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@MrToradragon I and many others had to figure things out for myself while dealing with all the guilt tripping, shaming, insults and bullying from other people around me when I chose pre-apprenticeship way back in high school.
Also, you older folks back then could work any type of job (blue, white, service collar) and still make it to a comfortable middle class level or even upper middle class with relative ease. These days, not so much for my friends and I.
For example, one of my mom friends (her and her husband) started working as grocery store clerks/cleaners back in the early 1970s. Eventually they worked their way up to store department managers but by the early 1980s, they both could afford a modest home, two children and a basic car in a city suburb with incomes that were only a few dollars more than minimum wage. These days, if any young person were to do that, they'd be financially broke and would have to work another 2-3 jobs just to barely skimp by.
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@IcelanderUSer Car dependent Suburbia was not created in the 1950s America... Detroit (the once proud Motor City) was the first one to begin experimenting with the automobile and car centric urban design. The left wing usually says, "More government intervention was needed to save Detroit." The right wingers often say, "We needed more tariffs to protect jobs in Detroit."
Here is the reality:
- Detroit is the first city to bulldoze public buildings and parks to make way for many parking lots.
- Detroit is the first city to create car centric infrastructure in their neighborhoods.
- Detroit came up with the idea of widening 2 lane local streets, into 6 lane highways for faster moving car traffic.
- The Motor City also came up with the idea of rapid sprawl and separation, using the automobile as a tool to fuel this growth. Growth was seen as something good, since Detroit faired well during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
***When you sprawl everything out; you lower your tax revenue base and increase the amount of liabilities that you are obligated to service (water pipes, wires, sewage, wastewater treatment plants, water towers, road maintenance etc.)
After ww2, those in key positions of power wanted America economy to keep on going, and not go into a slump after industrial war production was put off. Policy makers and planners thought that big investment in this (Detroit inspired) car centric suburban growth, would save America from another Great Depression. America poured in generations of incrementally built up community wealth, into this experiment, that has never been done before in human history. This experiment has been a disaster and in the process, has destroyed the livelihood of so many people!
"American" Urban Planning is like how the Devil operates. Through distortion, dissolution, and eventually total destruction of anything beautiful.
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Idk where these people live. Here in America, the only in-demand jobs are found in the “grey zone” of skill sets (middle tier work).
Yes, there are some jobs are very nepotistic (I.e.: elevator technicians), but there are other middle level jobs that are out there, in great demand, but nobody knows about them.
For example, America recently had a bunch of structural failures in her bridges, railways and roadways. Does anyone think of a career in maintaining such infrastructure? I can easily make a few from community college: Highway technician, land surveyor, civil engineering technician, engineering aide, and geological technician!!
Those are good fields to study, but nobody wants them!
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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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@resetsetmefree478 Well put. However, I disagree with you on the construction, urban planning, and architecture of the 1950s and 60s.
We poured in hundreds of billions to build car centric suburbia, which was a big experiment (continent wide). No other nation in history, built stuff to a ready and finished state, while neglecting long term maintenance priorities. When you sprawl everything out, you decrease your tax revenue while increasing the amount of expenses you must cover! When things started to bog down in the mid 1970s, we changed over to a debt based system that has been disastrous. With the continuous decline of social-government support, we see pe-ww2 cities being taken over by the rich, while the countryside and rotting car centric suburbs are given to the poor. This is the despotic end result we're faced with...
As for the Great Society and other welfare programs, Lyndon Johnson simply kicked the problem down the road for future generations to deal with. We also can no longer pay for food banks, clothing drives, and children support programs. All of cities, states and local counties are bankrupt. So many Americans (rich and poor) are on federal assistance these days because of such gross mismanagement.
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Russia and Ukraine does not know how to govern itself. Unlike the Anglo/French/German sphere of nations in the Western Hemisphere who understand self-governance, self-sufficiency, and possess the high level of creative-entrepreneurial skills. The overall Russian/Ukrainian population are lacking such important skillsets for building a high society.
However, Russia and the former Soviet Republics have always been financially and economically poor. Their best bet is the large export of natural resources (oil, gas, coal, lumber, seafood, beef, cotton, sunflower oil etc.), but the valuable opportunities keep getting squandered by corrupt leadership.
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Good visuals, but I think this Korean author gives a very foolish and naïve perspective on the USA. Probably because of his lack of experience and lack of (good) information back then.
He doesn't understand that America is a colonial outpost of Europe. When the European monarchs, republics and/or nationalist states fell apart after two world wars. America (along with Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) were abandoned; left to defend itself from hostile foreign enemies who wished to subvert, manipulate, and mold this young nation into their selfish plans.
Free market capitalism is an 18th century European economic concept that America has not changed from, despite being outdated for the 21st century. Gold standard was brought over from the 19th century Europe to the US. Americans still think of Gold or Silver standard money in American circulation. When in reality, our global economic system relies on debt growth. The Common Laws and Parliamentary Democracy came to America from England. Whites from Germany (Rudolf Diesel), Serbia (Nikola Tesla), Norway, Ireland, England (William Shockley), Holland etc. contributed massively to America technical and agricultural development. Finally, he talks about how White Americans are so materialistic... So were Whites in Europe, and Australia. That was how White culture was back in the 1950s! And this is nothing new amongst Whites getting overly fat, rich and comfortable. Even their own scriptures mention these things (Book of Judges).
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Those lands belong to neither India nor China. Lands such as Aksai Chin have always belonged to Tibet, but Tibet is being carved up by both India and China for economic reasons.
Also, lets not forget history in these liberal times of short sightedness. During the century of humiliation, India grew all of the opium poppies for the Dutch East Indian Company that were sent to China. For many decades, India also sent many soldiers and police units to garrison Chinese cities such as Shanghai, Hong Kong and Tianjin. China has never stationed troops in India cities and has never exported opium to India. So the tensions go back a lot further than just the 1960s...
The same thing can be said with the island disputes. Nobody ever cared about such "islands" (coral reefs) except when there are vast oil deposits there. Now suddenly you have all these countries claiming coral reefs for, once again, economic wealth that were left behind by "Whites in retreat." You may as well carve up the entire United States into colonial lands of India, Mexico, China, etc. because you have so and so living here and there, Lol.
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Canada commercial and industrial sectors were all “copy and paste” from the USA. From cars, to fire protection sprinklers, HVAC, paved highways, trucking, etc. Canada depends heavily on America for its own economic success.
As for skilled trades and engineering, Canada is suffering the same problems as America.
We have something called community colleges too, where one can learn welding, plumbing, brick laying, millwright etc.
If you think America is so heavily divided, you should see the path of decline that Canada is going through right now with Trudeau and Carney.
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@davegrohl817 Have you not seen the belt and road initiative of China? India has also recently kicked China out of India economy, so China has simply bypassed India with its economic initiatives. Just look at all the Chinese construction and economic investments in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Iran, Tanzania, Kenya, former Soviet Republics etc.
In the last 20 years, China alone used 10x more cement than the entire USA did in all the 20th century. Where did all that cement go? To build bridges, tunnels, rail stations, paved roadways, industrial areas, apartments, hospitals etc. etc.
Yes, India has the edge in IT, but India is greatly lagging behind China in everything else. And trust me, the West is not gonna be able to solve all of India problems.
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The mass media, movies, politicians, and yes, even parents themselves have made it look like manual labor and skilled trades are filthy work for the degenerates…. Then these same people visit the architectural monuments of Washington DC, Europe, Japan, China etc. and marvel how beautiful everything is built!! All that incremental work/beauty is accomplished by the very same skilled trades and manual workers that you hypocrites BASH/INSULT all day long!!
Now I love seeing all our infrastructure, buildings, and transit systems fall apart because nobody has the skills or will to maintain, build and renovate these complex things! Haha
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Here are the “issues”:
1) More people benefit from high housing costs than vice versa. If you are a business owner or employe or self-employed in banking, insurance, local government, contracting, developer, real estate agent, home owner, landlord who owns several triplex rental units etc. you benefit massively from high home costs. Only people who do not benefit are the poor and renters.
2) Stagnant zoning codes are a big problem many do not see. Especially permitting and taxes associated with new construction that adds up the base price.
3) New built condos will always be expensive no matter what. New construction has always been like that.
4) Labor shortages in skilled trades and engineering are another contributing factor to high home costs. Everyone knows of the shortage of experienced plumbers, electricians, carpenters, cement masons, and HVAC techs, but highly specialized engineers are in short supply too. Especially HVAC engineers who are desperately needed for designing the complicated HVAC systems for new built condos.
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The USA has created many rival superpowers over its short period of history.
Before WW2, only Germany and America dominated the global machine tools market. Nobody else was able to compete, not even the British and French Empires. After America bombed its economic competitor out of the market (Germany), the USA basically gave up tremendous amounts of industrial wealth to the USSR with lend lease from WW2, and allowing the Soviets to seize the other half of German talent and industry. Even before the end of WW2, many American patents, engineering blueprints etc. made its way to the USSR. The Russians still use American Christie suspensions, caterpillar tracks, mechanized American standard grain agriculture, American designed jet engines.
As for Asia, America basically gave up its domestic electronics industry to Japan and South Korea in the 60s and 70s. Thus, making those Asian countries wealthy. Next came China from the 1980s to the 2010s; America created another economic/military superpower! We gave up entire steel mills, refineries, chemical plants, foundry works, assembly plants and manufacturing to China.
Talk about being Uncle Sucker who pays up to everyone but the interests of the American people!
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@higherorderlogic6219 Out in the real world, I've meet many Russian and Ukrainian men/women who have emigrated to Canada-USA and they tell many that the poverty and economic despair in Russia/Ukraine is still very, very awful. Even before the war, and covid, Russia-Ukraine were doing much worse than the USA.
Yes, America is not perfect, but the rates of alcohol abuse, decline in average IQ, drug addiction, prisoners per capita, poverty etc. Russia is doing much worse than the USA!
And its not just Russia/Ukraine compared to Canada/USA. Before covid and the war, many Russians and Ukrainians in the 2000s and 2010s were leaving their homelands for Germany, Sweden, France, Portugal or the UK for better opportunities.
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@ Yes, you are very right about the Cold War and rapid expansion of American military with bases all over the globe.
Aside from gold, America was the one that launched the development of micro-electronic devices, transistors, microchips, satellites, computers etc. All that skilled labor in R&D, engineering and manufacturing also contributed immensely to our booming wealth post WW2.
The invention/creation of the transistor chip at Bell Labs (with help from Nikola Tesla scientific papers) also made America very rich. As every country now has to license American patents, and buy American made micro-electronic devices.
However, even all that had fallen short by the 1980s, as America could only train a fraction of the engineers so desperately needed by the micro-electronics industry.
These days, Bell Labs and many other R&D facilities are a shell of their former selves.
Forget about gold, we don’t even have the technical-creative expertise/skillsets anymore to back our currency.
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China is in the same position as America was in the mid 1970s.
After WW2, every American in the baby boomer generation was told to go to University (state college) and to acquire a any university degree, no matter how worthless it was. The fact that every able bodied American is going to university, means there were less and less people who were willing to do an apprenticeship or some sort of “old fashioned” vocational training at a community college.
Before WW2, it was common for Americans to do an apprenticeship and then work as a journeyman/Master/designer/foreman after completing their apprenticeship. Wages in the skilled trades/technician/mechanic/designer were good, even during times of economic meltdown. After WW2, less Americans had the patience to do an apprenticeship, despite so many job openings and wages going up for skilled trades, such as glass making.
Glass is something that is not easy to work with and takes a lot of patience to master. Universities and manufacturing plants all over 1950s America had a big demand for glass makers who could fabricate specialized scientific apparatus, but nobody was willing to do it, despite rising pay and many apprentice position openings! America had to import skilled glassmakers from Germany, where apprenticeships were still the norm back then for Germans.
Same thing can be said about present day America. We used to use pneumatics for HVAC control systems on large buildings/facilities. Pneumatics is far cheaper and more reliable than computer/electronic based HVAC controls. By the early 1980s, America was losing its expertise in pneumatic HVAC engineering/technician skill sets because nobody wanted to do an apprenticeship or “engineering training” at a community college. Now, for large buildings, we have all sorts of AHU problems associated with BAS labor shortages, degraded skill sets, inefficiency, and the lack of design engineers who are capable of HVAC theory and hands on air balancing.
All that aside, China is in the exact same spot as America was in the 1970s, 1990s, and 2008 mismatch of “skill sets”. More people lack the necessary unconventional thinking.
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Since the 1970s, the USA has seen a 1-2 children per family thanks to higher taxes, child incentives/breaks being removed, women being taught Academics instead of formal parenting, and men turning into spineless feminists.
Why do you think we had such crazy things going on the 1980s, 90s, 2000s etc. all the way to the present day?! Heroin on American university to campuses, children coming out of public schools so dumb, and many youngsters doing a worthless/costly degree at university! The mother who would look after their children are now exhausted after they come home from a long day of work, so they let their child do whatever they want!
Here in America, many old values, old towns, and morals are dying out because the older generation of men and women have failed to pass them on to younger people. We’ve become very short sighted, focusing on short term gains instead of long term incremental development.
All those feminists out there who want to insult me, I don’t care because Life has its own way of giving you idiots a “kick in the pants” when infrastructure cannot be maintained, cities crumble, and there aren’t enough high IQ/EQ people to fulfill all these job roles.
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Not too sure why so many people think it’s surreal to see WW2 military equipment on the battlefield today.
1) The Scientific-Technical concepts hasn’t changed that much since 1945. Missiles, rockets, main battle tanks, automatic rifles, micro electronics, and jet engines are a product of WW2 and pre-WW2.
2) The newer tanks and artillery are only slightly better than their WW2 counterparts, but are terribly expensive. So for poor countries like Ukraine and Russia, it makes no sense to keep buying new stuff when you can use large numbers of old, but still good equipment.
3) Since the end of WW2, the West has seen a massive decline in skilled labor of technicians, engineers, research scientists, and tradesmen. Since the 1980s, the USA has been struggling to improve and maintain its vast military arsenal and weapons because they can only hire but a fraction of the engineers and technicians they so badly need to implement new technology.
To conclude, if you understand basic history of a several subjects, it shouldn’t be any surprise to you.
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I love your noble ideas for the environment and building wide energy efficiency, but your ideas only work well for a modest density, residential house (detached, semi-detached, row-house etc.).
When it comes to commercial, institutional, industrial and larger residential homes (four-plex and condos), it’s not just about throwing lots of money into PV cells, green roofs, and grey water toilets. These are complicated things, and most property owners of these large facilities are better off investing in a proper maintenance staff (which they don’t), and in the end, there is no “cost savings” or “technical efficiency.” So, property owners are the ones lest benefitting from this nationwide energy efficiency program.
However, I do agree with what you say about the lack of “standards” for energy efficiency in America. Money is thrown around for energy savings on utilities, contractors, developers, etc. But at the end, nothing is actually “financially saved.”
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Skills needed by BAS Technicians - Jay Santos (Facility Dynamics Engineering) Talk at Laney College
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Wow, excellent video! Very good points you made my good sir!
However, I don't believe that China will collapse or degrade any time soon. They're a very enduring, authoritarian state that has survived many disasters and cataclysms. We can all take a dump on the CCP, but I like how Henry Kissinger described the CCP back in the 1970s:
"Unlike the Warsaw Pact nations where they all had communism imposed upon them by the Soviet Union. The Chinese created their own Communist party from scratch with all its original members still around. Take for example, Mao Ze Dong. Having founded and lead the party through civil war, the long march, world war 2, another civil war and then numerous conflicts since. This is not a communist trait, but rather a Chinese trait of endurance."
I'm starting to believe the prophecies of Alois Irimaier as time moves on. America will be too weak to invade China, but China will go on the offensive and invade America. However, they'll get beaten back.
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Only 20% of high school graduates should go to college. That is how the college system in Japan, Russia, France etc. works out. No nation would ever need 90% of high school graduates to go to college, since there aren't that many white collar jobs to begin with. You'd be better off doing vocational training, military academy, or short career preparation program at community college.
Especially with America numerous structural problems; you're far more likely to get a job as a welder, die maker, ironworker, electrician etc. In fact, America greatest cities that people love so much, were all designed and built by tradesmen, technicians, urban planners, small-medium business owners and artists! The problem with this debate is that it always starts off in the 1950s... You have to wind back the clock further and look at American education in the 1900s, 1870s, and 1750s!! Successful places such as Chicago and New York were all built up incrementally over time! Yes, things weren't perfect 150 years ago, but that is why you tackle problems incrementally!
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@smoothboye4203 Trades employers treat their employees worse??
As if white collar employers in banking, insurance, accounting, administration, commerce etc. treat their employees with such high respect, lol. The 2008 financial crash saw tens of millions of white collar professionals lose their jobs overnight and they were left with nothing for many years.
If you’re going to do anything, be a fanatic. If your going to be a doctor, be a fanatical doctor. If you your going to be a car mechanic; be a fanatic.
Don’t chase money. Chase after your passions and then the money will come to you.
I got into the plumbing trade because I enjoyed working hands on as a child and teenager. I loved changing the engine oil in my car, building wood fences, replacing smoke detectors, and fixing old bicycles growing up. Plumbing is like that, but with toilets, faucets, radiators etc. In other words plumbing can basically be boiled down to welding, soldering, connections, fluids, and control.
Take the time to do your own research and find one field of study that interests you.
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@sarahann530 As for car dependent suburbs, I answered that question in my previous comment.
After WW2, America embarked on a massive (continental) experiment of building “urban areas.”
America built entire car dependent suburbs to a ready and finished state for the wealthy and upper class echelons of American society. By doing that, we pushed poor people who lived on the edge of cities in log cabins, cottages courts etc. into city downtowns.
Again, that policy of “rich people surrounding poor people in cities” was horrible for many reasons.
As the social support system rots away, wealthy and upper class folks are moving back into cities, while poor people are being forced to live in crumbling car dependent suburbs that financially drains their wallets.
The suburban problem is only exasperated with strict zoning codes, zoning ordinances, public service regulations, and mandatory utility regulations imposed on every urban area (that includes suburbs).
So to conclude, we’ve basically outlawed any kind of mom and pop business or smaller forms of (incremental) housing.
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@sarahann530 It’s called working incrementally and allowing for “missing middle housing.”
The amount of triplex, fourplex, cottage courts, etc. missing middle homes that were demolished in Chicago (since the 1980s) is the equivalent of 20 million public housing towers.
But that is irrelevant to the point your making. Every city/suburb and urban area is financially insolvent and going bankrupt. That includes so called “wealthy places” such as Los Angeles and Silicon Valley.
We’re all Detroit. Detroit is simply a few decades ahead of every other city. Detroit started this car centric development pattern where everyone lives on the edge (suburbs) and drives to and from work everyday in a private car.
Detroit was the first to get rid of their railway transit system, widen roads, demolish public buildings for parking lots etc. When the utility and infrastructure bills came due, it happened slowly and then all at once. Which bankrupted the once proud Motor City.
We built very beautiful and functional cities and streetcar suburbs without so much zoning codes, regulations, ordinances, committed etc.
After trillions of dollars and multiple regulatory committees later, the best we can build is half occupied buildings and empty parking lots? It’s a joke.
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