of speech).
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  35.  @baba9665  Saudi Arabia won‘t die - there is just too much capital in this nation. But they will see a significant reduction in standards of living if they cannot modernise their economy and move away from a rentier system to a productive modern economy.
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  36. He was not an American citizen
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  37.  @madrigale6396  Probably. Then again I wouldn’t hide the fact that Khashoggi wasn’t someone who supported America. He was a muslim brotherhood member. I don’t like those fellas
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  38. Nobody wants Saudi Arabia to become Hollywood. Merely to make the journey into the 21st century...
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  39. He did mention them...
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  40.  @bosanski_Cevap  Thats too simple. Nobody forced them to forego maintenance on their dams and oil wells or to completely get rid of private businessownership...
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  41. Not sure about stoning but they chop
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  42. Hard to answer because the West and Saudi Arabia have a different idea what terrorism is. Saudi Arabia does not financially support terrorist organisations such as Al-Qaida, IS... but their private citizens have done so in the past. There appears to be a crack down on this though because even for Saudis this is too radical. On the other hand, Saudi Arabia still sponsors salafism and wahabism world wide and this ideology has a very, very high chance to further radicalise people as seen with multiple terror attacks. Saudi Arabia preaches an intolerant islam and that is coming back to bite them. Let's hope that MBS does something good and modernises schooling and decrease the islamist content spread. Weirdly enough, many Saudi kids party hard in neighbouring, more liberal nations.
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  43.  @mohamedalrashed3888  actually the largest fund is that of Norway. A nation which has a much more diversified economy and smaller pop.
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  44.  @UzairSohail-tf3hc  Actually they would want her money...
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  45.  @UzairSohail-tf3hc Not really. There is a surprising amount of poverty in KSA. Plus life isn't cheap and the unemployment is high, especially youth unemployment. They want all the commerce and tourism they can get so that they can finance their expensive country (living in a desert with HVAC, water and modern lifestyle isn't cheap). Anyway, I never understood all the hate against other people like LGBTQ.
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  46. @Ingeniator Abderamus What is it to you what two consenting adults do with their time in the bedroom? Does it somehow negatively affect you? And yes it is about love. Not all love is sexual anyway but I doubt people would be ok when a loving gay couple would live together in Saudi Arabia even if both are asexual… Anyway; while citizens do have access to extensive benefits, the costs for those are staggering yet many people are not prosperous enough to really escape poverty. That would only be happening with extensive and long term job growth but there is little evidence for it happening right now.
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  47. True, but pilots don't even get a degree. They get a license to fly and that is about it. There is a very limited market outside passenger traffic for pilots with their skills.
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  48.  @zaramuhx  Yes, there is that. And just that. Your entire skill is focused solely on the commercial airline industry. Your skills developed won't be of good use in other areas. If I study anything related to computers I can work everywhere with computers. Pilots flying commercial jets have no other qualifications. And that is a problem.
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  49. 100k for Lufthansa as an entry level? That may be in the 70s but today, no way. A beginning Lufthansa Pilot makes 65,000 maximum. And he has to pay back Lufthansa for his education.
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  50.  @Mike25654  And as I said, no entry level pilot makes 100k. Plus, most people educated at Lufthansa aren’t taken over by Lufthansa
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