Comments by "alex smith" (@alexsmith-ob3lu) on "KaiserBauch" channel.

  1. Don’t forget that the average Westerner is too individualistic to do anything significant these days.
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  2. That alright. You can suffer the consequences when you reach old age and realize how meaningless of a life you’ve lived. You want all the nice cars, transit, beautiful cities, well maintained public parks etc.? Then you have to have children. Also, asking women for this or that makes you as a man look really awful. More males need to re-learn old school virtues and morals in order to fully mature.
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  3. That has already happened with many Ukrainian women. I work as a contractor and deal with many different clients all over the place. I’ve personally witness many upper class American men (either divorced or still single) who had no luck with dating here in the States; find a wife from Ukraine. Before the war, Ukraine was in a abysmal economic mess. Any Ukrainian man or woman with the ability to leave, has already done so. You’ll find many well educated Ukrainian men who left Ukraine years ago, now work in IT or construction all over EU nations.
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  4. Ukraine was a very dysfunctional country even before the war, annexation of Crimea, and euro maiden. This war has only made things worse for Ukraine.
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  5. Meritocracy is dead across the West. You seriously believe that all these women got their cushy office jobs through merit? Governments and other large organizations subsidize women to go to school, subsidize women into the workforce, and subsidize women with handouts who make bad social mistakes (abortion, divorce courts, welfare, etc.) who pays for all this? Men who work long hours at tough jobs.
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  6. It is a similar situation in the USA too. Everywhere I go, whether it is the gym, grocery store, restaurant, bar, library, book store, national park etc. the ratio of old people to young people is 10:1. Same thing can be said about the workforce. I work as an electrician and everyone around me is in their 50s, with one guy being in his mid 30s. Too much old people and not enough young people.
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  7. Scott Galloway did a phenomenal Ted Talk about the wealth transfer from young to old in the US.
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  8.  @trippybruh1592  3% is enough for defensive action, but nothing too major of an offensive ability.
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  9. A nation requires 3 children per woman in order to maintain a stable and healthy demographic. That is basic biology. The USA (since the 1970s) has had fertility rates below 2.5 children per woman. Since the 2000s, the average fertility rate in the USA has been below 1.7 children per woman. So, America (like many other countries) is heading towards a sharp decline in the coming decades.
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  10. That is very sad and awful.
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  11.  @Chosen_Ash  And who traded family/community for great material abundance called “globalization?” The older folks did that. Now it’s the younger folks left to foot the bill for a party they were never invited to.
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  12. The decline of Europe is thanks to the European leadership and people who were too ready to quarrel with each other over petty things during the 20th century. Many English, French, German, Belgian, Polish and Russian leaders were still living in the 18th century of petty statesmanship. WW1 and WW2 completely overhauled and destroyed Europe. It was not just Germany and France that were wrecked, but England became financially broke, Poland collapsed to Soviet domination, Italy was a wasteland and in debt, Norway was broke etc. Had Europeans not fought a first and Second World War, they could’ve maintained their economic, financial, moral and demographic superiority over the USA and the rest of the world.
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  13. The tribe is not interested in doing that.
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  14. Ukraine was a mess even before the war and 2014 annexation. Doctors and nurses in Ukraine are known as “volunteers” and receive next to nothing in terms of pay for their work. The average skilled worker employed in industrial, construction, or maintenance or whatever got paid below minimum wage. Government of Ukraine was constantly changing hands between wealthy Oligarchs who cared little about ordinary people. Ukraine had a great start after the collapse of the USSR. Good economy, skilled work force, lots of healthy people etc. All that was squandered because not everyone has the ability to self-govern.
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  15.  @Juandinggong  Well, to be fair, there isn’t much he can do. Globalization has over complicated our supply chain system, so any distribution anywhere; things go downhill really fast.
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  16.  @__Wanderer  The Amish are self-sufficient, self-reliant and self-governing. They're doing much better than what many isolated suburbanites (like YOU) are doing these days! I'm not talking about throwing away all modern technology. I'm talking about the rejuvenation of local community, social networks, and learning to be more self-sufficient. You suburbanites always panic over high gas prices, rising costs of college, declining public schools etc. etc. The Amish/Mennonites never panic over these things because they got their priorities straight.
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  17.  @toxicmale2264  Indeed so... It will get from bad to awful before any of these feminists realize how terribly mistaken they are. The times we're living through, I like to coin it as "progressive decline."
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  18. You can learn a lesson from the Amish and Mennonites about raising big families.
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  19. That was how my parents behaved. Arrogant and callous because they have ONE masters degree. I get it, they were “the first” to go to graduate school in my family, but none of my siblings and I went to university.
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  20. Most people won’t be able to just “flood back to the countryside”. Especially with high gas prices, car dependency etc. in North America. You also have to take into account of federal land regulations, conservation authorities, environmental protection etc. that is imposed on the countryside now. Which makes access to the rural parts very limited. And through high industrialization, we’ve already eaten up most of the fauna and flora in the countryside. In the future, we’ll have to go both ways and find a balance.
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  21.  @ayararesara6253  IT is a very exclusive industry that not many people can get into. I've meet Ukrainians who emigrated to the USA back in the 1990s and 2000s; they all tell me how the average blue/white collar employee in Ukraine can't even earn enough money to put food on the table, despite working 40+ hours per week. Sine 1991, Ukraine has went through dozens of economic crashes that wiped out everyone earnings.
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  22.  @StevenHughes-hr5hp  Obviously, you are totally ignorant as to what the laws, government and founding principles of America are about.
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  23. Wow, that is very fascinating! I never knew that about the West adopting a centralized exam system to higher education from Imperial China!
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  24.  @toxicmale2264  Hey, if you believe that children are terrible, that is okay with me. Just keep in mind that when old people outnumber young people 10 to 1, there won't be anyone to maintain infrastructure, health care facilities, public transit, nice cars etc.
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  25.  @toxicmale2264  Okay then, good for you. Many people who don't want to raise enough children should not expect high quality infrastructure, reliable public services, nice cars, etc. You want all those things above, then you need to raise the next generation of people.
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  26.  @toxicmale2264  Throwing some money around won't solve the root cause of the issues. I was addressing the decline in skilled labor, quality standards etc. that is caused by many people who either 1) don't want children in sufficient numbers or 2) do not raise their children properly.
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  27.  @evilds3261  "Cheap labor" will be replaced by automation. The work that's left will be for highly skilled craftsmen's... at least what's left of the general population.
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  28.  @evilds3261  America no longer has the skillsets and industrial capacity to mass produce automation. Even if we were to import all the automation from China, there simply is no longer the sufficient population needed for consuming fast foods, cheap shoes, bottled drinks etc. However, I do believe that at a local level, there will be some automation done by skilled craftsman rather than technicians.
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  29.  @sloeberdoet  A lot of people in America work at a full time job just for basic benefits, while also doing side hustles, a second job, and a third cash job (on weekends) for extra income.
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  30. Despite the decline in educational standards and vocational training in the USA, we still produce people who are very exceptional and very competent. While many of our industries can only hire a fraction of the engineers, scientists, and technicians so badly needed; America is no position of total collapse and is still in need of many well experienced, well qualified white/blue collar professionals.
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  31. The vast majority of newcomers to Canada tend to flock towards Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, or Vancouver due to economy. In the rest of Canada, it’s all farms and small towns with almost no jobs. Even then, Canada economy has been constantly shrinking since 2020 with fewer opportunities and fewer jobs.
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  32.  @ayararesara6253  The situation has not improved at all for Ukraine or Russia. Even before the current war, Russia and Ukraine were amongst the former Soviet Republics that could not even feed half of its people because of terrible economic turmoil.
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  33.  @ayararesara6253  I know exactly what I'm talking about, astroturfer. You can tell all the lies you want, but that does not change the truth.
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  34.  @StevenHughes-hr5hp  Political parties do not represent ordinary people and how ordinary people do things. Especially true in America.
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  35.  @NeostormXLMAX  Regardless, extreme individualism and extreme liberalism are moral rots here in America.
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  36.  @Joker-no1uh  Wrong, the USA did not have the largest economy in 1890. Germany had the best economy from 1870 to 1945. It was the Germans who invented combustion engines, diesel engines, jet engines, and many other industrial R&D were dominated by Germany. America simply absorbed many German scientists, engineers, technicians etc. after the world wars that allowed America to launch satellites, space craft etc.
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  37. Your world shall die out to make way for our world.
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  38. People will have more children when they stop being so greedy and give up on modern luxuries such an TV sets, exotic vacations, fancy cars/motorcycles, and other ridiculous gadgets. In Canada/USA, the Amish and Mennonite populations are rapidly growing despite their early 19th century lifestyle.
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  39.  @susangoaway  Haha, as if you can change the lobbyists and private donors too.
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  40.  @Folomus  Too many people have "conventional ideals" that are outdated. There is always another alternative pathway forward. The greatest cities were once pop up wood shacks built by lumberjacks and it is God who has blessed you with children.
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  41.  @toxicmale2264  I'm fully aware of how complex society works and the capabilities for communities to re-structure themselves to population changes. My point above is that too many people expect this or that high quality goods/services without actually "being able to pay for it."
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  42.  @evilds3261  Decades ago, we already started predicting the collapse of our heavy industrial economy. In the present day and future, the people who will be prospering will be those who have adapted a mix of traditional craftsmanship and smaller scale industrial workmanship. Immigration itself will not fix anything in America. Despite an open immigration policy that America adopted after 1965, technical-creative skills continue to rapidly decline.
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  43.  @evilds3261  We don't even have the skilled labor to build and maintain such robots on a massive scale. We rely a lot upon other countries (i.e.: China) for many basic components. The American Empire is finished and there is nothing we can do to save a crumbling empire. America will return back to local statesmanship.
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  44. ​ @cfroi08  Unfortunately for you, NS Germany had the right approach, but was militarily destroyed by the Western Allies.
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  45. Even before the war, Ukraine had some of the highest rates of corruption/negligence. Combined that with massive brain drain where the better off Ukrainian men and women have all left Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR.
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  46. You’ve already forgotten the Canadian Freedom Truckers that inspired you Americans back in 2021?
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  47.  @subjectdelta5348  99.99% of newly arrived immigrants all flock to big city clusters in Ontario or BC. Almost none of these newly arrived immigrants are going to smaller urban areas in Saskatchewan, Quebec, or Manitoba. In Toronto and Ottawa; folks who work in government, insurance, real estate, technical contracting, mortgage/banking, and big construction projects love high immigration because it means more profits.
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  48. Your video reminded me of a common pattern of how foreigners perceive education in Canada/USA. A lot of people outside North America think that our educational system are inferior institutions that create inferior quality people who are not ready to do anything productive as adults. While that is true, I find it to be outright wrong at the same time. America itself (not counting international students and immigrants) still produces highly skilled scientists and engineers that turn out valuable R&D or startup projects that other countries like China cannot compete with. Then if you look into the community college institutes and American history (I.e.: the Dodge brothers), you find a “grey zone” where some of the best Americans combine theory & hands on ability into their profession. Too many people have forgotten what “unapologetic meritocracy” really means….
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  49. Rhodesia is on life support thanks to the injection of Chinese currency and goods. That won’t be the case with South Africa.
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  50. They don’t care about the EU or American corporation. As executives (bean counters), they’ll want more personal profits for themselves, so why bother giving a damn of the corporation fails? Just sell off the corporation to a bank or file for bankruptcy.
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