Youtube comments of alex smith (@alexsmith-ob3lu).

  1. I don’t hate those who are economically, romantically and financially better off than me. I hate those who are better off than me and are working hard to make my frustrating life more miserable.
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  2. Don’t forget that the average Westerner is too individualistic to do anything significant these days.
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  3. Excellent video! Reminds me of a family story… My old man worked as an HVAC Controls (BAS) technician for a corporation. His company that employed him was called “ESC Automation”. It got bought out by a private equity firm in the mid 2000s. As soon as the takeover was complete, half of his colleagues were laid off and the remaining employees got their wages slashed in half. So more people ended up quitting and before you knew, my old man was doing all the work and overtime work for cents on the dollar just to keep regular customers happy. After a few years of milking the corporation dry, the private equity firm sold everything to an investor who allowed things to be turned around in the company for the better. My old man was lucky and did not lose everything, but man, most folks out there are given a rotten deal with corporations these days.
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  4. Because our politicians know that they cannot fix this urban planning issue! It will takes a few decades to correct this problem we’ve built ourselves into from the 1950s to the early 2010s.
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  5. Here in America, I would love to see a renaissance of Richardsonian Romanesque, Art Deco and Neo Classical architecture!
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  6. It’s not bizarre. It’s all intentional to keep you confused and in the dark.
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  7. Eisenhower wanted German inspired autobahns in the USA for military logistics. He never intended the Interstate Freeway to be used by hundreds of millions of civilian cars. But at the end of the day, Eisenhower never realized that Hitler built the autobahn for commercial trucking and not for the Wehrmacht.
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  8. Most customers are looking for cars that are below $30k and of decent quality. Not cars that are advertised as “luxury” and going for $90k. That’s why Toyota sedans are selling and certain GM models (Buick Encore) are also doing well.
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  9. Most employers have forgotten what it means to compete for workers. Employers just want to hire someone with 10+ years work experience who is willing to work for cents on the dollar.
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  10. It’s going to get worse in Canada as inflation, taxes, currency devaluation etc. continue to make Canada economy even more dysfunctional.
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  11. Thank you for sharing this awesome video! I’ve lived in Boston, Chicago and New York. None of those top tier American cities compare to China, even 20 years ago! Instead, we have dysfunctional car dependency everywhere.
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  12. Bravo to the students! The students designed a far superior city block than the so called “professional planners” who designed the block like a two year old toddler.
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  13.  @sanmcarl7336  China government calls itself "communist", but their economy is more of a balance between socialism and capitalism.
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  14. Thank you for sharing this video! I had no idea that a European nation like Romania had lost so much of its architectural beauty too!
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  15. You are very correct! Meanwhile, there are employers and smaller businesses that are eager and desperate to hire apprentices or technicians or mechanics to get such badly needed work done. And despite the growing jobs, wages and opportunities in many other fields of study; too many people are arrogant and just go around assuming this or that.
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  16. You can see the history of other American cities on other YT channels. But I think it’s good he stopped here or else it would get too depressing to make and watch.
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  17. Good video. Thank you for sharing your story. I work blue collar as a low voltage electrician. My previous job was a controls technician doing automation systems. I never went to a four year college (university) because my grades weren’t enough, university tuition was out of my budget and I didn’t want to get into debt. So, I went to technical-community college and completed an associate of applied science degree in electromechanical engineering technology. So yeah, you can basically call me the “unicorn” of my generation as everyone else around me went to university and are either doing well or doing terrible right now. While I remain “in the middle.” The main problem is that many people don’t think enough and are too easily manipulated by emotions. Especially parents who (for the most part) don’t understand anything. Our presentation day classroom/lecture public schooling is from the early 19th century (Prussian model) for drilling soldiers for “industrial combat.” Most folks don’t realize that our schooling is a highly controlled environment; something that life isn’t about. Even if your education is high quality, it’s still FACTORY quality! What happens when there is an oversupply of a factory product? The items just pile up in a warehouse going nowhere.
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  18. Many folks don’t even realize that many trade fields have either become extinct or degraded because of the lack of people going into such fields for several decades already! A good example is HVAC for medium sized buildings. Back in the 1950s, HVAC controls was all pneumatics. By the 1980s, we transitioned over to electronics because all the pneumatic techs retired with no one to fulfill their spot; other than electronic techs from other fields. By the time you get to the 2000s, most of the electronic techs have retired and computer techs stepped in from other fields to fulfill the work in HVAC controls (BAS). 2010s onwards we see a perpetual labor shortage in HVAC control techs because nobody knows or cares.
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  19. Very well said! I’m a journeyman electrician and turning 27 years old in two months. An apprenticeship in a skilled trade is not an easy pathway as most people would like to believe. You are spot on with the schooling, field experience, and all the overtime required.
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  20. The reason why employers do that is because there is an disgusting over supply of low skilled and high skilled labor. Middle skill labor is what’s missing these days.
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  21. Funny how architects, designers and interior designers who create such hated ugliness have lame excuses for such sloppy work. Meanwhile, in any other profession, you’d get fired for doing a sloppy job.
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  22.  @blessingmasawi3616  To be fair with you, Zimbabwe has become a de-facto colony of China. In exchange for food, fuel, trucks, and other consumer goods. Zimbabwe has handed over its entire mineral wealth to China at discounted prices.
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  23. Their machinery keeps getting worse and worse too. You can’t even repair your own tractor without having to wait three months for a service tech to come down.
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  24.  @Valorince  No money for training people? Corporate profits keep going through the roof while labor keeps getting kicked to the curb. And no, most contractors won't just take you with no prior experience and train you. Many now require pre-apprenticeship training at a community college before taking you on.
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  25. So many of you commenters forget about the bankers and war profiteers. Sad.
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  26. I think that’s the reason why so many people aren’t buying used cars anymore. There are no guarantees and the lack of social trust makes everything even worse. BUT, thank you very much for the checklist!!! One of my family friends tried to buy a used car with only 12k miles on it (2023 Subaru crosstrek) and only did so because the used car dealer had warranty on that used car for up to 2 years (100k miles).
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  27. 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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  28. America is a vast corporation, not a sprawling empire. Everything is incorporated. Building a high society is an infinite game, not a “depreciating asset.”
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  29. If you live in Canada or the USA, you also have to factor in the mass immigration that has over saturated entire white collar and blue collar jobs. In Canada, average wages have gone down over the last 10 years thanks to Justin Trudeau disastrous immigration policy. We also have a housing crisis thanks to so many immigrants flooding in and home construction not being able to keep up. Most Canadian employers have forgotten what it means to compete for labor. I mean, why bother? When you’ve got so many immigrants arriving and not enough jobs/housing; they can take advantage of this influx to increase personal profits at the expense of everyone else.
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  30. America has way too many white collar labor and too few (highly experienced) blue collar labor. When it comes to maintaining buildings, you need design engineers, control technicians, and a variety of skilled tradesmen to get the job done. Property owners aren’t competitive for such maintenance labor, so they’re forced to use multiple contractors.
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  31. This is by far my most favourite food video on YT. So basic, so simple, yet high quality, large quantity food that comes out at one dollar. Amazing and well done by the two friends!
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  32. Not all trades are back breaking physical labor work. There is a reason why we use the term SKILLED for the trades. You need to have a mix of theory, hands on ability, love, and practical experience in order to excel in your given vocational field. Most trade fields; people really don’t know what they’re talking about. Folks think all an electrician does is install light bulbs. You don’t need an electrician to install light bulbs; you can pay a minimum wage unskilled, installer to put up light bulbs. Licensed Electricians are required to understand motors, control systems, automation, commercial practices etc. We live in a society where people don’t think enough before doing something.
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  33. Many small towns below 15k population have been abandoned after WW2. Many people have been displaced into suburbs, inner cities, farms, isolated gas stations, and car mechanic shops to earn their bread. Passenger railways have either been demolished or converted over to freight rails, so that’s another reason why townships are so car centric. Difficult to say what will happen in the future, as most of our infrastructure systems fall apart, interest on decades long debt accumulates more, and we have less skilled tradesmen to do the heavy lifting. We’re basically living in a century of decline.
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  34. ​ @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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  35. I’m pretty sure that was what Poland and Romania did as well. Poland gave Ukraine all of their old tanks, while they purchased new tanks from the USA, South Korea and Germany. Romania had a bunch of old artillery guns from the 1960s, that were given to Ukraine “for free” since they no longer had any use of such obsolete guns.
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  36. Yep!! That’s what I did two years ago!! My parents and grand parents were constantly telling me that a white collar, corporate pathway is a great career choice; not so much anymore! Never am I gonna return back to the corporate world. Not unless these private equity firms are rid of.
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  37. Thank you for comment and my gratitude goes out to you Jamaican folks too. America economic mess is not an issue of the blue collar labor force as many would want to believe. Rather, it is the fault of management for being short sighted, greedy, unknowledgeable etc. that has brought about a demise in many companies/jobs.
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  38. Stop blaming young people (Gen Z) for this and that. If your child is a failure, then you have failed as a parent. Simple as that, start taking responsibility. I’m a Gen Z young man myself and I know how to cook a stew from raw ingredients, bake bread and make pasta. I do this everyday because of how super expensive it is to eat out these days.
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  39. In France and Italy, many traditional forms of craftsmanship are still preserved but in America; these types of old crafts have been lost to history.
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  40. 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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  41. It’s not about re-living the 1950s of suburban sprawl. I deal with many contractors and developers on a regular basis; the common answer for a lack of infill projects and higher density buildings is due to technical labor shortages in HVAC controls. In other words, America produces 5 lawyers for every 1 engineer. For a low density home, you can easily hire a small scale HVAC technician for the job, but when it comes to larger facilities; you need a team of BAS technicians, Design Engineers, Controls Electricians, and highly specialized chiller/boiler mechanics in order to make the condo or apartment liveable and energy efficient. Right now, we have more than just a housing crisis.
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  42. 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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  43. This video reminds me of what my old man had to got through. He worked as a BAS technician doing HVAC Controls for a medium sized corporation (ESC Automation) for a few decades. Then suddenly, a private equity firm comes in a few months after the 2008 recession, buys up the entire corporation, and then begins selling off the company for higher profits. The moment the private equity firm took over my old man work place; half the employees were fired for so called “under performing”, and the other half of employees who remained had to work overtime (70+ hours per week) for no extra pay and no bonuses. My old man essentially became an overworked donkey slaving away for cents on the dollar until a private investor bought up ESC Automation Corp. from that private equity firm and allowed things to be turned around for the better.
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  44.  @roseze5830  Most people do not understand economies of scale and creativity. Only 20% of people graduating from university are needed for STEM or business management jobs. The other 80% of people should've never went to university and should've gone to community college or some sort of vocational training program instead. Introducing women into the workforce only adds more stress and pressure. So, as a young man, why would you do a business admin degree when a woman can get the same degree and is willing to work for a lower salary?
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  45. Supply and demand. Colleges are a business, not a charity institute. When too many people go to college for “useless degrees” such as psychology, sociology, gender studies, film making, computer science etc. Colleges can charge higher tuition fees while decreasing the quality of education.
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  46. Too much zoning codes, over reliance on lawyers to interpret zoning codes and an overall “engineering” labor shortage. Skilled trades shortage aside, for medium/high density buildings; you’re going to need a lot of HVAC engineers and BAS specialists to make higher density work. And right now, every American city cannot find enough of these professionals.
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  47. The automobile is no excuse for such destruction of beautiful architecture. Americans, in their pursuit for a “simpler and cheaper” way of living after the war and depression; allowed their cities to be demolished into parking lots. Such a tragedy.
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  48.  @tydude  Well done earning a bachelor of mechanical engineering! If you can’t find work, try taking some community college courses/certificates in machine tools or HVAC design. The hands on and practical theory offered by community colleges helps to build your resume. I had a friend who graduated with honours bachelor of civil engineering and couldn’t find work. So, he went to community college for one year to learn construction and met an instructor who gave him a civil engineering job!
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  49. 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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  50. Gen Z slander. It’s not just poor pay for corporate, white collar employees. The entire economy is really soft right now and there simply isn’t enough work.
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  51. Incremental development is what was needed in the urban areas of America in 1939. Put down bicycle lanes, trees, flowers, bushes, more public transit (i.e.: streetcars), and build more public parks (200 to 500 acres). There is no need to demolish financially productive neighborhoods in Chicago, NYC or the industrial towns of Philadelphia. Car dependent sprawl is a disaster. Check out Strong Towns.
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  52. Wow, that is very stunning! I’ve seen old Nazi movies like “Triumph of the Will”, “Olympia” and various WW2 German newsreels/documentaries. This is truly a gem you found! Thank you for sharing!
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  53. Wow, thanks for sharing your experience with Brazilian steel. I never knew that Brazil produced some of its own steel. In regards to American steel being bad quality, that is an engineering and management issue. Everyone blames the blue collar workers, but America can’t even produce enough engineers in its educational system to begin with…
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  54.  @WillieFungo  When did I ever say I was from Sweden? You’re putting words in my mouth. I’m from America, not Sweden, so yeah, I’d be pretty worried about American technical-creative skill set decline.
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  55. As someone who has worked in the construction trades; there are several misconceptions many people have about the “skilled trades.” The trades aren’t for everyone. Most folks confuse trades for “middle tier skillsets.” Nobody will take on an apprentice in the construction trades unless there are enough engineers and work going around. Any economic downturns and you as the construction apprentice get laid off immediately for months in end. Construction is in the service sector, not the industrial sector. You cannot absurd a tremendous amount of labor into construction.
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  56.  @MrToradragon  Regardless of where you live in the world, its the same trend everywhere. It amazes me how little you older folks care while demanding the best services be given exclusively to you. I've meet Japanese, Taiwanese, Chinese, Thai, Korean and Middle Eastern students studying here in America tell me the same things too. Their grand parents were all middle school drop outs, but could afford a modest home and a few children. Their parents only had vocational training at college and were able to do well. Meanwhile you've got all these young people with Master degrees from university working low skill or unskilled jobs with skyrocketing student loan debts. It's crazy!
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  57. I’m surprised that Aqua farms (raising fish in a given area of the ocean) has not become more popular.
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  58. If you’re going to be a car mechanic or auto tech; work on high end luxury cars that are designed in an over complicated manner. That’s where the money is at with wealthy customers who don’t know anything about their BMW or Mercedes car. As for a machinist, if you specialize in automation and robotics, the pay is good. But if you’re a “traditional machinist” working on average metal items; then the pay isn’t going to be great (unless you’re in the union).
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  59. Auto technicians were paid $15/hour back in the 1970s (equivalent of earning $70/hour in today money). Then comes Auto Nation in the 1990s who are shocked to see that auto techs “earn so much money” and begin reducing the tech pay while requiring them to buy their own tools. Many workers quit after that and now there is complaint about “labor shortages.” There are no labor shortages. If there were, we’d see higher wages, higher benefits and greater emphasis on workplace training.
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  60. Try doing pre-apprenticeship first and then start applying. Other guys have ruined it for the younger cohorts like you.
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  61. This is really good journalism, as in, you the viewer are also made to feel the heavy psychological effects of the ordinary people/soldiers in this wasteful conflict.
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  62.  @tealkerberus748  Exactly what Scott Galloway mentioned in his recent Ted Talk. Too many people are looking for ways to "increase my compensation while decreasing my accountability." That is why all of America is in rapid collapse.
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  63. Modernist architecture will never be enduring.
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  64. You also have to take into account that by the 1980s, American industry could only hire a fraction of the engineers they so desperately needed to implement new technology. You can only hire x amount of blue collar workers based on how many engineers you’ve already got. This is more than just American labor unions…
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  65.  @hockheekwek8431  Many of those young graduates were told all their early lives that working manual labor or blue collar or construction trades is disgraceful and retarded. It's not just overcoming an economic barrier to entry, but also improving your psychology.
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  66. Very fascinating history! Thank you for sharing your experiences!
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  67. Very depressing that we lost our trolley buses, streetcars and passenger trains.
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  68. Harris and Trump are both really bad. We need to work locally and incrementally to endure these tough times.
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  69. Damn, just discovered your channel and so far, your videos are amazing! Well done! Keep up the good work!
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  70. I quit my corporate job as an engineering technician two years ago, because I started seeing things that were unsettling. If there were an actual “labor shortage”; why are wages stagnant, benefits nowhere to be seen, and educational training non-existent? I’m glad I left, since now we see in full effect, private equity firms destroying entire corporations for personal profits.
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  71.  @dvdv8197  I voted for Donald Trump back in 2016. I was super disappointed when he did nothing to solve our crumbling infrastructure. Now, I don’t care about either party. They’re all “two sides of the same coin.” Of course, we have to hold our local politicians accountable. But from now, it’s all about working incrementally instead of relying on the federals for assistance.
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  72. Not surprised by what you say. Canadian banks did a recent study on high immigration levels and found that high immigration is not driving economic development. 85% of new jobs are taken by native born Canadians or immigrants who have been living in Canada for more than 10+ years. A lot of newcomers are either under employed or unemployed. Things will only get worse as the Canadian economy has been constantly shrinking since 2020.
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  73. While your efforts are noble, Britain has lost all of its industrial economy. Most folks going into apprenticeships go for construction (service sector) jobs. You don’t need that much labor in the service sector; especially the construction trades.
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  74. Canadian here! I love your videos! Let me be honest, most of Canada has already been taken over by the USA. Britain was in economic decline well before World War One and after World War Two, the British Empire was essentially wiped out (bankrupted). Our economy has always been heavily dependent upon exporting resources to the USA or relying upon American commercial/industrial giants such as Ford/GM for economic vitality. Also, in many Canadian cities (especially Toronto, Ontario) you’ll see MANY Americans from New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and even Florida doing business or visiting the city as tourists.
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  75.  @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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  76. USA does not have the manpower or enough technical expertise anymore for skilled pilots, mechanics, technicians, logistics personnel etc. The USA has already started to focus more on drones and small teams of electromechanical technicians and operators for such drones.
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  77.  @trerio6815  “Personal responsibility” only goes so far. For many young people, their parents, teachers, siblings etc. forced them into college and giving up their childhood time towards “pushing paperwork.” Parents are at fault as well. After all that studying and 5+ years of college for a Masters degree; one is easily demoralized when they’re told, “no such white collar jobs exist, so just go learn a trade.” You can’t go from spending 25 years of “pushing paperwork” and studying theory all day; to suddenly be working hands on as a commercial plumber.
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  78. The end of WW2 brought about all this “quick and cheap” short sighted ideas of reinforced concrete. So much needed to be rebuilt as fast as possible for little cost, so most countries went the short sighted route that is now having disastrous consequences on us.
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  79. 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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  80. Wow, as a young man who was raised in a middle class family; I cannot believe there are such garbage people out there like this!! Thank you for sharing your story, and God Bless you! More parents need to watch this and take responsibility for their children!
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  81. This is a very difficult video to watch... their life story really hit me, and the psychological shock is not something that is easy to take in. God bless these children! The parents are guilty for mistreating and abandoning their children like that!
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  82. Good for you! I’m starting to see more university dropouts go to community colleges to pursue something more worthwhile.
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  83. Scott Galloway did a phenomenal Ted Talk about the wealth transfer from young to old in the US.
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  84. 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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  85. This is shocking and really psychologically stuns you. Thank you for sharing this video and God help those men who are going through heroin addiction.
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  86. Regulations won’t improve anything. We need to re-learn old wisdom from old timers.
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  87. USSR never had the industrial capacity, economy of scale or logistics to sustain such a massive military war against the Western Allies. Famous Soviet tanks like the T34 were built with American sheet steel, and Soviet aircraft were produced with American aluminum. The moment Hitler invaded the USSR, supply/logistics problems immediately occurred for the Red Army.
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  88.  @trippybruh1592  3% is enough for defensive action, but nothing too major of an offensive ability.
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  89.  @FirstNameLastName-wt5to  Rather arrogant of you to be saying that. Someone who recently graduated form law school needs to be interned under an experience lawyer for (minimum) one year before they can go out on their own. Same story with medical professionals and engineers who also have to be interned for one or two years under the wing of an experience professional before that graduate student can go out on their own.
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  90. American public policy of pushing wealthy people into the countryside and poor people into city centres was a public disaster for many reasons. Wealthy folks have the money to maintain high rises while poor people do not.
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  91.  @thaneros  Sounds like you don’t live in North America. In areas where there are jobs, there isn’t any affordable housing options. In other areas of the U.S, where there are affordable housing options; there are no jobs. And if you factor in car dependency and high fuel prices; no individual young person can survive alone. What most folks are missing is community.
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  92. To be fair, they can hold most of us hostage because most folks live in car dependent suburbia. Many cannot do basic things without a private car.
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  93.  @Darknova591  American car makers are more interested in selling $100k luxury trucks than practical work vehicles.
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  94.  @TheMarketExit  I see more people tuning out and going alternate paths as things continue to get worse. It will reach a point when the “market” caps out and nobody can afford anything. That’s when parallel societies begin to truly shine in their endurance.
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  95.  @nick15684  Amen!! Keep on preaching!! Too many people think that college is the end all of your education. It’s not! College is there to assist your education, but there are STILL many other lessons to be learned outside the classroom.
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  96. Same here. Never understood how parents could pressure/shame their child into doing a degree that has little to no employments prospects, high student loan debt, and why make such a massive gamble for several years ahead of your future?
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  97. Stagnant wages and inflation.
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  98. Baby boomers never had to deal with such high inflation that younger folks in Gen Z are having to deal with. I've seen archive films from the 1960s/70s/80s of grocery store prices; you could get a big shopping cart full of groceries for only $20!! These days, $20 at a grocery store only gets you a few items.
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  99.  @dkis8730  Sounds like your a cranky shop owner, Lol.
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  100.  @FirstNameLastName-wt5to  It’s not just the law profession. You see that exact same standard with medical doctors, teachers, professors, engineers, pilots, etc. etc. But what really upsets me are the guys who have ruined the barrier of entry for everyone else with their short sighted thinking.
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  101.  @whitewolfcrowley6550  We still train infantry squads, armored units and support personnel because of small scale skirmishes that occur here and there. In an all out military war, I can see the US military deploying hundreds of thousands of drones all at once to bomb or strafe enemy logistics while the soldiers on the ground fight defensively against enemy units. Many don't realize how fast things have changed. It is no longer about man vs man, but rather, technics vs man.
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  102. @ Lol, I love the cheap excuses all you modernists make up. “The craftsman labor isn’t there! It’s too expensive to design using classical proportions! We have population targets to reach.” Lol Not everything is about “numbers.” You can get that same figure of 6k or higher with old school architecture and designs.
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  103. Bean counters replacing engineers at Boeing. Nothing new under the sun. This happened to GM back in the ‘70s. GM engineers were all replaced with accountants and their well trained auto mechanics/technicians were replaced with dropouts.
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  104.  @mevans4953  U.S industrial productivity was already declining in the 1960s. Just look at how GM and Ford produced terrible cars back then in the 1970s. America industrial rise was thanks to high tariffs imposed on imported goods. When those tariffs were removed, that was when our manufacturing base declined.
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  105. These “high density buildings” are not enduring. He emphasized endurance in his video. Newly constructed, high density buildings all use reinforced concrete; a building material that won’t last more than 50 years. We’re constantly building and demolishing reinforced concrete high rises every 50 years. So how can that be sustainable from an ecological and human standpoint? Medium density construction on the other hand, uses traditional (enduring) construction materials such as stainless steel, brick, stone masonry, and lumber that can last more than 100+ years. A good example to learn from are the railroad buildings of New York or the Chrysler building. Well designed, beautiful and well located with maintenance being minimal compared to land value costs.
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  106. Another problem is supply chain problems now. I wanted to get a VW golf hatchback or maybe a Subaru station wagon. Neither the VW or Subaru dealerships could get what I wanted right away. They told me I’d have to wait 6 months to 2 years. The only dealerships that had cars ready to drive off the lot were GM and Ford. Kind of crazy that the moment I told the salesman I work construction (apprentice electrician), they tried selling me a ridiculously oversized pickup truck that nobody uses for construction. In the end, I choose a Chevy Equinox because even though it’s an SUV; it was smaller and more compact than the other SUVs on the lot (no sedans offered by either Ford or GM car dealers).
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  107.  @pripri3404  I wouldn’t call these university degrees “worthless subjects.” Most folks don’t know how to think and plan ahead in terms of 5, 10 or even 15 years from when they apply to a four year college. For example, a four year degree in mechanical engineering is not a worthless degree. That type of degree all depends on your location. If you’re out in Seattle, Washington with a mechanical engineering degree. You can find a job in aerospace without any major problems. If you earned your mechanical engineering degree in an area such as Chicago, Illinois. Then you’d better take a community college certificate afterwards to find work doing machine tools.
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  108.  @bchristian85  “Cheaper to do it”… yeah that’s the short sighted mentality that we currently have. And it’s a big problem!
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  109. Sad part is, the only winners of this conflict is all the blood money made for the bankers, weapons producers, and mercenaries hired to train or fight.
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  110. @TheMyrmo Intentional on whose part??? We live in a society ruled by sociopaths, narcissists, sadists, and psychopathic criminals of all sorts!! There are people out there who are very ecstatic over our suffering/misery.
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  111. The Netherlands has a well designed public transit system. We don’t have that here in the USA. So we have to own a car and drive a car in order to survive. This adds to the burden of many people.
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  112. By the 1980s, the American army was already giving out remedial reading, writing and arithmetic classes to its new recruits; thanks to a heavy diet of TV consumption. Also in the 1980s, industries across the U.S could only hire a fraction of the engineers they so desperately needed due to the immense dumbing down. This has been going on for a long time…
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  113.  @alexisgarcia1344  I’m old enough to remember a time when America public schools taught reading and writing using McGuffey’s books. We also had shop classes that taught carpentry, automotive mechanics, home economics, personal finance etc. Obviously, not everyone needs to know the difference between a diesel and combustion engine. But nobody knows how to cook an egg anymore.
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  114. Yes and no. America had a mismatch of skill sets starting in the 1970s because since the 1950s, it has been a “every able bodied person to university.” America has lost its expertise in many things like pneumatic HVAC control systems, facility maintenance and high trained glassmakers for scientific apparatus. And most Americans don’t even realize it.
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  115. Awesome video as always! I visited China in 2014 and 2019. You simply cannot compare China to America, UK, Australia or any other nation right now!!
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  116. From watching all these videos, it seems to me that nobody knows how to prioritize “maintenance” over “new construction”. We’ve developed this bad habit of disposability for everything. And many men and women also don’t know how to “fix something” that is broken. We live in such a throw away culture, where everything is sent to the landfill instead of being repaired, recycled and given a second life.
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  117. Thank you for making this video and sharing your story! I went technical community college and got an associate degree in electromechanical engineering technology. I’ve been working as a welding engineer for the last 7+ years dealing with industrial robotics. Most people don’t realize that we live a time (that can be described as) “a high speed police chase.” A lot of stuff going behind the scenes that many folks don’t realize… AI is replacing many white collar jobs and robots will be replacing many service/blue collar jobs too. Middle skillsets are the way to go.
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  118.  @silasmartin5210  Because of such poor work ethics and the complete lack of education in America public schools; both union and non-union contractors aren't looking for someone with "no experience". You're basically asked to do a pre-apprenticeship certificate at community college before even bothering to apply for jobs. Then when you are taken on, its 4-5 years of apprenticeship (on the job work and training). Along with going back to school after x amount of on the field work. But during your apprenticeship, you encouraged to ask as many questions as possible (without slowing down work) and to learn as much as possible because when you're a journeyman; you're expected to understand many things going on. Skilled trades isn't for everyone and he was simply giving out a warning to those who think a plumber or electrician or carpenter is an "over glorified, unskilled installers work."
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  119. 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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  120. I think this film was designed for technicians, logistics personnel, and contract tradesmen. Not four year college bound engineering students. Community college and vocational schools teach way less theory than state college, so industry has to "help" their rookies with this technical documentary.
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  121. That is very sad and awful.
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  122.  @mostwantedmotor  What you say is very true. A lot of folks will buy or lease a new luxury car every 3 years just to avoid all the hassle with maintenance. But with the right financial conditions (economic downturns), not even wealthy folks will want to buy a new car. It’s way cheaper to repair an older vehicle if interest rates are very high. Ford tried to sell a bunch of luxury pickup trucks for $90k and nobody was interested in forking over that much money for transportation.
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  123. Human Resources are all a bunch of drones who don’t know anything. A buddy of mine works as a software developer and he’s seen HR staff demand 5-10 years work experience for a piece of software that’s been out for less than 2 years.
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  124.  @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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  125.  @HuyHTX  I get what you're trying to go at, but its gotten to the point where its getting impossible to just "hop around". Which is why many people (including myself) don't want to work at a corporate job anymore.
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  126. It’s not weird, buddy. Asia is following the 1950s American style of education of “every able bodied person must go to 4 year college and graduate school.” You only need 20% of young people going into university and then onto a white collar career. The other 80% should be doing a “middle skill set” career such as automotive mechanics, service technician, plumber etc. China is already experiencing a shortage of professionals with middle skill sets, just like America.
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  127. 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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  128. The reason why New York Coty is experiencing big gentrification is because the USA has mostly become car centric, low density suburban. New York is one of the few places where strip malls, parking lots, etc. did not get built in large numbers. While there was demolition in New York, it wasn’t as much compared to other regions of the USA.
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  129.  @vannavanity1195  Labor shortages can have a few meanings. For the “republicans”, it’s used as an excuse for higher immigration quotas in order to further depress wages of many fields of work.
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  130.  @Bruceman17  USA, yes, but for Canada, no. Labor shortages could have several different meanings.
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  131.  @blaiseutube  Pre-apprenticeship can have different meanings based on where you live. In Ontario, Canada a pre-apprenticeship in the union is paid and you learn all the basics before jumping into a real apprenticeship. Pre-apprenticeship could also mean doing a community college trade certificate first before you start applying. It all depends, just do your own research.
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  132.  @xenosayain1506  Globalization. It’s easier and cheaper to hire someone else from somewhere else who will do it for a fraction of the cost that the employer would have you (a local) to do it.
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  133.  @jcdesantis69  That might be the case for certain white collar professions, thanks to decades of treating employees like tradable commodities. I’ve taken on and trained several Gen Z electrical apprentices. And let me tell you, these guys are passionate about their work.
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  134. That sounds amazing! I’m jealous!
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  135. The tribe is not interested in doing that.
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  136. Justin Trudeau said a few years ago that Canada is the first post-national state with open borders and open land that’s up for grabs. Trump is just responding right now to that.
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  137. The British were chess players? LOL So much for losing the British Empire to destroy Germany, which never threatened the British to begin with.
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  138. Modernist architects also tend to blur the lines between urban and rural, which all turns into an ugly mess that nobody likes.
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  139. Thank you for making this video! Very inspiring! I’m 23 years old, struggling with the economic mess out there, but this is very encouraging! God bless you my good sir!
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  140. Back when America produced its own products, manufactured goods and possessed the highly talented professionals.
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  141. Blue collar labor is not the issue. It’s the lack of foresight, and the lack of technical planning by management. 80% of America industrial and commercial problems is the fault of management. Not the fault of the workers or a lack of machinery. If you really want to drive down the cost mediocre furniture, you can easily use automation/robotics to do so. High quality furniture will always be expensive because skilled craftsman labor will never be cheap.
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  142. Thanks for sharing this video. I’ve never been to Austin, Texas. So this is a good video for the historical records.
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  143. Wow! Excellent film, and thank you for posting! I really love the fashion, art deco, and technical developments of 1939! It is a shame how America (soon afterwards) put more effort and money into developing military weapons, instead of urban planning and education.
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  144. Did you drive a 2006 Chevy suburban? Or was that another car brand? For many newer cars, the engine pistons and piston rings are so thin/light that it only takes a little bit of bad oil to ruin the whole engine.
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  145. Since the First Industrial Revolution, Britain money system is run by private banks who make profit by charging high interest. Before the creation of the "Federal Reserve Bank" (bloated interest debts), America financed wars, transportation and infrastructure by units of Gold or Silver. It was only during the Civil War, that you had Abraham Lincoln drop the Gold Standard, and temporarily replace Gold with "Units of Labor". Workers, managers and soldiers were paid on how their productive labor performance in the factory or out on the battlefield. On top of that, the Union had 95% of America Industrial base, whereas the South had less than 5% of heavy industry.
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  146. Well said!!
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  147. You really think all this modernist (minimalist) garbage is enduring? We’re demolishing and re-building concrete structures every 50 years because the materials used for such buildings are not meant to be long lasting. Also, you don’t need to be so highly experienced to design Art Deco. Art Deco is simply fine arts taken from an industrial perspective.
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  148. 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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  149. Strong Towns is a wonderful organization and has brought to light many great ideas. However, there are many other key info that most folks don’t understand. At the end of the day, building more railroad towns, streetcar suburbs, triplex rentals etc. won’t fix our underlying financial/economic problems. The price of homes are not going up. It’s the value of the dollar that is decreasing. Since 1913, the American dollar has lost 95% of its purchasing power. It won’t take long for the dollar to lose its remaining 5% purchasing power. In 1900, trades people were everywhere. These days, we’re running thin on the ground. Our decline in technical-creative skillsets means we cannot rapidly build more housing, jobs, transit etc. to meet growing demand.
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  150. What a tragedy…
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  151.  @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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  152. That was an amazing video! Loved the ending speech too! “Don’t chase money, chase what you love” is a superb motto.
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  153.  @eugenetswong  Most cities in North America have poor public transit because of too many transit codes that need to first be interpreted by a team of lawyers before the engineers/technicians can even start to do any design work. It is also common for small shop and medium sized contractors to decline many jobs because getting the city permits for new home construction or a home renovation is time consuming and very expensive. If they cannot reach a profit margin of 15%, they won't take on the work because of too much risk associated with regulations and the courts.
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  154.  @__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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  155. Garden beds, wooded areas in cities, public parks, preserving of natural water ways, spacious sidewalks and bike lanes are all good starters to work with. I hate seeing everything so cemented up into dull, ugly places where nobody wants to be.
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  156.  @MikeDrop136  America has the wrong professionals in the wrong jobs. Technical professionals are meant for support, while Non-technical professionals (i.e.: craftsmen) are meant for leadership roles. Civil engineers are not capable of grasping urban complexity, psychology of people or community beauty. The best cities found all over Europe/Asia were ALL designed by local artists, tradesmen, craftsmen, traditional architects, and non-technical urban planners. Civil engineers are only needed for design of water/sewage systems and logistical transit. It is time for America to adapt some form of Ethical Socialism.
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  157.  @IcelanderUSer  Not true whatsoever about "blue states" funding "red states". We've built many dense urban areas that are NOT financially productive; that require subsidies (paid by red state farmers/ranchers) to stay afloat. We've also built many low density places that are very financially productive. For example: grain farms that export hundreds of billions of dollars worth of cereals and never take any subsidy money from the federal government.
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  158.  @IcelanderUSer  Also, you people in New York may not drive or own a private car. But all of your food, clothing, furniture etc. (all the shit that you want) gets shipped to you by freight trucks travelling on interstate freeways! Since American rail systems are completely unreliable.
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  159. Thank you for sharing your story! It’s the same situation in my field too. I work as a low voltage electrician doing automation, and HVAC controls. HVAC systems used to be done by union pipe fitters (pneumatic technicians) from the plumbing trade back in the 50s, 60s and 70s. By the 80s, we were losing our experience with pneumatic HVAC systems and got electronic techs to do HVAC systems. By the 2010s, most electronic techs retired or died off (like all the pneumatic techs) and now we have computer techs from IT doing HVAC control systems. Nothing wrong with computer techs, but the older pneumatic and electronic techs designed HVAC systems that were far easier to repair than what we’re seeing today.
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  160. 25 year old Canadian here (working in the skilled trades) and you missed some major pieces of evidence in this video. The vast majority of immigrants coming into Canada cannot find work in their field of study and have to take on unskilled, menial work. This can be seen with the fact that 85% of new jobs are taken by native born Canadians or immigrants who have been living in Canada for well over 10+ years. Major banks in Canada (BMO, TD, Scotia etc.) did a study on this and found that high levels of immigration is not helping anyone.
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  161.  @IKVKronosOne  Employers have forgotten what it means to “compete for labor” due to an oversupply of high and low skilled labor everywhere. Middle skillsets are the way to go.
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  162. I love these old films showing off blue collar workers, and amazing vocations in machine tools! A damn shame they don’t make these types of films anymore!
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  163. Fixing a stroad can also mean rezoning the land use around the area, increase the reliability of public transit buses, etc.
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  164. Same here!!! I feel you bro!! The same thing happened to me as well when I was finishing high school!! We had many representatives come in and talk to us about how great university is and the few of us who did not apply to university were sidelined and totally left out!! This was even the late 2000s! I ended up doing community college, but still did great!
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  165.  @DiamondKingStudios  Those politicians would feel indifferent because they’re not public servants. They’re self serving servants living off the public.
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  166.  @bw9382  I don’t know about white collar unions, but certain blue collar unions like plumbers are going strong in these turbulent times.
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  167.  @clray123  “I don’t understand why kids are so lazy these days. I bought my first house for 50k at age 22, and then paid off the mortgage in 5 years time. By age 25, I was already married and this was just working 40 hours per week at an ordinary job. Kids these days just don’t have work ethics anymore.”
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  168.  @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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  169.  @inmydelorean6025  You claimed America is a “free market economy” which has not been the case since the end of WW2. It’s a well understood fact among federal funded traffic engineers, automotive companies, fast food franchises and freeways getting priority above all else. Before WW2, the small/medium scale private sector built, managed and ran everything. Now it’s the federal government. Yes, American computer/software/IT employees get paid far more than their European counterparts. But that’s because it is America that launched the microelectronics revolution in 1947, not Europe. America also created the first commercial computer and spent a lot of money in the development of transistors. That is why you guys in IT are well paid. Other sectors in America are struggling, have collapsed, or in severe decline.
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  170.  @inmydelorean6025  Russia was not the first to send equipment into space. That was first accomplished by Hitler Germany in 1944 during initial trial runs for high powered German rockets/missiles. The USSR never had the scientific-technical expertise to do such a daunting project. The entire American and Russian space agencies were built, then run by German rocket scientists/engineers. Not American or Russian specialists. As for Russia itself, its engineering arm collapsed in the 1980s which is why Russia is struggling to fight a conventional war in Ukraine right now. They simply don't have the engineers required to produce any significant number of tanks, aircraft etc. Going back to the original argument, your statement (at this point in time) is not entirely true. That so called "free economy" really depends on what region you're in. And sure, you can talk about Elon Musk and overall GDP growth. But even "wealthy places" such as Silicon Valley and Texas horribly struggle with basic infrastructure maintenance, public services and bad priorities from the federal/state level. That shows that GDP growth or Elon Musk's is not a measure of "free economy" in America. We have a vast amount of regulations, ordinances, planning etc. highly dictated by the federal government.
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  171. It’s a similar situation here in North America. Unless you have strong social connections through friends, family, relatives, co-workers etc. you won’t be able to find any work related to what you studied in school. The only exception to that is if there is an economic boom going on in a particular sector (I.e.: Real Estate), then most companies will hire anyone off the street to fulfill the growing amount of work.
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  172.  @resetsetmefree478  Streetcars and subway systems provide mass transit, not buses. In terms of expressways, you could only use it for two purposes: private car or coach bus. Coach buses only ran from city to city, while private cars are limited based on financial income and family needs. During times of prosperity, America is wasteful and inconsiderate. But when a recession hits, America really suffers from its short-sighted behaviors.
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  173.  @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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  174.  @richeytony21  The American Empire has always supported global communism. The Republic before the Civil War is the one that most Americans ought to be returning back to.
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  175. The United States of America is an incorporated business, not a nation-state. Same can be said with every state, city, county etc. They’re all corporations who don’t have any responsibility to the people.
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  176. Depending on what region you live in, there are only a certain amount of engineers and lawyers that are needed. If there is excess, then you won’t find a job unless you’re willing to work self-employed. Likewise, the same can be said with apprenticeships. Only a certain number of apprentices will get accepted based on the needs of a local economy. If there is downturn, then the guys with the least experience get laid off while the journeyman’s and master tradesmen with the most years of experience are kept. You have to do your own critical thinking and careful research before making any gambles.
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  177. Don’t be surprised by how your friend was treated while working as an auto mechanic. When GM replaced its engineers with accountants and replaced highly trained auto technicians/mechanics with high school dropouts back in the 1970s/80s. American cars went from best in the world to becoming a joke.
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  178. You can learn a lesson from the Amish and Mennonites about raising big families.
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  179. Japan would have lost either way. China had no willingness to surrender no matter how bad or how terrible things got. In a protected war involving endurance, the Japanese would have lost. Japan did not have the manpower, the will, or the resources to keep such a lengthy war going. The Second Sino Japanese is in (many ways) the same as the Pacific campaign waged by the US. It’s one thing to attack and take territory, but it is a whole other issue with holding what territory you’ve gained.
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  180. I work as a journeyman electrician doing new construction work for residential-commercial properties. It’s interesting to see how the HVAC systems and fire alarms have changed over the years. I remember my old man telling me that back then, HVAC was all based on pneumatic controls. Now it’s all electronic systems. There were hardly any fire alarms used back then (aside from water sprinklers), but now we’ve got smoke detectors on each floor.
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  181.  @brianh9358  Two sides of the same coin.
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  182. @ Building maintenance labor is pretty thin on the ground these days. Those who do get into maintenance of buildings, tend to work as contractors because property owners are not competitive.
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  183.  @JR-fl3yx  I’ve done HVAC work for many school/college properties as a controls technician over the years. The one common pattern found everywhere is that property owners will complain about the high costs of the utility bills, but won’t spend more money on maintenance and servicing their building. They’re eager to spend ten million dollars on internet but won’t spend a dime more on maintenance, Lol.
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  184. There are not enough jobs to go around anymore. Simple as that! Why increase the labor pool (I.e. higher immigration quotas) when you’ve offshored so many white and blue collar jobs overseas?
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  185. That’s what happens when you allow corporate businesses to become gigantic. They form up monopolies and hurt everyone. In many other countries, the government will accept small and medium sized enterprises. However, for large enterprises, they always nationalize it to avoid these types of problems.
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  186. We get these dumb excuses here in North America because of how dumbed down everyone is, Lol. Most people cannot understand the concepts you offer because they lack the fundamental reading, writing, reasoning and calculation skills needed for a modern society with many things going on.
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  187. They forgot to mention that the North American Aviation Design Bureau was lead by a German-American man by the name of James H. Kindleberger. He lead the company to great financial success, and had designed many iconic American aircraft of the 1940s, 50s and 60s. B-25 Mitchell bomber, P-51 Mustang, F-86 Sabre and the F-100 Phantom were just a few examples of aircraft single handedly designed by James H. Kindleberger. It turns out the Anglo-American could not compete against German designers, and had to use a German from America to beat the Germans in Germany.
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  188. “Race to the bottom”
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  189.  @Sirpass.Skateboards  I live in Ontario, Canada and I feel your pain as well. Our entire economy is based on real estate speculation and there are no other meaningful jobs outside of real estate speculation. We’re squeezed to zero with such disastrous policies.
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  190.  @vejet  Haha, just wait several more years and you’ll start seeing more people living in tents. It’s gonna get worse.
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  191. Good video! Another thing that many don’t realize are the amount of seed oils, refined sugar, and bleached wheat products found in today food products. These three ingredients are another contributor to the many health problems experienced by men today. The moment I cut out seed oils from my diet, I no longer had any inflammation issues.
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  192. Sounds to me that you are advocating “Ethical Socialism” based on the German model of educational training, skilled labor, and small business operations. In Germany, only 20% of youngsters go to university for a degree while the other 80% are given vocational training in theory, hands on aptitude, and small business operations. In other words, the 80% of German youth are trained to think and act independently as a craftsman.
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  193.  @Heywoodthepeckerwood  That’s the excuse I hear from many folks nowadays. For younger folks with little credit history, we need a co-signer for a new car or we’re stuck looking for a modest used car at an affordable price.
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  194. Thanks for this quick video. Matthew Hussey work is gold and silver in this day.
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  195. 1000% agree!!!
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  196. 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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  197. A friend of mine started in the skilled trades (electrician) back in the mid 1990s, in Alberta oil and gas. He told me he was and still is well paid due to nobody wanting to go into the trades. Even these days, it’s hard to get in without a union or relate work experience.
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  198.  @alexisgarcia1344  You might have been the last generation of folks who had some sort of exposure to shop classes. My nephew graduated high school way back in ‘88. He took carpentry classes but he told me that by then; most shop classes had already been removed from high school. I agree with you 100%. Public high schools and colleges use exploitive marketing to trap people in debt. Nowadays, most college graduates can’t even find the Pacific Ocean on a world map. So what’s the point of all that time and money spent?
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  199.  @xiphoid2011  2008 US economic recession is nothing compared to the economic decline and labor mismatch experienced in America during the mid 1970s, early 1980s, and mid 1990s. We had the vast financial wealth to "manage through" those decades, but now we do not and many are paying the price. By the 1970s, America already had a skilled labor shortage in many critical fields, such as pneumatic HVAC controls. These pressing labor shortages were never seriously addressed until recent years because that is how awful things have become. And the so called "high wages" in some skilled or blue collar jobs is mostly due to continued skills mismatch. ** That side story aside, my point is, China is facing a similar societal decline as America. And yes, I've seen labor reports of how industrial mechanics in China now earn more money than someone with a mechanical engineering degree from a top tier university.
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  200. Thanks for this update. It should be interesting to see where things will go from here.
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  201. 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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  202. Canada used to take in 200k immigrants per year. Now we’re headed up to over a million per year, without any extra housing being built.
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  203. The Union used its vast material wealth (manpower and industrial) to defeat the Confederacy, not big buck$.
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  204. For the USA, Streetcar Suburbs from pre WW2 are the best way to go. Europe economy is varied and has different standards, compared to that of America, which was founded and gained momentum in the industrial age.
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  205. Upon watching a few documentaries and reading several books about the Pacific Campaign; I started to realize that the Japanese had spent a lot of money, resources and manpower building up their navy and Air Force branches, but neglected the army in so many ways. The IJA were using WW1 German Mauser rifles (obsolete by the 1930s), French WW1 heavy machine guns (obsolete by the 1920s), wore Austro-Hungarian inspired army uniforms, and relied mostly on small howitzers for support. Their tanks were also old, outdated and never got upgraded. Yet, for most of WW2, the Japanese were relying heavily on their army to do difficult fighting.
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  206. What the British reporter fails to mention is that every year, Japanese companies such as Toyota give out Dr. Deming awards for merit, accomplishments and improvement. It was an American industrial engineer/statistician who taught the Japanese how to produce in high quality.
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  207. Community Colleges provide what is needed for the local area. If you plan on doing some other career not found in your local area, then you're going to need to travel intra-nationally.
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  208. Car dealers have a big monopoly.
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  209. Same here!! Lol, I tried everything that I had and only made it worse. Glad I found this video and was able to get my rounded off bolt out of the oil pan.
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  210.  @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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  211.  @fairywingsonroses  Thanks for sharing your story! The same thing can be said with public school education! America used to invest heavily in education and we had all kinds of classes for wood working, carpentry, welding, automotive, science, foreign languages, math, home economics, personal finance etc. for anyone to come in and learn. Then we got rid of all that in the 1980z. and now complain about a declining educational standard and missing people from many vocations.
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  212. @ Once again, you make the exact same mistakes as what Dr. Deming mentioned. 80% of the problems are the fault of management, not the workers. Germany and Japan have a powerful manufacturing sector that employ millions while paying high wages. The only difference? Management is far better in Germany and Japan than in America. Stop blaming the workers for everything going wrong!
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  213.  @Thunderrolls87 The government and union can fight this corporate deal all they want, but it doesn’t change anything in the end. Decade by decade, America is losing its engineering and technical excellence on the world stage. Even if you guys were to strike down the the deal, the up and coming generation don’t have the educational capability to do such a massive industrial task.
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  214.  @annalau2596  The problem in North America is that we used to produce good quality products and services. Now, all we do is import everything while producing nothing significant of value. Back in the 1980s, when our textile, automotive etc. industries were faltering. We decided to throw it all away instead of improving what we had. It’s going to be tough re-building most of what we lost.
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  215. 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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  216. Wow! That is an amazing look into engine damage from lack of oil changes! Thank you so much for sharing this kind of video!!
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  217. The USA saved the USSR during WW2 with massive shipments of lend lease military aid. The Soviet economy could only produce less than a fraction of what was needed to fight Hitler. After WW2, the USA also saved the USSR many times with grain exports, technical library exports, and industrial blueprint sales to the Soviets. At the end of the day, Communism is nothing more than State Capitalism.
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  218.  @JuPiTeR_0211  Communism = State Capitalism
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  219.  @StevenHughes-hr5hp  Obviously, you are totally ignorant as to what the laws, government and founding principles of America are about.
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  220. Everything about the economy is very distorted thanks to financial manipulation (inflation), and a whole host of other misunderstandings by older folks. Your video reminded me of how I grew up as a Gen Z in the 2000s. Older people (including my parents) treating blue collar labor as scum bags and also treating service professionals as losers. These are the backbone professionals who build and maintain everything that we enjoy in life! Without such a powerful/robust industrial, construction, renovations and services sector; our economy would be in shambles! THAT is exactly what we’re seeing right now! It’s about time that many people reap the rotting fruits of their harvest!
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  221.  @turtle522  Good for your son and his friends. If you can get into an exclusive field, then you can earn a lot of money. But that is the problem with exclusive fields; only a limited few can go into such fields. We still need "average people" to do all the other important work that society requires.
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  222. That is the price we Americans have to pay in order to secure our national interests. Globalization is ridiculous since the beginning, when you’re producing products in a dozen different countries and having them shipped all around! One minor political action (civil war, corruption, etc.) and you’re forced to scramble to get your products “out in time.” Quite frankly, we’d much rather pay higher wages and benefits to a fellow American, than exploit a South Asian or Chinese or Mexican child labourer! The pain staking, incrementally built up manufacturing, and techno-industrial wealth in America is for Heritage Americans to enjoy! America only needs to import natural resources (I.e.: minerals) and thats all.
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  223. Canada as a nation; America has no need for. Canada as a 51st state would be very beneficial to America.
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  224.  @Rastaferrari829  We’re in a bad recession right now. When the economy goes downhill, skilled trades stop hiring and apprentices are all laid off.
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  225. Thank you for making this video! This is very beautiful town! The local folks and town certainly defied the modernist architect demand for ugliness and lane excuses! Bravo!
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  226. The American Interstate Freeways are a direct copy of Hitler Autobahn Highway System. The 1939 New York World Fair (featuring GM and car centric infrastructure of the future), were all inspired by an Austrian Artist from Germany.
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  227. Wow! Such well preserved piece of history! Thank you for sharing! This old film also looks very inspiring too!
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  228. 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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  229. Sounds like Canadian employers. Most Canadian employers have forgotten what it means to compete for skilled labor and instead, would rather use corporate mass immigration to get their workers.
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  230. After ww2, America attempted to address “urban blight” by pushing poor people around and focusing solely on new construction rather than on maintenance/renovation. It still one thing to build giant apartment blocks and suburban homes; but America has a tendency to neglect the maintenance bill.
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  231. Hexagons with triangles, square/rectangle grids, grand avenues, and lakeshore boulevards are what I really love about pre-WW2 era urban layout.
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  232. That was an awesome video! Thanks for posting! I loved the ending music too!
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  233. I hear you. The same thing happened to my old man who worked in a corporate job as a BAS technician.
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  234. Most Americans have abandoned suburbia to live in pre-WW2 era cities or small towns. America no longer has the money to prop up such dysfunctional car infrastructure anymore. Rural American folks hate the city politics and all the nonsense that happens in American cities. All being said, it’s about time we dissolve the American Empire.
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  235.  @shadowkillz9606  Getting a 67 year old retired boomer to do military logistics is a joke. On top of that, everywhere I go, old people outnumber young people 10 to 1. And we all know how young people are less patriotic, less intelligent, less physically strong, and less capable than their forefathers.
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  236.  @ligametis  So you want a nature band-aid to make up for the ugly and shoddy modernist architecture design?
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  237.  @ligametis  Old towns are a bad example of planning? Have you forgotten that Central Park exists in New York City? Have you forgotten about the roadside trees, bushes, potted flowers and the grassy small parks of the streetcar suburbs?
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  238. @Green-Knight22-d8y The greatest salesman is able to sell you something without you ever realizing that you bought into the sale.
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  239. The car lobby is not the one responsible for America car dependency. You can thank the feds and traffic engineers for keeping this disaster going for so long.
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  240. @ Thanks for sharing your story. A lot of folks get “stuck in life” and remain stagnant; totally oblivious to the changing world around them. We have windows of opportunities that we don’t want to miss or else we simply stagnate and fall behind in everything. It’s really tough to change vocations or learn a new academic subject at age 38 compared to someone at age 28. And that’s the problem that I see with many people around me. After their initial four year college or masters program, they go out and take whatever job there is available for the sake of money. Now, money is good and fine and you need it, but I see a lot of folks waste years on a job that’s dead end. If you run into a problem at such a dead end job when you hit your 40s, it means your in trouble if you got nothing to fall back on.
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  241. I’m single, working as an electrician and experiencing the same problems as you are. I earn $80k per year but 40% gets taxed by government, rent is $2.5k per month and for a few bags of groceries; I’m paying $150. After all that, I can barely save a few thousand dollars per year.
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  242.  @nlibby5549  I'm up in Canada and that was a recent grocery store shopping of 3 bags of basic food items at No Frills. Regardless of where I go, its all f*ckin expensive.
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  243.  @gregorymalchuk272  The issue is too many people studying the same degrees (i.e.: sociology) that will never be in high demand. By the 1980s, American industry could only hire a fraction of the engineers needed to implement new technical systems. It’s only gotten worse since the 1980s as the average attention spans, IQ, and technical-creative skillsets decline all over the West.
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  244. 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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  245. I find it amazing how everyone thinks about low skilled and high skilled jobs, but nobody touches the middle skilled jobs. Starting in the 1950s, nobody had the patience to do an apprenticeship anymore. It was all instant gratification or go to college and graduate school.
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  246.  @fsaldan1  Not surprised. I meet a retired physics professor several years ago who told me that most students going into college didn’t have the basic skills to succeed, but were allowed through to meet certain quotas.
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  247.  @cramsa  What you say is true, but I think a lot of people confused industrial skilled trades for construction skilled trades. The demand for machinists is declining, but when it comes to construction trades; that all depends on you local region.
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  248.  @carlthor91  The Great Depression of the 1930s was caused by high finance creating a loan panic and crashing the markets. Prior to WW2, America had no need for any manufactured product coming from overseas. We were self-sufficient in every aspect with a highly competent work force. The only things that needs to import are natural resources (cobalt, lithium, silicon, tantalum etc.). Any global supply chain disruption and you’re left with nothing.
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  249.  @marcfleury4795  I doubt it. Civilian firearms in America will still be the norm for many generations to come. Especially now, with our nation becoming more fractured and chaotic; more folks are buying more firearms.
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  250. That’s what happens when you replace engineers with bean counters.
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  251. @ What are you talking about? Since when is a profit margin of 50,000% expected to be reasonable? A profit margin of 1-20% is the standard across all sectors.
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  252. Not necessarily true. That all depends on what car brand you’re buying. German and Japanese cars are in short supply because their parts are imported abroad. GM and Ford do not have such crazy wait lists because they’re local (North American) manufacturers. I bought a Chevy Malibu back in 2021 with no wait line. Every other dealership I went to had a 4 months to 2 years wait list.
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  253. Most Americans used public transit or walked back in the 1930s and 40s. It was suburban sprawl in the 1950s that made automobile demand very high.
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  254.  @StylizedKitsune  Good on you. I use my plumbing license to work self-employed; looking for various work opportunities while also working 45 hours per week. There’s nothing wrong with “entrepreneurship”, but what many folks don’t realize is the significant decline of American society. The America that our parents were born into is no longer the one we’re living in right now.
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  255. I can relate to your story too. The dealership wanted to charge me $100 for an engine air filter change. I simply refused and did the work myself for only $30.
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  256. Not if you’re in the union!
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  257.  @CuriousCrow-mp4cx  That is an excellent comment!!
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  258.  @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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  259.  @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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  260.  @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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  261.  @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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  262.  @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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  263.  @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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  264. Depends on what field of study you go into. In some fields, the employer is forced to pay higher wages because of how critical or dangerous the work is.
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  265. Thank you for sharing his story. This is what happens to people who do not have community, family, or close social connections to fall back on. Any economic downturn, and you’re left in financial poverty. God bless that man!
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  266. Nazi UFOs - Hitler Secret Weapon by Ernst Zundel
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  267.  @blackbacon08  The issue you’re addressing now has nothing to do with urban sprawl/planning. If you really wanted infill development done at an incremental pace; you’d support tighter immigration policies and bringing on more financial/education incentives for blue collar trade work. Even if we were to infill all the parking lots; with our rate of immigration (both illegal and legal); we’re going to still end up bulldozing Californian farmlands and native habitats anyways.
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  268.  @blackbacon08  Keep on coping, buddy. You can’t have it both ways; as environmental stewardship and good urban planning all tie into our immigration policies.
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  269.  @blackbacon08  Who said I hate foreigners? You’re just putting words in my mouth.
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  270. One or two women who do not have any children is obviously no big problem. Give it another decade and when our infrastructure system begins to fall apart from sever labor shortages due to dumbing down and almost nobody raising the next generation; you’ll begin to really feel the pain of having NO clean drinking water, no working sewage systems, roads falling apart, nobody to maintain transit and nothing beautiful being built. If you want to enjoy all the comforts and luxuries of modern life, then you (as a woman) need to make babies, then raise them to become healthy and well educated adults. All else is pointless excuses.
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  271. 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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  272.  @uhhhum  Don’t be afraid of getting your first job. You gain tremendous experience from your first job; even if you only stay a few months there. That’s what I did after finishing my associate degree of applied in electromechanical engineering technology at a technical-community college. My first job was a maintenance technician (did not enjoy doing it at all) but I persisted for five months before quitting. My second job was welding engineer helping customers service automation/robotic welding equipment. After two years at that job, I transferred into controls before starting a low voltage electrical apprenticeship. You gotta know how to live life, improvise day to day and understand it’s better to work incrementally than taking big steps into the dark.
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  273.  @catiapb1  I love how so many people confuse “service sector jobs” with “industrial jobs.” Those two are not the same in any manner. Once you get x amount of labor in health care, you don’t need anymore labor. Unlike an industrial economy (which is all gone these days in most of the West), you absorb a vast amount of labor into well paid skilled work.
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  274.  @uhhhum  You can waste a lot of time looking in the wrong places. I suggest you take some personality tests, career match making exams, and see what kind of work environment suits your “spiritual interests” the most. If money is the end all purpose of your career; you’re going to be miserable in your later life because your soul is not getting satisfied. Chase after what you are most passionate about( have great interest in) and then the money will follow suit.
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  275.  @uhhhum  No worries. You’re welcome.
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  276. That’s good to hear, because this conventional war in Ukraine is terrible for everyone and a waste of lives.
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  277. Since you’re doing well, keep it up! Don’t do anything massive (gambles), but rather, take incremental steps and work locally.
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  278. Good points you make, but why would urban planners and local governments change their bad habits, when the Feds continue to reward financial loans/grants to local governments to continue their bad behaviour? Psychologists call that phenomena “Cognitive Dissonance”.
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  279.  @ianhomerpura8937  No, urban planners are also part of the problem. It is not just building density, it is about understanding people and where they struggle. Strong Towns has a better approach of incremental development.
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  280. Wallenstein introduced the modern concept of logistics? Various armies in ancient times had a mix of logistics, marauding, and foraging. The ancient Chinese armies used a mix of logistics (Ox carts) to re-supply their troops at the frontlines, used foraging methods, and also used marauding too.
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  281. Elon Musk is in the same as Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. None of these billionaires created their own wealthy organically. They all had millionaire parents who gave them money and connections to start off with. Jeff Bezos is more of a businessman than a software engineer. Bill Gates is more of a banker (like his father) than a software developer, and Elon Musk is more of a media personality than an innovator.
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  282. @ Haha, funny of you to make that comment. Car dependent suburbia came onto the urban planning drawing board when Franklin Roosevelt became president of America. Despite being a lover of Stalin and communism, he insisted that car dependent suburbs should be imposed on all of America.
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  283. You’d be surprised by how his life story is able to relate to so many other ordinary people.
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  284. Wow, that is amazing and shocking at the same time! I never knew such a place had existed before!
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  285. We prioritize new construction over maintenance. We need to return back to an incremental approach to how we build things. Check out strong towns.
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  286.  @inmydelorean6025  America has never been a free market capitalist economy since the end of WW2. The federal government dictates economic policies, allow for corporate monopolies, and enforce absurd regulations. That’s also how the EU runs as well. Only difference is that the EU has over regulated labor, and overtaxed capital. While America has severely under paid their labor and highly favoured capital. I also disagree with how you apply the standard “free economy wages” to every aspect of American life. That doesn’t apply to me. I’m a union plumber that’s well paid, has plenty of benefits/insurance, three week vacations, and I can earn a lot more money working overtime if I want to. If there is a shop I don’t like; I can easily transfer over to a third union shop.
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  287. I’m surprised (not really) that Ford bought a Porsche designed engine for their passenger cars! I know for a fact that the 1.4L EcoTech engine in my Chevy Equinox is designed by Opel.
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  288. I've always wondered how public housing in the USA went from three story rowhouses, triplexes and mixed use residential-commercial buildings in a streetcar suburb grid in the 1930s. To these ugly and horrendously designed concrete monstrosities clustered in the middle of nowhere with no access to jobs, small businesses and public transit.
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  289.  @resetsetmefree478  Chuck Marohn of Strong Towns describes this suburban decline as a financial and population retreat. Our cities and towns will greatly shrink in size over the next few decades because we cannot afford maintain every cul-de-sac, parking lot, strip malls, and cheap mansions we've built. You'll have entire neighborhoods get abandoned, scrapped/looted or simply burnt to the ground. Many people will organize their own close-knit communities, completely ignoring the strict zoning codes (that make local development impossible). You already see this in Detroit. Downtown Detroit has become a boom center for wealthy folks, while certain Detroit neighborhoods are being re-occupied and re-organized by the working poor. Large cities such as New York will continue to struggle/stagnate, because of the 125 year old urban infrastructure neglect that has created a situation where the city requires constant federal assistance. I get the impression that the older generations threw a big party they could not afford. Then they left the party bills for us younger people who were never invited.
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  290.  @resetsetmefree478  Thank you for the compliments! I get the same feeling as well. All the restrictions, regulations, ridiculous rules and financial authority being so concentrated in dumb individuals; make it impossible for us to do anything these days!
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  291.  @jj7546  Keep on drinking the Kool-Aid.
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  292. Nikola Tesla invented the fluorescent light in the 1890s. Like so many of his inventions; there was an industry lag and things weren't adopted or recognized until decades later.
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  293.  @manstonhisk667  Yes, indeed. All in the name of greater profit margins by the bean counters, at everyone else expense.
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  294. There is no such thing as quiet quitting... Only high inflation, rising taxes, feminism, the intentional dumbing down of the youth, and fast food minimum wage jobs paying the same salary as that of dangerous, physically demanding skilled work (such as carpentry and welding) that are making more people "re-consider." The thing that annoys me are the fact that these women in HR or middle management positions create the most ridiculous expectations (i.e.: entry level jobs require ten years work experience or fields with severe labor shortages are asking for highly experienced professionals with poor pay); then complain about how young men or millennials are clowns who cannot do anything. What a joke! I know of computer engineers who are surprised to see job postings by HR that require minimum 5 years experience on software systems that have only been out for 2 years... Go figure.
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  295. 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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  296.  @MadLadsAnonymous  You also have to take into account the initial financial costs and long term cost of maintenance. If we (Americans) can't even find the money to properly maintain freeways built in the 1960s; then what makes you think we'll maintain these newer structures with reinforced fiberglass instead of steel rebar?
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  297.  @DigitalBenny  America has a track record for doing improper maintenance, regardless of what engineering or materials we employ. Just look at our freeway system and you'll understand.
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  298. 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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  299. Despite the US selling oil and other raw material to Japan in the 1930s, the Japanese still had a terrible time in China due to logistics. Japan merchant marine fleet was small in terms of tonnage, and greatly over worked to the breaking point while waging the second Sino-Japanese war. Japan entry into the pacific only destroyed their merchant marine fleet. Aside from China greatly lagging behind in science, technology and industry. China had no modern infrastructure beyond Shanghai and TianJin. So the more the Japanese went inland, the more they realized just how awful it would be re-supply its own troops.
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  300.  @markgarland9000  For large buildings such as the Chrysler and Empire State buildings; those types of buildings utilized mechanical pneumatics (later on electro-pneumatic by the 1950s) to control and bring heated or cooled air into a given space. I’ve worked on old school buildings (and other various institutions) built back in the 1920s and 50s. Old schools from the 1920s only have manually controlled radiators for heating. While schools built in the 50s had dedicated mechanical rooms using air compressors to control temperature/humidity for the classrooms. I was stunned by the complicated pneumatic thermostats, quarter inch copper piping, and pneumatic actuators (control valves) that were designed, built and installed! It’s amazing how we lost so much old wisdom in recent decades!
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  301.  @Andre-qo5ek  I wouldn’t bother too much with federal elections. The feds (in general) have lost all credibility and accountability. We need to work locally and incrementally from now on.
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  302. I just finished watching all three parts of this documentary series. Kind of crazy how delusional some of these Chinese migrants are. I think they're better off staying in China than coming into the USA. America is not what it used to be and entire parts of the USA are collapsing or economic dead zones.
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  303. You forgot to mention that Zimbabwe has become a de-facto colony of China. In exchange for food and fuel, Zimbabwe has handed over its entire mineral wealth to China.
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  304. Carpenters will work in construction 10-20 years before moving up to managerial positions (i.e.: foreman or home inspector) or doing something else related to carpentry that is less physically demanding as they age.
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  305. Office workers who push paperwork around all day at desk also develop serious health problems too. You won’t find heart disease and high blood pressure among construction workers, but you do among many office workers.
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  306. If you’re a business owner, big investor, remote professional or come from a rich family; then yes, you can “pack up and travel the globe.” For most Americans, we tend to travel intra-nationally instead of internationally. You’ll see many young Americans hop around from one state to another before settling down. I’m nearing my 30s and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. I left the New England states a few years after community college because of bad economy up in the North East. Now, I’m living in the central US, where economy is better going.
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  307. Well said!! I meet some folks who get all grumpy when they have to tip for a service at the barber, restaurant, or food delivery. Some just don’t realize that these services are impossible without proper finances.
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  308. Just curious, what did you study in your blue collar vocation? Maybe you could try self-employment?
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  309. There won’t be a housing crash because the U.S Dollar continues to drop in value. The increase in housing costs is not because homes are “getting expensive”, but because the dollar is declining.
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  310. Wow, that is interesting info. Thanks for sharing!
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  311. The same thing happened to my Chevy Equinox. I went for oil changes every 7k miles and started noticing excessive engine kicking noises. Changed the oil immediately and started changing the oil every 2k miles from then on. Never had that knocking issue since.
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  312. @ Your comment is so stupid and laughable. Go be an astroturfer somewhere else.
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  313. Thank you so much for the advice!! I got myself some Irwin bolt removers and it worked on my car!! Came out smooth as butter after I wasted an hour trying every other tool I had!
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  314.  @PeriscopeFilm  Yes, I know that, thanks for mentioning. I’ve spent a decent amount of time studying Chinese history and realistically speaking, America (from a certain point of view) “let the Communists win.”
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  315.  @TheLastAngryMan01  You're correct about that. These days, its everyone for themselves and to hell with everyone else type of mentality. The only problem I have is that more Americans should demonstrate the fact that they demand for their military personnel to return home. USA spends tens of billions of dollars each year to keep several army bases across Germany.
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  316. Yes and no. It is really GM and Ford that made SUVs popular in recent years. Other car makers such as Mercedes and Toyota simply jumped on board because of how profitable it is to sell bigger cars that are less practical.
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  317. Are you serious?? Back when I was a teenager, my high school friends and I managed to run a Tim Hortons very smoothly without any problems. I bet you that manager does not want to pay the $15/hour minimum wage and would rather pay international students $10/hour wages.
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  318.  @angelarich8455  To be fair, there are problems and weakness with each generation. I’m so over Gen Z and Boomers blaming each other for this or that. Why not help one another out? It’s going to get worse…
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  319. @ You forgot to take into account that one American dollar in 1960 is the equivalent to 25 American dollars in today currency (adjusted for inflation). So regardless of what profession you work in, we’re all getting robbed.
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  320. Well done, as always!
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  321. Given the supply chain problems in Canada/USA, I doubt many people will buy such a vehicle. Volkswagen, Toyota, Honda, Audi, Hyundai and Mercedes are well established car brands in North America. So they’ll keep their loyal customers. However, the need for spare parts will be troublesome for foreign competitors.
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  322. China is great at copying and imitating technical ideas/patents. However, China is terrible when it comes to research and development. So the Chinese rely on American research to “stay ahead.”
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  323.  @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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  324. The German infantry had their own military food rations and the German Army itself had many Opel Trucks to use for hauling supplies to the front lines. The problem was not the ineffective use of modern logistics by the German army. But rather, treachery and betrayal of most German generals/commanders who actively sabotaged Hitler military plans during WW2. In France, German units were deliberately under supplied, under manned and poorly lead by treasonous generals. The US Army in France 1944, were constantly capturing German supply dumps and German supply trucks that were never used. And in battles like Carentan and Caen, German troops (despite being low on ammo), were constantly finding half of their munition crates filled with women tampons instead of ammunition. I know, it is shocking! Source: Hitler Revolution - Richard Tedor
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  325. The more complicated and the more high level engineering involved; the greater the expenses for long term maintenance. If you live in America and you drive a car around; you can easily see the complete lack of endurance these modernist structures have.
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  326.  @stephbarbershop2518  Hard skills such as welding, carpentry, plumbing, auto mechanics etc. will always give you an advantage over low skilled salespeople, HR drones and burger flippers.
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  327. The USA fought WW2 as an endurance campaign. Japan fought WW2 like it was a short term match like the Russo-Japanese War.
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  328. In that case, for schools in poor areas with children from poor families. We ought to be encouraging the youngsters to go for apprenticeships and certificate programs at community colleges.
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  329. 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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  330.  @sanjaykumarsingh1970  Canada has the highest educated taxi drivers in the world. Many recently arrived immigrants who were medical specialists, doctors, nurses etc. back in their home countries, end up working as taxi drivers in Canada because their skills and experience cannot be transferred over.
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  331.  @dankburgers  Thanks of that info. Do you have any sources? Same thing can be said with everything else. Hardly any public transit is being built, so everyone is resorting to driving private cars which creates more traffic congestion on highways.
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  332.  @eisenkrieg553  Go to community college first and earn a pre-apprentice trade certificate. Then start applying to various contractors/companies. In recent years, many young dudes have ruined the entrance requirements into the skilled trades. Small shops cannot stand taking on new apprentices (with prior no experience) for work, only for these dudes to flake out in a few months.
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  333. 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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  334. Awesome video! I’ll check out B.A.T.F!!
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  335. Revelation 17:17
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  336. Not Just Bikes directed me here! Great video! I love how he mentions the confusion between urban and rural among most Americans. There is nothing rural about an asphalt roadway with a stop sign; that is classified as urban!
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  337. Used Japanese cars tend to be the best choice for many people because of their high quality build and reasonable price. I’ve never been recommended for a used American car because those vehicles are designed to only last 5 years before complete break down.
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  338. There is a good movie made about autonomous weapons already. It’s a 2016 movie called “Kill Command.”
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  339. The elegance, manners, dignity, basic intelligence etc. presented in this film makes our current society an absolute sham and disgrace. Sad how far we’ve fallen as a society.
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  340. Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
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  341. Thank you very much for this video! You saved me big $$$ having to get the oil pan replaced and I now also know what tools to use to get rounded bolts off!! I used Irwin bolt removers (special sockets) and it did the job great!
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  342. Modernist architects are two faced liars. They design and demand ugliness as “beauty.” Then force their ugly works onto the general public which nobody even likes. If you really understand the background story behind modernist architecture. They deliberately throw up concrete towers, monstrous glass walls, and cement all over to purposely make the area as uninviting and unpleasant for anyone who doesn’t work or live in the area.
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  343.  @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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  344.  @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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  345. Wow, thank you for sharing your story!
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  346.  @PAIP_Studio  It’s not about labor wages, but labor content. And also, you’re overestimating robotics. When it comes to American manufacturing, 85% of the problems are caused by management.
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  347. Stop blaming blue collar workers for the decline of manufacturing. The issue lies with bad management causing the decline of American manufacturing. You should study Dr. Deming principles (father of quality).
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  348. @ Dr. Deming taught the Japanese how to mass produce in both quality and quantity. Lean manufacturing is an off shoot from Dr. Deming principles as it was a Japanese manufacturing engineer who studied Dr. Deming principles and then got more creative with the manufacturing process. As for college course work today, they don’t mention Dr. Deming at all.
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  349. @ When America opened relations with China in 1972; the Chinese goods that flooded into American markets were cheap but low quality. Countries like Germany that manufactured high quality cars only employed highly skilled workers. As for automation and robotics, you’re over estimating the capacity of what a robot can do. Some things are best suited for robotics and other things are best suited for a skilled worker. It’s a 50/50 balance. You can’t go all the way (100%) with automating an entire factory floor.
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  350. Seems to me you experienced cognitive dissonance on your visit to Australia and seeing all the homeless people out in the streets; while at the same time experiencing racism from locals. That fact that you make such a judgement shows to me that your ancestors would’ve done the same if the roles were reversed.
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  351. Let’s not forget that home prices back then we’re an average of $15k. Now it’s climbing to $500k thanks to the dollar losing value.
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  352. I love how all these parents and young people are now considering “apprenticeships” instead of 4 year and graduate degrees… I work as a journeyman construction electrician and it seems to me that most people don’t know what working in a skilled trade is really about. You don’t just show up and have someone else do this or that for you. Working in the skilled trade takes a lot of discipline, you have to attend night school after x amount of work experience, work on a job site is fast paced and you need to know how to balance theoretical skills with hands on ability. I’ve seen many first year apprentices get fired because they don’t have the physical stamina to keep up or they’ve never used a screwdriver before and aren’t willing to learn anything that is challenging.
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  353.  @HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle  I don’t blame you. Our economy stinks right now. It’s only going to get worse from here on.
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  354. We got rid of manufacturing in the 1980s for cheap imports. The tool makers and machinists in the 80s who lost their jobs to cheap imports; were forced into dishing out fries at a McDonalds to earn a living. Sad, but true. 6 years is enough to learn the basics, but you still need many more years experience as a journeyman to actually accomplish greater tasks.
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  355. Hitler was sabotaged and betrayed by the German aristocracy during WW2. The Soviet Union, even with American military support, was totally dysfunctional and could not fight Germany. Source: Richard Tedor - Hitler Revolution
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  356. Sherman Anti-Trust Act. But hey, who needs that when you can bribe politicians and send multimillion dollar lobbyist teams…
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  357. When a random dude with a small YT channel makes better recommendations to improving LA transit than people with expensive graduate degrees can think up. It is quite telling of what kind of a society we’ve become…
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  358.  @artysanmobile  "Strong Towns" is a non-profit organization founded by a former civil engineer named Chuck Marohn. He founded "Strong Towns" because he became increasingly concerned over financial insolvency of car dependent suburbia that is pushed and promoted by the Traffic Engineering profession and the Feds. Our dependency on sprawling auto-oriented suburbs is bankrupting every American because we cannot afford to pay for all the excess parking lots, strip malls, street-road hybrids etc. When you sprawl everything out over vast miles of land; you decrease the tax base and increase the amount of liabilities you are obligated to service. Every American city/county is going to be Detroit in the coming decades.
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  359.  @StevenHughes-hr5hp  Political parties do not represent ordinary people and how ordinary people do things. Especially true in America.
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  360.  @NeostormXLMAX  Regardless, extreme individualism and extreme liberalism are moral rots here in America.
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  361. My parents wanted me to go study “mathematics” at graduate school. My respond was, “who is going to pay? Where are the resources you promised to provide me with? Where was the initial support over the years? Did I get to go to private school and have a dozen private tutors? No.” Instead, I went to community college and got an associate degree in electromechanical engineering technology. Now employed as a welding engineer, full time, no student loan debts and earning $95k/year. Some parents don’t realize/understand that the wealthy can afford many luxuries for their children education that the average Joe cannot. “But the government will support you!!” Yeah, those days are over. We’re not living in 1945 America anymore.
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  362.  @Dukejrrr  That’s an awesome story! Thanks for sharing! Too many people don’t know or cannot see such opportunities at a car dealership or a small shop trade business.
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  363. 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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  364. Coconut oil and avocado oil are very healthy oils with healthy fats in them. Your brain and other organs require healthy fats and oils in order to function properly. If people weren’t eating coconuts or avocados, you’d have to eat beef tallow, sheep fat, lard, olive oil or butter to maintain a healthy ratio of fats/oils in your brain etc.
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  365. From a tactical point of view, Ukraine “performed good” with massive military support from America. However, from a strategic point of view, Ukraine has totally lost. Ukraine went into this conflict weak and without more EU/US support; Ukraine will only get more weak.
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  366. Why are there illegal Chinese migrants entering the USA? China is not an active war zone, the country is stable, and hundreds of millions have been lifted out of poverty. I speculate that these are all older individuals with no valuable skillsets or post-secondary education; coming to America to take advantage of the generous social welfare systems.
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  367. China is in the same situation as the USA. Too many young people going for fewer and fewer white collar jobs. What China is now lacking is “middle skill sets” that America is also lacking too. Seems to me that every nation is following the “American blueprint” of “progress”.
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  368. I too, was once fooled into believing that Russia/USSR is a military super power, but after doing basic research into economies of scale, demographics, modern infrastructure and industrial capacity. I realized that Russia is nowhere near capable of supporting such a sprawling military.
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  369. The biggest issue with America is car dependent suburban sprawl that makes rail transit challenging to operate. Before WW2, America had reliable railway transit for passengers all over the country. Things will not change until many freeways and car oriented suburbs are abandoned or federal financial funding stops.
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  370.  @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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  371. @ That’s a false assumption. They’ll then try to bring in more international students who can pay 100x the amount of local students.
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  372. I would love to see an update on this topic of the American economy in 2023 or 2022. Fascinating stuff!
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  373. Well explained. Electricity is basically a mix of electron flow and magnetism that energizes the conductors.
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  374. The manufacturer does not care about vehicle longevity anymore. They just want to sell you a new car every 3 years for greater profits.
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  375.  @eugenetswong  My company has done commercial renovation work in Toronto, Canada for high rise buildings. Every skyscraper renovation site (that I've been to) is a mess, because of god-awful labor shortages. Deadlines are constantly getting pushed further and further back because instead of a team of engineers working on HVAC-BAS design, it's one engineer doing all the calculations by himself. Same with BAS technicians! You need a team of 15 BAS technicians for a 70 story skyscraper renovation, and not one tech running up and down the building doing everything by himself! And that goes on constantly on a daily basis!
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  376. Your world shall die out to make way for our world.
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  377.  @MrMarinus18  It's really not that complicated... If you understood basic American history, we fought a civil war in order to enforce high tariffs of imported manufactured goods. From 1865 to 1900, American industries boomed and prospered despite such highly enforced tariffs. And after WW2, our industries still brought us tremendous economic wealth.
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  378. 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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  379.  @damaramu.  The mentality of “Everyone to College” has over saturated many white collar jobs, but that’s just one of many problems.
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  380. Community Colleges are also much cheaper than state/private colleges. I paid off my $15k student loan debt in a few months after finishing a technical program from community college. Think outside the box when it comes to education.
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  381. @ I’m not a big fan of sending your resume in online. If you don’t format your resume properly or the font size of your words are too big; they AI will assume the resume is blank and will just toss it out before your resume even reaches someone hiring desk. If your able to, it’s better to drop off your resume in person during business hours. A positive social interaction can go a long way for you.
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  382.  @b_uppy  I’ve read the other comments. This more than just “local/state politics.” After ww2, our public policies pushed wealthy folks into the countryside and poor people into city centres. That was horrible public policy for many reasons and it was a national disaster. As our social support systems further fall apart, we see the traditional development pattern come back again. Rich people in city centres and poor people out in the countryside or crumbling suburbs.
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  383.  @b_uppy  The intent was not and never has been, poorly realized. It was all by design. It’s why in the 50s and 60s, you saw the term “experimental” being used for every freeway and suburban mass construction. All that was an experiment that failed on a massive proportion. Unlike 19th century America where a poor person could grow their own food in the countryside; most of our poor are trapped in crumbling suburbs that are a financial burden on everyone.
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  384. @ Point of the matter is, the suburban experiment was a failure but we still continued with the experiment even after it was proven to be a disaster. In the 1950s, we built suburbia using our savings and investments. When there wasn’t enough financial productivity to justify car dependent suburban sprawl in the 1970s. We started borrowing billions to pay for such a development pattern. The economic turndown of the 1970s was caused by local governments not being able to pay the maintenance bills for suburbia. So, starting in the 1980s, we started borrowing loans and not saving anymore to pay for such a lifestyle. That all ended in 2008 with the financial crash. Now it’s ordinary folks fending for themselves and big corporations/banks buying up properties in urban, suburban and rural places.
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  385. Amazing! The 1980s of Japan looked beautiful!!
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  386. Here are the real problems: 1) Stagnant zoning codes. 2) More people benefit from high costs than do the poor or renters. Banks, insurance companies, developers, contractors, local government etc. all benefit from high housing costs. 3) Declining skilled trades and engineering labor make new construction harder. There is a big difference between minimum wage installer and skilled trades people who are required to have critical thinking skills. Engineering shortage is another issue, as you need HVAC engineers to design such complicated HVAC systems for high rise condos. 4) Mortgaging is now done by national banks, rather than local banks. This does not give the option of taking out a loan for a starter home (I.e.: cottage home) like the 1920s.
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  387. Revelation 17:17
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  388. I think another big problem is the fact that so many people are looking for the same basic jobs, that it adds more pressure than needed. Instead of “looking for a job”, you should “look for opportunities” as a self-employed professional or businessman. Sounds ridiculous? Andrew Carniege knew nothing about building bridges. He simply organized the labor that was needed for building bridges and bidding on contracts to get bridges built!
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  389. I lived in Ottawa for several years in the Westboro neighbourhood. My father worked as a consultant during our time there. I did a lot of skating in the winter. It’s amazing to see how very little has changed along the Rideau Canal.
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  390. Your degenerate world will die out to make way for our NS world.
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  391. Fantastic as always! Thank you so much for this awesome video! You guys are the best! I'm really amazed how despite living in a car centric nation; almost nobody is taught anything about proper maintenance of their car! Your guest speaker also hit some really interesting talking points that I never even knew. Such as: Porsche designing their cars for high speed travels (not local cruising), engine oil changes recommended by manufacturers are not for longevity, oil clocks vs smart algorithms measuring engine oil (GM), and how our petroleum fuels/detergents for engines have changed over time. Really goes to show how "brand loyalty" is not the best option these days. You really have to do your own "homework"!
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  392.  @fredflintlocks9445  Boeing is now run by clowns and most of our aircraft are being built by under qualified idiots thanks to diversity quotas and affirmative action. America going woke is more reason automation will rapidly accelerate the replacement of humans in military combat.
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  393.  @kordellswoffer1520  Haha, as if you know so much more, Lol. Just look at the recent recruitment crisis during the Israel-Hamas war. Go figure.
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  394.  @kordellswoffer1520  You're no longer talking about the U.S Military. You're now discussing a mercenary force, Lol.
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  395. I think you notice the ornate details because you have trained your mind to see more things. Most Americans are dumbed down beyond belief, thanks to our public educational system.
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  396. High housing prices tend to benefit many in key positions of the economy. For starters, governments get more property tax revenue with high housing prices, insurance companies earn more money, developers earn more profit, real estate agents earn larger commissions, and you can be a terrible contractor in a high housing market because of so much speculation. The only people this does not benefit are the poor, renters and the younger generations coming up.
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  397.  @marcusantoninus1838  Modernist architects represent the decline of technical-creative skillsets all over the West.
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  398.  @theplasmacollider6431  Most degrees are meaningless. Even many STEM degrees such as molecular biology are over saturated or lacking the practical learning aspect.
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  399.  @LauraAnn309  Thank you and good for you!
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  400. Housing in big cities are really, really expensive. Same can be said with rent as well. Rent is crazy high in Toronto and Vancouver. The only places that have cheap housing in Canada are in small towns with less than 100k people. Only issue is that there are no jobs in these places, so its tough choices for everyone.
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  401. Government backed mortgage bonds. The higher the home prices, the more money is earned by banks, government, insurance companies, developers etc.
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  402. Two sides of the same coin. Now ask yourself this question, if America is so anti-communist, why did America save the USSR in 1941? History is uglier than you’d imagine…
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  403. @ It’s going to take several decades to re-build all the city mass transit that we’ve demolished. So for now, most folks are stuck to using cars.
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  404.  @RjbigIamMe  It used to be that a young person would work hard, go through tough schooling, endure hardship etc. in the name of family or community or for the future of the republic. All that has gone down the toilet and its no surprise that America has gone down the toilet too. Give incentives if you want to improve the economy, social standing etc.
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  405.  @PeriscopeFilm  Will do! :D
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  406. @churroman29  Thrifting and knowing how to repair your own stuff is good, but that still does not address the underlying problem of how most Americans live. Car dependent suburbia is dominated by corporate monopolies where very few mom and pop stores exist. Even getting tools to repair things these days is super expensive thanks to inflation.
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  407. It’s stupidity for parents to tell their child to take on debt to pay for an undergraduate degree in an over saturated white collar labor pool. Blue collar trades is the grey zone. Some are great fields but others are absolutely terrible. In the end, as our societies further decline/deteriorate, we’re left to fend for ourselves.
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  408.  @Support_Systemic  That really depends on the school and program you’re going into. You really have to do your research and understand what are your strengths/weaknesses. Some degree programs such as archeology can be very rewarding (if you know where to look for work). As for engineering, that too also depends. A generic mechanical engineering degree from a four year college won’t get you anywhere unless you had industry sponsored cooperative education and/or you’re willing to also do a 1 year certificate program in mechanics at community college.
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  409. Great content in this video. I support the proposals you make. However, these projects are slow to start and often get grinder down in maintenance/design issues because of the lack of HVAC control specialists. Skilled trade shortage aside, every American city is lacking design engineers that are so badly needed to implement HVAC controls.
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  410. Not surprised by how bad reinforces concrete is from an artistic and technical point of view. Most freeways in the USA were built in the 1950s/60s using reinforced concrete. Many have been torn down and many more are costing billions of dollars in borrowed (not taxpayer!) money just to maintain because of how little endurance these structures have.
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  411. Brain drain is a waste of talent. Canada has the most highly educated taxi drivers in the world, because Canada takes away what little medical professionals the third world countries have. Educational standards are also not the same. Likewise, a doctor from Egypt went through a sub-standard medical education and cannot be a doctor straight away in Germany, where medical standards are higher. All you’re doing is depriving other countries of their professionals and not giving locals the opportunity to pursue a career they desire in their homeland! Another good example of the failures of globalization is the USA. America did not build up its techno-industrial wealth from importing cheap stuff. The American Empire imposed high tariffs and high taxes to punish behaviour that did not serve the interests of the USA. This created local innovation and economic growth that drove the U.S into a powerful nation. The end of WW2 is where all the problems started for America and every other country.
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  412.  @prof_rob_k  Best of luck!
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  413. Wow, that is very fascinating info right there! Thanks again! Seems to me that not only is everything not “built to last” anymore, but the overall technical-creative skill sets in this country has been in constant decline!
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  414. You forgot to mention that every tank the Russian military has been using are Christie suspensions from America.
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  415. Desperate times create desperate people.
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  416. Scott, thank you so much for sharing your life story and your work experiences as a carpenter, construction worker, and doing other crafts as a career! It is fascinating to hear the tremendous wisdom of older folks! God bless you! I myself am working as an electrician right now, but I have an associate degree in electromechanical engineering technology from community college. It’s good work, but everyday is challenging. I thank you for encouraging the hard and challenging things in your 20s. As most people around my age don’t know what real work really means. Sometimes, I too feel lost and confused by what is going on, and hearing the grace of good folks out there helps to life my spirit.
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  417.  @naeangold  Prevailing wages, prevailing results. Simple as that. The Chinese are only able to undercut us in price, but not quality or improved design.
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  418. Your world shall die out to make way for our world!
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  419. German prophet Alois Irimaier did predict that the Chinese would invade America with conventional military forces, but they’d get beaten back after fighting on the continental USA. Very interesting stuff going on around us right now…
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  420. Seeing all these videos of drunk teenagers getting arrested really goes to show that this is not a policing problem, more of a societal problem where community is really lacking for these youngsters and the only way they’re able to cope with such social isolation to go out to bars/clubs to party like animals.
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  421.  @dsmbilly3690  High skilled and low skilled jobs are over saturated right now. It’s the “middle skilled” jobs that are in high demand with good pay and benefits. Professionals working in IT/software have to compete against AI, hundreds of millions of other computer employees around the globe, and certifications. To me, it just looks like “race to the bottom.” Meanwhile, you’ve got elevator/escalator technicians who earn $100k with lots of benefits and overtime work thanks to their local union.
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  422.  @thaneros  Yes, but New Orleans is economically poor right now and there aren’t many jobs there either. California is a whole other fiasco thanks to their policies.
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  423.  @mcfloridaman2192  Gen Z is having a hard time because they’re a much smaller cohort compared to boomers and Gen X. As birth rates continue to decline, and many more people “tune out of society.” Once important institutions (such as churches) will simply disappear.
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  424.  @thaneros  At the end of the day, folks gotta do their own research.
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  425. @ Exactly! Too many people blindly following this or that advice without stopping to think for themselves anymore.
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  426. Not with America declining technical excellence.
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  427. Disgusting how the USA is prioritizing other countries rather than helping out its own struggling citizens! This conflict is only a big money maker for military manufacturers and bankers on both sides.
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  428.  @rogerwilco5918  Yeah, we spend a lot of money on pork barrels (subsidies for wealthy lobbyists) and illegal aliens instead of helping out locals who are homeless, and unemployed/underemployed.
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  429.  @henrykimberley5320  Nothing here in America will be improved until the Federal Reserve Bank, lobbyists, corrupt politicians and big traffic engineering permanently goes away. Part of the reason why American cities cannot fund public education and health care is because of our suburban growth ponzi scheme and over built infrastructure liabilities coming due. Detroit is only a few decades ahead of everywhere else.
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  430. I agree with some of the points that you made, but you were wrong about some of the history of American manufacturing. America never produced “excellent products.” The products that we produced were regarded as “good enough” for purchase. After WW2, our manufacturing boomed because there was no need to create a highly effective system or white collar managerial staff. Everyone lined up for goods regardless of what methods American producers used. By the 1980s, when Japan started to beat the US. It was because Japan had adopted the Dr. Deming principles for manufacturing; while American manufacturing continued to get fat and bloated.
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  431. You can thank both political parties for destroying our passenger trains, streetcar networks, and small towns after WW2.
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  432. America oldest transit systems were all built up incrementally with local money. But after WW2, it has all been debt based speculation with continuous decline in quality and ridership. Only recently do we see a rejuvenation of city transit.
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  433. I accidentally stumbled across your video. At this point in time (in my opinion), you’re doing well compared to others. We’re only able to control our own lives and that’s about it. I know of many people who finished a four year college in STEM and cannot find any work due to how sluggish the economy is right now. And hey, if you realize that you want to do something else later on in life; community college is always open towards accepting you into their certificate programs!
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  434.  @susangoaway  Haha, as if you can change the lobbyists and private donors too.
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  435.  @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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  436.  @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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  437.  @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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  438.  @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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  439. ​ @cfroi08  Unfortunately for you, NS Germany had the right approach, but was militarily destroyed by the Western Allies.
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  440. Thank you for this video! I never knew how the engine oil was changed before this. I use the dealership garage to get my engine oil changed out, as my home does not have a garage or a drive way. And trying to change the engine oil on a public side street would be a nightmare task.
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  441. In Canada/USA, we've turned the automobile into a mandated prosthetic, instead of freedom on wheels. Literally, there are entire neighborhoods where you cannot walk two blocks down to a grocery store because there ain't no sidewalks; which forces you to drive all the time.
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  442. 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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  443. Thank you for sharing your experience as a Marine officer in Vietnam!
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  444.  @residentes8477  That is such a dumb comment. Why would you spend $70k to get a bachelor degree; only to find employment at Starbucks for minimum wage? Do realize that almost every able body young person is being told to go to a 4 year college. So at the end of the day, what is the point??? We now have in state, out of state and international students competing for the same degrees and the same jobs so what difference is it going to make, getting such a similar bachelor/masters degree??!
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  445. You’ve already forgotten the Canadian Freedom Truckers that inspired you Americans back in 2021?
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  446.  @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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  447. As a Canadian, I find it amazing how many of my fellow Canadians are fleeing to the USA (where cost of living is “cheaper”), but then I find these videos here on how bad the USA has become. It seems to me that no matter what Western nation you live in, it’s all going under really fast with inflation, rising taxes and rising social problems.
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  448. It’s very simple. Give out incentives for families, marriage and raising children. Other than that, I don’t care about the declining American Empire. The U.S secured its own decline after 1945.
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  449. I used to believe in “labor shortages” but now I don’t. If there were a labor shortage, we’d see higher wages, higher benefits, and improved vocational training. Instead, we see the opposite happen. Capital doesn’t want to pay decent wages, so they claim “labor shortage” to gas light the existing pool of labor.
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  450.  @Syndicate_01  Hahaha, I know, you have no argument against the Truth!
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  451. ​ @kiarawright5087  Okay boomer, never asked for you opinion. Doesn't mean you are a good example for the general public. Just don't expect high quality infrastructure, health care, nice cars, clean public transit etc. etc. when you've retired.
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  452. Both white collar and blue collar professions out there are in the grey zones. It all depends, but yeah, you should’ve figured some sort of self-employment or small shop sub-contracting work with your skill sets.
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  453. @GarrusVakarian-to2uh Haha, you may as well carve up California and New Jersey to India because there are many Indians living there, Lol.
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  454.  @American-Motors-Corporation  I too suspected that as well. Nothing made any sense. A well coordinated effort to monopolize and jack up car prices beyond inflation is what really happened. I mean, even the foreign car makers aren’t offering much for sedans and hatchbacks anymore. They too are going after the lucrative market of selling SUVs and luxury trucks. My old man wanted to get his 2005 pickup truck replaced with a new 2022 pickup line. He was willing to spend at least $40k for a new (practical) truck, but all he got were offers of $80k luxury pickup trucks that are totally useless on a construction site. In the end, he ended up do a massive overhaul and repair work at a local shop for his 2005 GMC truck for less than $15k. Money that’s much better spent than buying a new truck that you can’t even fix on your own!
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  455. For big cities and medium sized cities, yes that is true with what you say. But go out into a rural setting and find a small town. You’ll see that home prices there are much lower and more affordable. Cities will always be for the wealthy and rural places will always be for the poor.
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  456.  @shauncameron8390  I should've also added car dependency and high gasoline prices in those smaller places. There is no perfect place, but its up to the person.
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  457.  @BxIowaIrelandSwAg  Hey, its nice to see different styles of food places.
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  458.  @uhhhum  You’re very welcome! Our “mainstream” educational system (public schooling) was created for drilling soldiers to fight an early 19th century infantry war. It’s a highly controlled environment that does not reflect the realities of human life. Don’t get me wrong, you need to learn basic theory in a lecture classroom. But your “real education” begins after you get out of the lecture classroom and into real life.
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  459. Wrong. Hitler was betrayed from within by the aristocracy. The Soviet Union (even with American military aid) stood no chance against Hitler Germany. Source: Hitler Revolution - Richard Tedor
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  460.  @austinlaramee7811  Okay boomer, not everyone owns a mansion in Los Angeles, Lol.
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  461.  @Sythemn  Oh, but we have a unlimited budget for military adventures abroad and giving weapons to other countries to fight this or that war. Lol But when it comes to basic things such as public transit; we have no money. Lol
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  462. STEM degrees are in the grey zone now. It all depends on what kind of social connections you’re able to acquire in high school or university. If you study engineering, there is no guarantee of you finding stable employment without prior (related) work experience or connections to help you out in this economy.
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  463. Internships and Cooperative education are limited while also being highly competitive. One of my buddies studying commerce at university told me that there are only 300 internships and Co-op positions available, while there are 900 students competing for it. Literally, you’re competing with 2 other people for one internship position…
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  464. If you studied a four year or graduate school biology or chemistry degree, then yes, you’re screwed. There are only so many labs, chemical plants, industrial sites, and teaching positions that you can apply for. We no longer live in times of 1920s/50s economic booms.
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  465.  @ianhomerpura8937  For ordinary people without much money, it is all about returning back to the civilian ways of Victorian America.
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  466.  @reenakemp9132  Texas has zoning codes but they don't call it zoning codes, which is deceptive. Urban areas in Texas have the same development pattern as every other state (car dependent suburban sprawl).
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  467.  @ianhomerpura8937  Yes, there are many faults to your assumption. You and urban planners cannot fix the urban mess without correcting the regulations, code books, revising skilled labor etc. etc. Everyone benefits from this urban mess except poor people, which is why they'll be forced into areas less urban, with less infrastructure and have less basic life support.
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  468.  @reenakemp9132  They make it sound looser, but it really is not. In urban areas of Texas, they still have minimum parking, minimum lot sizes, minimum road sizes etc. And they keep building more freeways for cars; which in inefficient at moving lots of people around as quickly as possible.
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  469. From my studies of Chinese history, China had no leadership and no sense of direction before 1949. It was just Opium, warlords, corrupt Chinese Nationalist officials, foreign occupation, and carving up of international settlements. Mao and Chiang Kai-Shek are great military strategists/soldiers. But on the economic/financial/social level, Mao was a disaster following the Soviet model.
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  470.  @jacquelineperet6599  The world is a dangerous place.
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  471.  @jacquelineperet6599  What’s mind boggling is how much the West has given to the rest of the world. You’d be whining all day if your toaster, microwave, refrigerator, food processor, electric stove, air conditioning, electric/gas heater, ventilation fans etc. were all taken away from you, Lol.
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  472.  @quinnjohnson9750  Christian values? Women cannot put on the pants and pretend to be men while also hiding behind the dress when things get tough. There’s a reason why chivalry is dying out and both men and women are losing passion for each other. It’s all about de-population and total control by the planners of the nwo.
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  473. A lot of folks talk about the messed up U.S agricultural system we have in place today thanks to Ronald Reagan policies. Family farms were financially destroyed and replaced by big agricultural businessmen running corn and soybean plantations. Even many family owned ranches were replaced by disastrous factory style ranches owned by multinational corporations who couldn’t care less about public health.
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  474. 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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  475. Very beautiful!!! Well done!! I will someday try out the sponsors!
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  476. Happy birthday Scott! Thank you for sharing your wisdom! I’m working as an apprentice electrician right now and I really do appreciate you sharing your wisdom!
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  477. There is no gender pay gap. Occupations that pay more are those with many safety hazards, or require tremendous amounts of IN DEMAND education, over time work and scientific-technical (creative) work experience! If all these women want to earn more or the same as men, they’d be more miserable than they are now. You really think all these feminist women enjoy maintaining sewage systems? Or they all enjoy building electrical sub-stations? What about trash collection and trash disposal? These are all highly in demand, highly paid jobs that 99.9% of women won’t do! Women were created to do things that men cannot do, such as giving birth and raising the next generation of people!
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  478.  @paolamaria1992  Britain threw away its empire in the name of defeating evil Hitler or evil Germany.
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  479. What’s happened right now is exactly what the Satanic forces intended it to happen. If I wanted to destroy humanity and de-populate the planet of humans, I too would push for things that would cause men and women to lose their PASSION for each other (women admiring masculine traits and men admiring feminine traits). What we see going on today with economic sabotage, financial poverty, inflation, high taxes, feminism, porn, drugs, dumbing down etc. are why this planet is being de-populated.
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  480. 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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  481. Your community is a rare exception, but many wealthy pre-WW2 communities were demolished by Interstate Freeways. Those that were not decimated by Freeways, saw financial decline as living areas for people became more and more sprawled out. It's only in the last few years, that Americans are reversing this experimental suburban trend.
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  482. 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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  483.  @davidgates1122  We have a transportation monopoly here in the USA, so those companies can basically do whatever they want without having to worry too much about competition.
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  484. Strong Towns 40:1 ratio of private to public investments. It is not always about the initial up front cost, but rather, the financial productivity to maintain such multi-billion dollar investments.
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  485.  @NAUM_Projects  Strong Towns
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  486. Amazing old film! Thank you for sharing! Such as dam shame that our nation has fallen so far down in technical-creative abilities.
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  487. There are many astroturfers (trolls) that paid high $$$ to lie, slander and spread misinformation. For ordinary people (like myself), I’m also struggling as well with inflation.
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  488. Excellent video as always! You taught me more about the microelectronics industry than what I'm able to get anywhere else! And I'm not even an engineer or technician; I work as a plumber, Lol.
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  489. I’ve worked as a technical instructor for a technical community college in the New England states and I can also relate to what you mentioned. International students from China are either exceptional, or mediocre students who are trying to get by, or they’re from wealthy families and just here to party. Typically, the smarter, more motivated ones go on to state/private colleges for degrees in medicine or engineering. Those in community college are just trying to pass so they can transfer over state/private college programs or are there to not really learn anything but to waste time.
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  490.  @Auszie  The older generations basically threw a massive party that us younger folks were never invited to. Now we're the ones who have to foot the party bills left behind by them. In the 50s, 60s and 70s the average American threw away the country entire savings and investments for disposable consumerism. Then from the 1980s to 2008, they borrowed money to pay for a lifestyle that they couldn't afford.
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  491.  @zzzzzzz122zz1  “I bought my first home at age 22, right after I finished my four year college program in office administration. Then I managed to pay that $20k mortgage off in six years time and remained debt free for the rest of my life while only earning $5/hour. You kids just need to try harder.” Lol
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  492.  @先杰梁  Haha, if you think China is doing so terrible right now; you should see what’s happening to the West. Our “leaders” spend more time talking about gender or whatever nonsense than actually doing something productive.
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  493. I somewhat disagree with what you have to say. I’m a union plumber and not only do I get great benefits, but I also have the option of working over time for more money.
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  494. Haha, American built up its own manufacturing (techno-industrial) wealth with high tariffs, strong focus on education and vocational training. The wealth and jobs belong to Americans! America only needs to import natural resources (I.e.: minerals).
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  495.  @Bob5573able  Yes and no. That really depends… In America, you can become an engineer by education and/or experience. You also don’t need need a degree to work as an automotive mechanic; it’s just whatever work experience you can get. Your list sounds like a standard office job for commercial services. It’s not something I’d always recommend for a techno-industrial field.
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  496.  @Bob5573able  Thanks for your background story. I’m in my 30s and work as a plumber. My first employer that was willing to take me on as an apprentice, only did so because I had related work experience. I had my own basic plumbing tools, personal vehicle, and I worked as a “handyman” doing various outdoor jobs in my teenage years. So he knew he could count on me as a first year plumbing apprentice.
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  497.  @mrbanditos3583  Deregulation? Seems to me that you’ve never heard of the Dodge brothers and their story in creating a successful truck manufacturing business and helping Ford rise to the top. The Dodge brothers started as apprentice machinists, worked towards becoming master machinists being able to repair/build/maintain anything mechanical, before starting a successful automotive venture; engineering their own cars/trucks.
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  498.  @mrbanditos3583  In the present time line, the American empire is in rapid decline and decay. With such rot, we see all sorts of absurdities that we see in other rotting empires throughout history. Also, what we see today in “vocational training” is a strange anomaly in all of American and European history. At the end of the day, it’s up to the individual to figure out how they’re gonna pursue their career goals in life…
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  499. Trump and Biden are two sides of the same coin.
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  500. It was an American by the name of Dr. Deming who taught the Japanese how to mass produce in high quality and low cost!
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  501. Many older folks don’t realize that $100k/year today does not keep up with inflation. Going forward, I think there will be more people doing side hustles and/or creating their own business (as a craftsman) in order to “go with the flow” of high prices.
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  502. California is a disgusting state and not a place to be in for raising a family.
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  503. Americans in general, regardless of political leaning, have gotten dumbed down a lot. New York City, despite collecting billions of dollars in tax revenue; cannot even pay for the maintenance of its subway system and new passenger railway construction without financial assistance from the federal government. All of America is being mismanaged right now.
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  504. Awesome video! I’d love to see the comeback of Victorian era streetcar suburbs in Canada/USA!
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  505. I don’t think anyone should be surprised by what happened in the Java Sea and the shallow waters off Indonesia. Those South-East Asian countries are very poor and mismanaged despite their abundance of oil, rubber, palm oil, and lumber. Just like Nigeria (exports millions of barrels of crude oil everyday), but 90% of the population lives in poverty.
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  506. As a whole, all New England states are losing people very fast due to major economic problems in that region.
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  507. Not a valid excuse to use fires and trees as an example for terrible urban sprawl. Stop blaming the workers and blame the urban planners, architects and regulators for not designing fire protection systems in place.
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  508.  @clamato54  Traffic engineers are the ones in charge of all the bad urban planning. They do what they do because they have a transportation monopoly over all of America. It’s not GM or Ford pulling the strings like what most folks are made to believe. Traffic engineers always do highway projects and never do subway, streetcar, buses, local street etc. projects because it’s easy to draw stroads, but tough for the rest of society.
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  509. 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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  510. China is in the same path as the USA. The mentality of sending every able bodied person to university, regardless of the long term costs or whether there are THAT many white collar jobs. In China, it’s stress, overworking your grades, and going crazy with academics. In America, it’s student loan debt and other ridiculous admission standards that is driving society downhill. Realistically, you only need 20% of your youth to go to university. The other 80% should be doing a middle skill set education or some sort of vocational training. Finland, Denmark, and pre-WW2 Germany all had this type of “standard education” model for their youth.
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  511. I am an American, having lived in the USA all my life, and what you say doesn’t surprise me. A friend of mine married a Ukrainian woman and told me that she respects many middle class Americans for not consuming heavy amounts of alcohol, while many Eastern Europeans drink alcoholic beverages like water.
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  512. There are many alternative solutions that exist, but they are not used because of short term monetary/economic pressures or slow policy changes that create such disasterous and ugly buildings.
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  513.  @DigitalBenny  Last longer? By how much? Another 50 years? People will not maintain or make a building endure if they do not have the LOVE for such a building. Its why you still see centuries old castles still standing, while Soviet style block apartments are being torn down or abandoned.
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  514.  @DigitalBenny  Yeah, you got nothing to prove your point. You should also take into account the decline of technical-creative skillsets all over America; so you're "miracle material" won't make a difference in the overall problems.
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  515.  @steveperreira5850  No kidding, buddy! Everyone laughs at American engineering and admires German engineering. Who invented the combustion engine? Who invented freeways? Germany! The main argument that I was also trying to make above is how every country today has embraced American engineering degrees and American style of doing design work. Not German.
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  516.  @fbabarbe430  What are you talking about? The USA gets whatever immigrant leftovers that Canada has (first) taken for themselves. The best and brightest immigrants all go to Canada first, and if the Canadian legal immigration does not accept them, then they go to the USA. Check out the US/Canadian immigration systems first. America (since 1965) has become the flop house for many nations.
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  517. “Hitler hated Slavs”, “Hitler was a racist”, “Hitler hated this and that”…. Blah blah blah Aside from Hitler bashing Jews, he was the least racist individual. Hitler made friends with the Ottomans, the Japanese and the Chinese. If he were the “American style racist”, he would’ve used his military assets to kill Non-Whites (which he never did).
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  518.  @markgarland9000  Wow, I did not know that… I always thought we got the monster sized window AC’s in the 1980s or 1990s. Thanks for telling me! It seems to me that before WW2, we had the the right HVAC controls for medium and high density buildings, but little for low density buildings. Nowadays, we have all the right HVAC tools for low density buildings, but we’re terribly lacking with how HVAC controls works for larger buildings…
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  519. General contractors HAVE to pay their sub-contractors, suppliers, and be ON TIME when the utility inspector comes in to check the work! If he did not smash up the bathroom remodel, then the other guys would’ve put a “lean” against her property until she pays!! If the customer signed a contract during the estimates; then the customer has to pay the full price!
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  520.  @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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  521.  @brijohn6493  It really is. Recent war proves the point I made above about severe brain drain in Russia/Ukraine.
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  522.  @brijohn6493  Haha, as if you know so much about my life experiences.
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  523. I think the misperception that many people have, comes from an arrogant mindset. If you’re a welder who only specializes in automotive manufacturing, then yes, it makes sense why you’re paid terribly and at risk of your job getting replaced by automation. However, welders are still in high demand elsewhere in the petroleum industry, chemicals industry, construction industry etc. etc. I think most people don’t know how to prioritize their skill sets and also don’t realize that with an increase in sub-specializations and an increase in safety hazards; you get paid more money! In other words, life is more of than art, than a mathematical equation. It’s about being natural artists.
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  524. It is more than just the military action happening on the ground. These days, the real enemy does not lie on the battle front, but rather behind you with all those bankers and weapons producers.
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  525. Are you talking about American demographics? Hardly any babies are being made in Gen Alpha and very few people were born in Gen Z. America is in desperate need of skilled people who can do important/demanding work, so seems to me like (maybe) you’re right? I really don’t know…
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  526. Not if you live in a highly federalized American empire.
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  527.  @wallcouldtalk  America no longer controls its own national destiny. Our so called “leaders” are mere employees to this rotting, corporate empire that must bend backwards to the demands of globalist organizations that dictate our laws/policies. The best we can do is to work locally and use local means/community to stop, blockade or strike down these foreign demands.
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  528.  @Andre-qo5ek  You are very correct. Inflation, market manipulation, and high taxes steal the average person pay check.
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  529.  @Andre-qo5ek  If they wanted to be the “best president” ever; all they’d have to do is abolish the federal reserve and nationalize giant corporations. But no, they’re not doing any of that. They’re not addressing the root cause of the problems we are faced with. The federal reserve bank can print money faster than you or I can save our money.
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  530.  @manderly33  Before the two world wars, America had 0% income taxes and yet we had modern infrastructure, beautiful cities, the best schools, well educated people, powerful unions etc. If my tax dollars are not being spent on infrastructure, health care, and other social/public services; why should anyone accept greater income tax increases?
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  531.  @manderly33  You don’t even know me, so yeah, “big deal” on your part.
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  532. @ How about we bring back our manufacturing base and stop relying on China to produce everything for us.
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  533. @ Harris and Trump don’t care about anything. It’s very obvious at this point. They’ll say whatever and do whatever to get elected and continue on with the gravy train. I’d rather focus on local politics (which I can control) over federal politics that is all backed by corporate lobbyists. In all honesty, I’m down for ending the union (American Empire) and calling for secession of states.
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  534.  @notaburneraccount  I don’t really care about what the president or VP does. This is more than just “left vs right” or “Democrat vs republican” politics. We’re much bigger than this country federal politics. A lot more can be accomplished at the local level than what goes on at DC.
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  535.  @brianh9358  If Trump, Harris etc. wanted to be on the good side; they’d abolish the federal reserve.
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  536.  @brianh9358  The federal reserve is a private bank issuing American currency (dollar). It has no reserves and its not owned by the federal government. You can work hard all you want, but your labor, savings and wages won’t keep up with inflation. They can print money faster than you can save it. It’s why “debtors” (capital) are the biggest winners and labor are the biggest losers.
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  537.  @brianh9358  1972 was when the American dollar came off the gold standard, thanks to Nixon. It has been on the debt standard since then. With certain commodities like oil (somewhat) backing up the American dollar. We’re in for some rough times ahead and neither Trump nor Harris can solve our problems. We’re on our own.
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  538. @ I never recommended a return to the gold standard. That’s impossible to do today, since all our gold reserves left America before the 1980s. What I’m saying is that we don’t have anything to back up our currency anymore. For a short while after the gold standard was removed; we had petrodollars and computer chips to (somewhat) back up our currency. We’re going to lose the petrodollar in several years time and we no longer hold the “skilled labor” advantage to back up our currency. When our currency is backed by nothing; it simply gets hyper-inflated, and our entire society will go under. Neither “geriatric patient” (Trump or Harris) can solve these pressing issues. We can only take matters into our hands and form a tight community to endure these hard times ahead of us.
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  539. @ 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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  540. Logistics also involves a lot of engineering work and given the fact that Russia engineering arm collapsed in the 1980s is no surprise. I also read a US Army report stating that Russian military units cannot operate more than 80 miles from a railway depot because of how lacking they are in logistics and engineers.
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  541.  @crashdavis4123  That depends on what kind of contractor you work as. I don’t know how your school communicated with the painters, but here is what I can tell from my experience working in HVAC. If you’re an HVAC controls technician/engineer, you’re making decent money because nobody understands how pneumatics/DDC systems work anymore. Most men working in HVAC are dinosaurs who are part of a dying breed. On top of that, we’re got anti-trust laws enforced on small-medium sized enterprises to encourage ridiculous business competition. When you have dwindling labor in controls/HVAC, high business competition for the sale of proprietary equipment, and government mandates for energy efficiency on buildings. You get into a situation where anyone who owns large property gets financially burned real fast.
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  542. I work with low voltage HAVC controls and that was very well explained! Bravo!
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  543. The last time the “constitutionalists” stood up for their rights; America not only fought a massive civil war but many states called for secession too. It’s time we end the union and the American empire.
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  544. I don't understand what my fellow Americans have become. All you guys do is complain all day about how the Germans or Italians or Japanese or Koreans run their automotive business. Meanwhile, you don't want to invest or improve American automotive design/engineering/manufacture while you drive your foreign built clown cars around. What a damn shame...
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  545. I’m sorry to hear that. I didn’t want to borrow a lot of money to pay for college. It seemed foolish to me when I was 18 years old. Instead, I saved up $10k and went to community college for an electromechanical engineering technology program (AAS). Fast forward 10 years, and I’m working as a welding engineer earning a good $110k/year.
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  546. No, Mao was more of a military strategist than an economic/social reformer. Chiang Kai Shek was honestly not better in terms of thinking compared to Mao. Chiang was a solider and he too didn’t understand social/economic reforms.
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  547. Office work is the reason why you have so much obesity and heart disease in America. If all you’re doing is ordering takeout, driving a car and sitting in a cubicle all day; you’re guarantee to give yourself a lot of health problems later on in your life. No different from some blue collar trade work. So I don’t understand what you’re going at.
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  548.  @Paeoniarosa  You don't go from 0 to 100 overnight. You have to build up skills, work experience, social connections, and understanding of more subjects in order to run a business well (if you can handle it). I've worked self-employed and small shop as a journeyman electrician. But it took me many years of work experience, additional community college training and mentorship in order for me to even do a small business operation.
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  549.  @nanny8675309  Good on you! Bravo! I think the reason why he mentioned plumbing, car mechanic and electrician is because those are the only trades most people "know about." However, he also emphasized that plumbing and car repairs is not something that is easy to get in. It takes several years of vocational schooling and work experience under a master plumber/mechanic/electrician to actually be really good in your given trade. I work as a journeyman electrician and can easily tell who is a good electrician or not based on their hands on ability with building motors.
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  550.  @jowen001  Those in the skilled trades work physically for only ~15 years of their career. After that, they move up to become foreman, managers, supervisors, master tradesmen etc. doing work on blueprints with engineers. A master plumber doesn’t go around building toilets for various properties. That’s apprentice level work. A master plumber will be busy in an office setting working on blueprints with a mechanical engineer. Same applies to electricians, sprinkler fitters, carpenters, cement masons etc.
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  551.  @slayer2450  Your mother is right and wrong at the same time. Her statement might be true for some trades, but there are many other trades that are unionized, highly regulated and highly competitive.
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  552. @ There is no such thing as an “ideal career.” Many white collar workers get heart attacks and high blood pressure problems from sitting on their ass all day. Blue collar trades such as a carpenters, tend to leave their respective trade after 15-20 years or they become a foreman. At the end of the day, you have to decide for yourself what is your priority instead of listening to whatever nonsense idiots have to say.
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  553. @ Some blue collar trades have very strong labor unions that back them up. Yet very few people even realize it. Instead, we keep pushing more folks into white collar professions without any sort of safety net, benefits, proper pay etc. to add salt to the wound, many parents even demand their own children to take out student loans to pay for college degrees.
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  554. American wages have been stagnant since the 1980s, while average expenses have been going up and up since. 2024 and onwards, China is doing well because of their investments and labor productivity.
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  555. US is always for sale. America is not a sovereign nation. America is an incorporated business.
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  556. What is your major? Sociology? I finished a two year associate of applied science at technical community college and I started with $34/Hour.
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  557. Thank you very much for this video! I can feel that truck owner financial pain and frustrations, but at the end of the day, you really showed how important personal cleaning and maintenance of a car really is.
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  558.  @Dumbledore6969x  I was not referring to Uber or DoorDash.
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  559.  @playboicartiismydad4842  “Boer” in Dutch means farmer. Not slave master or slave owner. The Dutch (later on joined by the French Huguenots) were all farmers, not slave owners. The Boers managed their own farms, and once in a while, they paid an African to help them out with farm labor work. It was the British Empire who shipped unskilled Black labourers from West Africa to the Cape, in order to mine gold. Not the Boers.
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  560. From my experience, majority of newcomers to Canada and immigrants who came to Canada 30, 20 or 15 years ago are mostly leaving Canada for the USA or somewhere else. Canadian dollar is weak, jobs are scarce, the Canadian economy is tanking, housing is insanely expensive, and the cost of living is ridiculous. Most immigrants to Canada simply use Canada as a gateway to get into the America in a much faster and easier way. That’s really it. If not, America, then they’ll use Canada to get into Australia or Nee Zealand.
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  561. Even if we were to drop zoning codes, the government has big taxes on new housing construction. As we speak, new housing construction is already slowing down because nobody can afford anything.
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  562. Good luck building more housing outside the green belts of the GTA. If there are no adequate schools, hospitals, employment, public transit, cheap gasoline etc. nobody is gonna settle in those areas for the long term.
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  563. It’s easier to add on more zoning codes than it is to dissect existing zoning codes. Even then, cost of housing is not going down because everyone knows the land is too valuable in Toronto with all these high rise condos going up everywhere.
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  564. 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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  565. Biggest problem with right turns on red light is the fact that if you actually slow down, come to a full stop and look for any pedestrians or cyclists on your right side; drivers behind you will often get angry at you for not speeding through or doing a rolling stop and quickly moving on.
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  566. 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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  567.  @pamelqtaylor8335  Wow!!! That is amazing! Thank you for sharing your story! I’ve talked to retired folks (boomers) who worked in aerospace and automotive manufacturing as a career. They tell me the same story as you do! Despite a desperate need for highly trained machinists and industrial electricians; nobody has the patience to do an apprenticeship. Even back in the 60s, it was frowned upon for a young person to do a skilled trade or some sort of vocational training at community college. It was “college, college, and graduate school at the way!”
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  568. This is what happens when you combine poor school systems with car dependent suburbia (psychological isolation) and the promotion of financial speculation over skilled work.
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  569. The reason why most people in North America prefer SUV over hatchbacks and sedans, is because of crumbling road infrastructure. Driving a small vehicle will cost you a lot more in maintenance, since your constantly banging your tires in potholes or large cracks. That is why everyone goes for the heavier vehicles. It’s also about safety, since there are many people who cannot properly handle a car, but need to for minor errands.
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  570.  @desmo8755  The dollar decline is a big factor leading to expensive housing. We don't produce anything, our work force is sluggish thanks to decades of poor policy/leadership, and we don't produce anything of value anymore. All we do is take on debt and import stuff. Real Estate will hold its value as long as immigration remains high in big cities; while those who own land or property outside a big city are holding on to assets that can stay ahead of inflation.
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  571. What you say is very true! That could explain why the only other “great places” to visit in Canada/USA are National Parks and Conservation Areas (aside from old downtown cores). I see many Americans with memorable times spent in nature, wilderness, on site camping or being able to kayak and fish at a remote lake. Seems to me like many have replaced good urban places for farms, railroad towns, and Amish-ville country.
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  572. Logistics weren’t the issue. Treachery and betrayal were the problems for Hitler. Source: Hitler Revolution - Richard Tedor
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  573. Britain fought the two world wars against Germany because the English were jealous of German industrial and economic growth while British industry, commerce and trading kept on declining. Liberalism is the moral rot for the collapse of British Leyland motors.
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  574.  @VKBudo  Russia/Ukraine are still very poor countries. Even before the war, the former Soviet Republics still cannot feed most of its people. Compared to the USA, Russia/Ukraine are doing much worse in terms of social capital, economy and health index.
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  575.  @koomo801  Wow, I did not know that!! Thank you for letting me know! I’ve read articles of SUVs and pickup trucks burning a lot of engine oil after total vehicle mileage is more than 70k miles. My Equinox has 45k miles on it.
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  576.  @BeefNEggs057  Holy cow! That’s crazy! Thank you for letting me know! GM is what I would describe as a “grey zone” where some of their cars are great but others are god awful designs.
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  577.  @koomo801  I use Mobil 1 full synthetic engine oil for my Chevy Equinox. No matter what it says; I change the oil every 2k-3k miles just to be on the safe side. Yes, you are correct about the battery issue of most modern cars. I get the battery checked quite often and if there is the slightest problem; I get the battery changed out right away. I don’t know about the “lower maintenance” for newer cars. My Equinox started to show some structure rust after two years of driving; so I got rust protection paint for my Equinox. I drove a 2001 Saturn LS2000 sedan for 10 years and there was hardly any structure rust after 10+ years of driving.
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  578. 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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  579. The last few decades have been an anomaly in all of human history. We’ve always relied upon close knit community, family, relatives, close friends etc. to meet our basic needs. If you want all that fancy housing, infrastructure etc. then you have to pay A LOT for that. Otherwise, you’re better off living in Amish-ville horse and buggy. Small town Canada is out there and affordable for many people.
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  580. Don’t forget to mention China. China started their semiconductor industry at around the same time as India, but China pulled ahead in many ways.
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  581.  @nancyk3615  Thank you!
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  582. Ronald Reagan has always been a brilliant actor. He fooled many with his good looks, smiles, and “patriotic” speeches.
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  583.  @floragraves5167  The issue isn’t just Ronald Reagan. By the 1980s, America became consumers first and producers second. After America burned out all our savings/investments after WW2. Americans were encouraged to borrow ridiculous sums of money to pay for a lifestyle that America could not afford.
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  584.  @Livvvid  Germany understood that it's a lot cheaper to purchase natural resources from Russia, rather than use overcomplicated logistics to deliver resources by cargo ships from the Middle East or Africa.
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  585.  @apassionatenerd.3564  Russia cannot feed or house the majority of its citizens, let alone maintain a modern military force. Their logistics and rear echelon units are poor and not intended to fight outside Russian territory. USA is going broke spending hundreds of billions each year to defend other countries who couldn't give a two shits about financially poor and struggling Americans. We spent $5 trillion fighting in Iraq. If we had spent that money on improving our infrastructure, adding more affordable housing to our cities and giving struggling farmers/ranchers a helping hand; we'd be much better off today. And no, I'm not sorry, America is not a flop house for the world problems.
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  586.  @apassionatenerd.3564  USA has also sunk to 3rd world status with unaffordable housing, inflation, high taxes, and unemployment issues.
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  587.  @seankaminsky6578  Wow, that is crazy. I didn't know that.
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  588. They way Russia used its land, sea and air forces in this conflict really shows how badly organized they are. Their army failed to capture Kiev because of poor logistics, their Black Sea Fleet is stuck hugging the coast (making them stationary targets of attack), and their air power is also pathetic as well. Now we’re waiting on the final prophecies of Alois Irimaier come up.
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  589. 24 year old Gen Z here. I might be the “unicorn” in this crowd here. My parents have owned a 1985 Buick Regal, 2001 Saturn LS2000 sedan, and a 2005 Chevy Malibu. They’ve since sold off their Buick Regal and Saturn sedan, but my dad still drives his 2005 Chevy Malibu. I pretty much grew up around American cars in my family, and my 2017 Chevy Equinox is still going strong at 95k miles. A big problem that I see today, are folks who use (and abuse) their car for 3 years before trading their wrecked car for a new one. It used to be that you’d own a vehicle for (minimum) 10 years before swapping out for a new car.
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  590.  @orangeclay0922  Have you tried GM? They still produce Chevy Malibu sedans.
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  591.  @orangeclay0922  What about a Buick Encore? A friend of mine recently purchased a brand new Buick Encore for around $23k. I know $23k is a bit more than compared to a Toyota sedan going for $20k, but there was no need for a wait list and there won’t be any problems getting any spare parts etc. for a Buick. Just my personal experience, not trying to force anyone into paying more money for a car.
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  592.  @RustandRedemption  Not really. Some of the greatest American engines (Chevy small block) were developed in the 1950s; during a time of great economic and financial wealth across America. The real problem that caused the decline of American cars is management. By the 1970s, most engineers were fired from GM, Ford, and Chrysler. Only to be replaced by accountant and regulators who don’t understand cars. Same with the blue collar workforce. We replaced all our skilled mechanics and technicians with high school dropouts and then wonder why our cars are not selling? Despite all that, you still had great American models like the Buick Regal, Chevy Malibu - Iraqi Taxi, and Pontiac models that were all designed by automotive professionals.
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  593.  @kyleworley1958  Wow, you are so delusional to economics and monetary policy. I feel sorry for you.
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  594.  @deriznohappehquite  Not true. Canada has more cranes per capita than the entire USA combined. That and take into account that Canada has less than 1/3 America population. What’s really driving up the cost of housing is 1) pension plans tied into real estate, 2) Canada unhinged immigration policies and 3) overtaxation by the government. Canada, like America, has already dumped many of its 1950s suburban zoning codes.
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  595.  @ColinWrubleski-eq5sh  The problem with these population statistics is that they’re done very decade, not every month or year. Political policies can immediately change overnight, causing massive changes suddenly. With Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden allowing tens of millions of illegal and legal immigrants in; there is good reason to believe that the population figures are way higher than expected. And no, Wikipedia is a bad source to get info from. It’s well known by American medical associations and individual medical professionals that 90% of what Wikipedia mentions on their site about “medical science” is false, untruthful or dishonest. Sharyyl Atkinson did a Ted Talk about how Astroturfing works in our present time.
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  596. America is an incorporated business. So are all the states and local towns. All are registered as corporate entities. That’s the real problem that we have. Everything is simply “a business.”
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  597. Don’t give up or lose faith! You’re not the only one out there that’s experiencing this. I finished an associate of applied science at technical community college way back in 2022. I’m 23 years old, and working full time as a controls technician. Still living with my parents. The economy is really soft right now and there aren’t that many jobs either, so don’t be too hard on yourself. Most of our institutions don’t prepare people for real life and we have to figure this out on our own. What is are higher purpose in life, what is the meaning behind all this, what is my personality etc. etc.
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  598.  @prof_rob_k  No worries my friend. God bless you! You’re not the only young man struggling out there. I’ve seen a few videos already of other guys who are well educated and in good health, but are having a difficult time with employment, social life etc. We as young men have to (first) talk to Jesus Christ and obey the words of Christ before we’re able to succeed in anything else.
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  599.  @bakenbeans420  No it is not. Its called not being part of the "sucker class of young men". Being forced to go fight in a war and get maimed for what? To make the world an uglier place and create more profit for the bankers? Hell no! War is a Racket by Smedley Butler
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  600.  @OrEe87  War is a Racket by Smedley Butler
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  601.  @occamraiser  Britain and France economic decline happened way before the 1970s/80s. By the late 19th century, Germany was already out competing the French and British in heavy industry and manufacturing. Global demand for German products has always been high, thanks to German excellence in the techno-industrial fields. That was why the British and French waged two massive wars against Germany. By 1945, German industry had been totally destroyed and in the aftermath; only part of German industry was restored (I.e.: automotive). By the time you get to the 1970s/80s, the USA was outcompeting Britain in research and development. Japan was running victory laps around Britain and China was emerging as a major hub for corporate industries.
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  602.  @glynluff2595  Sounds to me like you’re referring to a moral crisis rather than an economic crisis in the Anglo-sphere of nations (Canada, USA, Australia, Britain). I live in America and I’ve spoken to older folks who tell me this moral rot started way back before the 1970s/80s. In the case of America, by the 1950s, nobody had the patience to learn a trade or work as an engineering technician (despite increasing demands for these professions). Even in the 1980s, American industry could only hire a fraction of the engineers they so desperately needed to implement new systems in a rapidly changing economy.
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  603.  @glynluff2595  Europe, Britain and America keep on voting for the same lying politicians who talk big, but then when they come into office; they don’t do anything or they make things worse. We’re beyond asking lying politicians for help. We need to become self-sufficient and self-reliant ourselves.
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  604.  @glynluff2595  And yes I 100% agree with you. We need more moderates doing things locally, instead of the crazies on the right and the crazies on the left running everything down into the ground. The federal and state governments won’t fix any of this. It’s really up to us the people to figure out what to do at the local level.
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  605. Oh that’s okay; all of your problems are not the fault of Nigerian leadership. Everything is still the fault of the White man!!! How do we know this?! Well, since it’s local Nigerians stealing from each other, it has to be evil Whites who still encourage this behaviour!! Lol
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  606. These short documentaries tend to focus on the main battles of the Burma campaign. Not so much the logistics, engineering, medical science, politics, supply chains, etc. of the campaign. If they were to talk about the African divisions from West/East Africa (who mostly worked as roadway construction labor) then this documentary film would be 6 hours long and no one would watch it.
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  607. Welcome to the new confederacy!
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  608.  @OccidentalAryan  He has info that is still relevant. You may not have to play these dating games because you may have a tighter community to fall back on. Those of us who don't have a close knit community are forced to use other alternative methods for dating/marriage.
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  609. I’ve never used Uber Eats, Door Dash, Lyft, Grub Hub or any of these services app. So all this info is very new to me. But I’m not surprised. Here in America, we’ve totally lost the script of what it means to be doing “business.”
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  610. Your argument makes no sense at all. A young professional can easily sponsor their entire family over to the new country without much trouble. Especially here in the USA, where it is easy to put your entire family on welfare. University education is also overrated these days. All these so called “highly educated people” are snobs who study the same concepts, same theory and same skill sets; which makes you no different from every other university graduate. The rate of innovations, research and development is rapidly slowing down because nobody has any sense of creativity.
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  611. If you and your spouse are daring; you could do it the old fashioned way of buying a little parcel of land and building something from there.
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  612.  @后宫后  Is that best you got? I know your another one of those lousy astroturfers.
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  613. Hitler lost the war thanks to treachery and betrayal by his generals (German aristocrats). Source: Hitler Revolution - Richard Tedor
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  614. @CGravely-in2sl Yes, you are partially correct. There are some trades that are very demanding, and not worth the pay. For example, Canada has a shortage of skilled carpenters because carpenters are considered a "volunteer trade" where you're forced to build houses in accordance to market fluctuations and government policy. It's an extreme boom and bust cycle for carpenters. On top of that, most carpenters leave their trade after their mid 30s because as you age, you can no longer keep up with physical demands.
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  615. I’ve got nothing against a research scientist or biologist or gardener who creates new seed variety for farming, environmental control, or just pleasure plants. I mean, the avocados that we eat today were hybridized (by accident) when a farmer mixed two different species of avocado together. We allowed 1-20% profit margins on seeds for a short period of time in order to reward innovation. Nowadays, higher profit margins are used as a massive financial transfer of wealth to the top.
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  616. There were little to no zoning codes back in the 1940s... These days, if people tried to grow a garden in their front yard; they'd get arrested or fined! Many locals in other states constantly fight the enforcement of very absurd zoning laws that make it illegal to do anything productive in your community!! How can anyone use public transit in car dependent suburbia??! There is NO SUCH THING AS PUBLIC TRANSIT OUTSIDE THE BIG U.S CITIES OF NEW YORK OR CHICAGO!!! America no longer caters to the middle class or working class folk. America caters to anyone with Big $$$; regardless of wall street investor or a king pin (drug dealer) who encourages teens to take heroin. Unlike the modern software industry (which is exclusive, and discriminates against many). The manufacturing industry that America had was more inclusive and offered more economic opportunities to ordinary folk. On top of that, big business no longer feels a sense of cultural connection to the ordinary people. Yes, John D. Rockefeller was a snob at times, but he built many institutions, public parks, opera houses, monuments etc. and gave it to the ordinary folk. Unlike present day big businessmen; they feel no obligation to the ordinary folk, other than a meager pay packet every month.
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  617. Good video. I think you should've also mentioned Alois Irimaier on his future predictions regarding the planet.
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  618. Hitler mistake was trusting his generals who deliberately sabotaged his plans. Source: Richard Tedor - Hitler Revolution
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  619. China invested heavily in education and infrastructure before their big manufacturing boom started in the 2000s. India on the other hand, invested heavily into IT systems and IT professionals. That move benefitted the existing middle and upper class, but didn’t solve any other economic problems India has. It’s easy to set up a corporation in China when government tax laws favour you and there is plenty of road, rail and port infrastructure to easily ship your goods overseas.
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  620.  @davegrohl817  Okay boomer, keep living in your fantasy world.
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  621.  @davegrohl817  Its not cope. Its hard facts that you can search up and cross reference yourself. You're just delusional.
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  622.  @alexisgarcia1344  Thank you for sharing your story! A big problem with our present day leadership is how callous and predatory they tend to be. I don’t think it’s going to get any better. Home schooling and private tutoring is a better alternative (the way I see it). I’m very sorry to hear about how you and your students are treated. That is awful! Everywhere I go these days, it’s one disappointment after another with the way our country is going.
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  623.  @stephaniewebb9474  Really? I never knew any of that! Can you link me some sources? I’m very interested in how all these big businesses lobbied to get rid of home economics and shop classes.
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  624. The Dieppe Raid really showed how excellent of a military Hitler had and how the Canadian government basically threw away its own young men. If it had not been for the betrayal and treason of Hitler generals and other high ranking military staff, the D-Day Invasion in June 1944 would have been more bloody and costly than the Dieppe Raid. I’ve read that most of the German commanders defending Normandy, France in June 1944 were active conspirators of Hitler. Only a handful were loyal to Hitler, like Infantry Commander Dietrich. That can explain why the 352nd Infantry Division inflicted heavy losses on U.S forces at Omaha beach, for example.
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  625. I’ve been driving a 2021 Chevy Equinox with a 1.5L Turbocharged Ecotec engine. Got 35k miles on it and no issues. Dealership told me to change engine oil every 10k, but I do it in less than half the time just to be on the safe side. These engines are really maintenance sensitive and something that should not be taken light heartedly.
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  626. Justin Trudeau needs to RESIGN.
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  627.  @longiusaescius2537  You're welcome.
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  628.  @Seahorn_  The Germans were more than capable of fighting the Allies, despite being outnumbered and outgunned. During the Italian campaign, the Allies outnumbered and outgunned the Germans 20 to 1 and yet, still suffered enormous setbacks/casualties against the Germans. For example, during the battle for Monte Casino, 300 New Zealand troops were killed in action trying to find and destroy a German machine gun crew of only 5 men. Hitler Revolution - Richard Tedor
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  629.  @aaap3875  The mismatch of skillsets is worse in some countries than compared to others. Overall, China and America are really mismatched in skillsets, by far the worst.
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  630.  @kainsarafan8190  That’s very good on you. However, with high inflation these days and the fact that you need a bunch of tools for starters; it’s simply not financially feasible for most youngsters. They can’t even get their foot in the door to begin with. Those that do, rely heavily on their parents for financial support, otherwise they’d be drowning in high debt.
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  631. The Anglo-Americans can thank German treachery and betrayal for their military success in France. Source: Hitler Revolution - Richard Tedor
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  632. EV's cost more than a gasoline powered car. On top of that, EV's don't perform well in cold weather when compared to gasoline cars.
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  633. Middle skillsets?
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  634. I’m 100% happy with my associate of applied science degree from technical community college. I’ve got plenty of work doing controls and automation. Unlike so many of my fellow peers, who were basically shamed or guilt tripped into wasting time at a four year college.
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  635. 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.” Source: Skills needed by BAS Technicians - Jay Santos (Facility Dynamics Engineering) Talk at Laney College
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  636.  @keithnewton8981  German auto makers have always been the best in the world. No British auto maker has ever come close to competing against Germany in skilled workers, quality production, machinery, and industrial capacity to build high quality cars. You’re just bluffing.
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  637.  @MartinBielkovic  We used to enforce anti-trust laws to ensure fair pricing, but now we don’t, thanks to lobbyists bankrolling politicians.
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  638. Unlike hyped up media and general public perceptions. Most U.S military veterans worked as cooks, mechanics, logistics personnel or rear echelon units that had no combat requirements at all (i.e.: Facility-HVAC engineering). I think it is rude to call recent U.S military veterans terrorist bums because of "perceived perceptions". Most men and women join up in the armed forces because they need a formal education, vocational training for later on civilian life, or because they do it for the retirement benefits. That is why the so called "investigators" cannot measure "extremism" in the military.
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  639. You forgot to mention how the USA and NATO are also problem makers in Europe. As an American, I want to return my fellow soldiers, sailors and pilots back home, in America, where they belong! We are fed up with all the banker wars and profiteering of the weapons manufacturers!
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  640.  @GazalKwatra  Most of these well educated professionals remain under employed in Canada for the rest of their time spent here. Most Canadian taxi drivers are medical doctors/nurses who can never transfer their skills and experience over. You'll also find many auto body technicians with engineering degrees but cannot work as engineers in Canada because of economic limitations.
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  641. A big deception is the fact that everyone is told that we live in a time of peace. False! We are (in fact) in a state of total war; where the foundational principles that govern American society is being eroded and systematically destroyed over time!
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  642. Tax payers are so 20th century… meaning there is no such thing as Tax payers anymore, only printing money from the rolling presses.
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  643. And the excuse they all make is “inflation is forcing everything up” but it’s really just greed.
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  644.  @jgw9990  Not true whatsoever. That might be the case with certain parts of Europe, but in America, we built cities and suburbs for the wealthy and upper middle class. The wealthy will always have access to better education, better health care, better housing in an urban environment, and be able to provide more for their children.
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  645.  @jgw9990  Not exactly true. That can be the case for some families, but not the majority of wealthy families.
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  646.  @bullhead900  But it takes good manpower, commercial business, and strong industry to create the money needed.
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  647. It’s not always about personal profits and individual hedonism. It is about the long term security and stability of the American nation.
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  648. 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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  649. Cities are for wealthy people, while the areas surrounding the city are where all the poor people live. Suburbs historically have been a mix of middle class and working class folk who live near a city, since that is where you'd traditionally find a bunch of manufacturing, public sector, services, and commercial jobs. As the city grew, the outskirts would get swallowed up by wealthy real estate developers, which in turn allows the ordinary middle class or working class folk to sell their property for a high price, make a profit and move out financially better.
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  650. Putin does not care about maintaining a good Russian state with a prosperous economy, high standard of living, and a healthy population demographic. If he were so concerned about those noble things, he would’ve never allowed his generals to become multi-millionaires who launder money into yachts or allow a small group of big businessmen to plunder Russia natural resources for their own financial benefit.
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  651. Hitler Revolution - Richard Tedor
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  652. A lot of shoes and clothing are made in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Brazil, Mexico, Thailand etc.
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  653. Easier said than done, when most counties and states are going bankrupt from car dependent suburban sprawl. This leaves the Federal government left for receiving financial grants and loans, or more predatory options in the private banking world.
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  654.  @jsebby2284  Civil Engineer and Land Use Planner (Chuck Marohn) of Strong Towns has written countless articles, two American urban planning books, and travelled across USA to explain the development issues every American faces. The mounting infrastructure costs for cars, lack of public transit, and overtly strict zoning codes make for a financially insolvent mess. Public School Teachers are just one group of people who have to pay the heavy price for the short sightedness of American leadership. Finland does not have this inherent car dependent suburban problem. That's the main difference!!
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  655. Germany was allowed to revive after 1945 because of the growing might of the American supplied Soviet Empire. However, Germany is still not what it used to be… And the victors will never be asked if they spoke the truth.
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  656. Russia can outproduce the EU in terms of military hardware, but not the USA. The problem with American military aid to Ukraine is that the Americans have little to spare. Their own armed forces have a set standard of minimum requirements for ammo, artillery, tanks etc. So, the USA had to scramble to find contract industrial manufacturers to produce munitions/guns for Ukraine.
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  657.  @ggez-yc1ui  Russia economy is not the American economy. If that were the case, Russia would've already taken Ukraine in a matter of weeks and not still be fighting in eastern Ukraine. Lol
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  658.  @NeostormXLMAX  After WW2, America has always been "half assing" everything it does, Lol.
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  659.  @Miami1991  America industrial economy still represents a fraction of the American GDP, so the U.S industrial base (while badly weakened) is far from beaten. In terms of Iraq and Vietnam, those were wars fought for money, not patriotism. The military industrial complex is still big, wealthy and strong in the USA thanks to lucrative federal contracts. And no, America has no need for such massive WW2 style army divisions to fight a big land battle when it has other high tech in its arsenal to use en masse (Alois Irimaier). In terms of dealing with China, America will beat back a Chinese military invasion too. (Alois Irimaier). "A lot more happening behind the scenes than what our eyes can see."
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  660. Individual freedom has been taken too far here in the USA. It’s not just drug abuse, crumbling families, homeless everywhere, lack of public transit, etc. etc. We have become the fattest nation on Earth with a lot of morbidly obese people on welfare and subsidies.
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  661. Britain defeated the wrong enemy.
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  662. Regardless of what happens, oil is too big for our modern society to let go of. Wind turbines require petroleum based lubricants to keep the gears running smoothly. Solar panels are made from oil and coal products. If we really wanted to be “green”, we’d use hydrogens derived from water and biofuels made from algae.
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  663. Well of course tank crew training is only going to take a few days time… All these Russian and European armoured vehicles are all based on American Industrial engineering. Russians are using medium tanks with American Christie caterpillar (suspension) tracks and Russian jet aircraft are based on stolen U.S. military aviation tech. This war only profits the bankers, politicians and weapons manufacturers.
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  664.  Jamesp wickstrom  Which is why this war is a complete waste of national resources.
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  665. No it’s not surprising that GM ignored all the Toyota recommendations. By the 1980s, GM no longer had engineers and automotive designers running the show. They had regulators and accountants designing cars, which is a disaster.
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  666.  @Tricklarock  America has always been a "consumer society" to a certain degree. Just that before the 1970s, you were encouraged to repair something that is broken, instead of just throwing it away.
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  667. British industry was in decline before the outbreak of WW1. Britain fought and knocked Germany out of the world markets for several decades in order to ensure its own industrial monopolies. However, by the 1980s/90s, Britain industries were still getting dismantled by Japan and the USA.
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  668. British industry was in decline before the outbreak of WW1. Britain fought and knocked Germany out of the world markets for several decades in order to ensure its own industrial monopolies. However, by the 1980s/90s, Britain industries were still (continuously) in decline.
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  669.  @mayurkanth6987  China is still a socialist nation. The central government heavily subsidizes skilled labor, industry and infrastructure. Lower labor costs for the unskilled does not mean better productivity. They simply get a full time job to work at and they also get subsidizes from the government.
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  670.  @robertherman4746  The USSR economy relied on the export of natural resources such as oil and gas. That’s where they got most their revenue from. Why spend more on improving agriculture, manufacturing, research, infrastructure etc. when you can import all your goods from the West?
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  671. @ High skilled professions such as accounting only require a lot of theory. Burger flipping and stacking boxes in a warehouse are low skilled professions that only require hands on (back breaking) physical work. Middle skillsets are in between high skilled and low skilled professions where you combine bother theory and hands on ability for your work. I’m in a middle skillsets profession as a welding engineer. I service automated machinery, do hands on installs of said automation equipment for customers, and also teach customers how to use the automation systems/tools for production purposes.
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  672. Amazing! Excellent! I love old films such as this!
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  673. When it comes to waste management, recycling and incinerators; we have the ability to automate these processes because every waste facility is designed to an industrial scale. You should consider technical-community college in the engineering technician program or a highly specialized machinist trade.
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  674. When 98% of the news media is owned by a few wealthy individuals; it’s no surprise they’ll present their opinions as “truth.”
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  675. Why don’t we see more art deco? Art deco is modern architecture that makes effective use of modern materials to make buildings beautiful/unique. It’s not like you need to hire craftsmen with 15+ years experience to build art deco structures. Art deco is simply the use of horizontal/vertical lines, trapezoids, hexagons, rhombus, rectangles and other basic ornamentation that are easily to produced without much difficulty or increase in cost. Personally, I think most architects have become too lazy and too sloppy to produce anything valuable.
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  676. History repeats itself.
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  677.  @silasmartin5210  It's more than just "reducing the barriers to entry." The U.S economy is very different from that of the UK economy. There is only so much tradesmen needed for a given economy, hence why some regions won't train more because its not necessary. Real estate construction/maintenance is speculative in the U.S with boom and bust cycles. Unless your in a big city union, sure you'll get a decent amount of work. But elsewhere, its small and medium contractors taking on the brunt. Our industrial sector is a shell of its former self and many blue collar fields have already been degraded or simply vanished from decades of "everyone to university."
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  678.  @tomjewell2509  You can learn plumbing in the army while you’re still there. Join the Army Corps of Engineers and ask for them to take you on as a plumbing apprentice.
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  679.  @Jaffer_cake  Physical injuries? You can get many health problems (I.e.: heart disease) from sitting in an office all day!
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  680.  @Jaffer_cake  There is no “perfect career” for anyone. If you work in an office, you should be aware of problems associated with sitting at a desk all day. Just like how guys are trained in safety for doing construction or working in a manufacturing plant.
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  681. Russia engineering arm totally collapsed in the 1980s. Even after ww2, with huge amounts of American supplies; Russia engineering arm was still severely weak and understaffed.
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  682.  @avppr3451  Good points you make!
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  683.  @WastedBananas  You do not understand how human biology works. 3 is needed to maintain a demographic because you have to account for gender ratios.
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  684.  @stelamo  In Maine and Florida (where there are a few aqua farms) I see fisheries feeding the farmed fish with barley, bait, worms and other grains. And no, it is not in indoor tanks, but they have big nets and tanks out in the ocean doing the aqua farming.
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  685.  @TStark-vj2wo  The reason why others fear environmental and health issues is because the average person has become dumber than compared to the previous generations of people.
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  686. Jeez… what the hell??! I’m reading through all these comments and I am amazed by the number of upper class (older) men who had a hard time with marriage and dating. I’m only in my 20s, working a skilled trade, earning decent money and I’m amazed by what I see!
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  687. The Springfield and Arisaka rifles are all copies of the German Mauser rifle.
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  688.  @rob6927  Russia spends a lot of money and resources on military but not so much on its own economy. If you look on a map, there are barely any highways or large fright railway systems in Russia compared to USA or China.
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  689.  @ayararesara6253  Not everyone is capable of self-governance and self-reliance. Ukraine is not Anglo-America.
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  690.  @rob6927  Congrats, you've proven yourself to be a troll and an astroturfer. Russia has nowhere near the amount of paved freeways that Germany, UK, USA and China have.
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  691.  @ayararesara6253  I was talking about the ability of self-governance, self reliance and self-sufficiency. Not all nations are capable of such things. Ukraine is one of them. The term "Anglo-America" is just a generalization that I used. America absorbed a large amount of Germans, Irish, Dutch, etc. peoples who are very capable of self-governance. Hence America economic, scientific-technical, and military might.
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  692.  @ayararesara6253  Ukraine population collapsed from 52 million in 1991 to under 30 million as of today. There are many Ukrainians and Russians whom, despite working full time, can't even afford to eat. Things will only get worse from here.
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  693. By 1914, liberalism morally rotting up the minds and hearts of Britain and France. Britain was the first European nation to industrialize. But by the end of the 19th century Britain industrial economy, engineering, manufacturing and commerce had fallen off the cliff while Germany industrial/commercial economic growth boomed. That’s why the First World War was fought. Britain and France didn’t want Germany to economically surpass them.
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  694. I stopped going to subway two years ago because they kept raising prices while decreasing the amount of toppings you get.
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  695. Inflation destroys entire societies and also destroys wages.
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  696. The majority of young men are too economically, financially and socially poor to ask women out for dates and marriage. We’ve basically fallen back into “the 30 years war” where the average marriage age has now been pushed to early and mid 30s… that’s if there are any decent men and women left.
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  697. I don’t know why plumber, electrician and elevator tech are so popular now. It’s not like we’ve got other trades such as sprinkler fitters, bakers, chefs etc. that are also in demand.
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  698.  @MrLuigiFercotti  Not true at all. Most folks simply aren’t cut out for the skilled trades. An electrician is not an installers job. It requires x amount of schooling, experience and hands on ability before you even start applying.
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  699.  @jonathanhardy8683  If you can’t get into the union, go for non-union small shop first to get some experience (1-2 years). You’re over thinking stuff and not actually doing anything to “build your resume.”
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  700.  @kevinnguyen7689  Always keep an open mind and look for alternate pathways. I started as small shop, non-union. But after 3 years of experience, I transferred out of that non-union small shop into a unionized company that I’ve been with since.
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  701. I normally don’t comment on you videos, but that was amazing and be try well done!! You had me laughing at the ridiculous comedy you made in the beginning! XD
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  702. To be real with you, the average person is getting hammered from all sides right now. We can’t even take care of our own sick and poor, but we continue on with unrestricted mass immigration? Most of our food has been turned into processed junk and eggs are some of the few remaining nutritious foods that are not so expensive (for now). And then we have all these “bad actors” running the entire country down into the ground with their gambling finances.
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  703.  @EdwardCullen667  Depends on who your "God" is.
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  704.  @EdwardCullen667  In that case, your talking about blind minded Pagan worship of a random deity by certain human tribes. In the case of Satanic worship and whether or not the Devil actually exists. Just look around yourself at the science and technology the intellectual minds around us produce. Christ came and taught absolute love, service, dignity and earnestness for every man. If we were truly following his teachings, why would such "talented people" design using such environmentally polluting, health hazardous and murderous concepts or equipment? This (i.e.: combustion engine utilizing flammable-explosive force, fire-heat force to run a jet engine etc.) are all inspired by the Devil/Satan.
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  705.  @EdwardCullen667  Study the works of Nikola Tesla, Victor Schauberger, and Walter Russel. They don't teach these men in the school curriculum because they threatened world domination of the Devil (from the scientific-technical fields).
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  706. @ $2 million dollars in Canada? The Canadian government will tax 60% of that and then you’ll lose the other 40% to high inflation. It’s not always about salaries.
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  707. Car centric suburbia is financially insolvent. When you sprawl everything out, you denude the tax base and increase the amount of infrastructure liabilities that you're obligated to maintain.
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  708.  @snap6532  The government does not care about the homeless problem. No government here in the Anglo-sphere of nations cares about its own people.
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  709.  @stevephan9688  "Aussies aren't racists". Well duh, Australians are obviously not racist! The problem is outsiders being put first instead of local people. If Aussie's were flooding into Vietnam, and taking away all the jobs, training programs etc. while Vietnam is in an economic hardship; there would be riots all over the place caused by the locals. In Australia, the corrupt government keeps things like that in check.
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  710.  @Thunderrolls87  On an massive industrial scale; no. But on a local/state level with the use of old style craftsmanship; then yes. America has already lost most of its industrial base and it won’t take another 5 decades to lose the remaining 10%.
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  711. That is a similar pathway to how I got started. I went to community college and studied HVAC controls. Worked as a service technician for a while and then transitioned to an electrician apprenticeship. Now I have my journeyman electrician license doing fire alarms and controls.
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  712.  @marcusmoonstein242  Thank you! I've thought about going doing a business, but I think I'm gonna need a few more years. Up here in Canada, we need our masters license to work as a contractor with multiple employees. Aside from my full time job, I do side hustles on weekends at various job sites. Very good on you! I can imagine the good money you're earning!
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  713. In all honesty, many people don’t realize how important skilled trades, farming, ranching, textiles manufacturing, and welding are to everyday survival. Sure, trading mortgage bonds and doing graphics design for a website is great; but if you cannot physically produce anything tangible. Then you won’t survive as a nation in case of emergency.
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  714.  @Stuff857  What are you talking about? Since communism, Russia has never been able to provide enough food, clothing, consumer goods etc. to the average citizen. Even before the war, Russia economy was doing terrible and many young Russians were already leaving the country for elsewhere.
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  715.  @sabinekoch3448  It's not just young people in Gen Z with poor work ethics or misperceptions of work. I see a lot of older folks constantly trying to increase their compensation while reducing their accountability. Snowflakes come from the clouds, and the clouds of the older folks (parents) who terribly failed their own children.
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  716. @CoMeNtArIO CoMeNtArIO Putin knows globally what he is doing with the war, because he has never served the interests of the Russian people.
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  717. One of my high school friends completed a bachelor of science in pure mathematics at a four year college. He told me that before you’re able to get any work in actuarial science (insurance); you need to do x amount of exams along with x amount of work experience to go with the exams. That all depends which sector of insurance you want to go into. Every sector (banking, government, mortgages, sports management etc.) has its own unique requirements.
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  718. Neither candidates are good. We’re bigger than this country federal politics.
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  719. If you are in student loan debt, that is your fault. That’s the harsh truth of the matter, as you should’ve done your research into education more carefully. Community colleges have a lot of (direct) industry sponsored programs that is low priced, short to do, and have practical courses.
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  720. You hire cheap workers, you get cheap and bad quality results. Simple as that. High quality will always be expensive.
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  721.  @opencommentsbbcnewsnight1704  Yes and no in regards to "mass immigration." Immigration back in the early 20th century was done incrementally and in line with what the local/national economy needed. Canada/USA absorbed many Germans, Poles, Ukrainians, Italians, Scandinavians etc. because an industrial economy is very inclusive and requires large amounts of competent labor. With massive deindustrialization in recent decades, there is no need for that many people because there are hardly any jobs to go around.
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  722. Many still believe they’re living in 1950s/80s America with high economic growth and high financial wealth. That’s simply not the case anymore. I envy those who were young adults back in the early 80s, where they were able to enjoy a very high level of prosperity.
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  723.  @jeffhill3681  Yep, that was me as an 18 year old. After I got my driver license and started using my parents car (2016 GMC Terrian) for road trips with friends. I started noticing the engine would get rough every time I started up the car. I didn’t know what the problem could be, so I started doing online research and learned to change engine oil and engine air filter very often to keep the engine running properly.
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  724. Too many people going to university and not enough people doing something that is actually in demand or in need. China is in the same situation as America was in.
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  725.  user-gb6yy3eo2p  China lacks creativity, innovation and the ambitious drive compared to the USA. China is only good at big infrastructure projects, military build up, and mega manufacturing. The best R&D has always come from from America and Europe.
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  726. Most of these poverty issues would be solved if American towns and cities revised their zoning code. Too many American urban areas are only zoned for car dependent suburbia. Life becomes really difficult when you have to pay for car associated expenses and you live far away from the nearest grocery store, clothing retailer, medical clinic etc. Downtown and inner city areas (former streetcar suburbs) have been taken over by the wealthy again; while the struggling poor are pushed into suburbs that are falling apart.
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  727. The trades are called “skilled” because there are standards to be meet. If you are able to demonstrate hands on ability with changing your car engine oil, fixing a bike, doing drywall, pulling Ethernet cables, installing a smoke detector, fixing a thermostat, cooking a proper meal etc. then you’ll increase your chances. Showing that you can do calculus is meaningless in the trades. No trade employer is willing to hire someone who comes in with “empty hands.” Other guys have ruined it for many employers and you. You’ll need a certificate from community college to prove your committed. On top of that, you need to know how to do things as an apprentice. Otherwise, the contractor company is paying you to just “hang out” with them all day.
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  728. ⁠ @HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle  Try community college first for a pre-apprentice trade certificate. You’ll increase your odds. In the meantime, try finding “hands on work” to do that can boost your resume/experience. When I finished high school at age 18, I was out changing engine oil for cars as a minimum wage employee before getting into the skilled trades.
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  729. The trades are called “skilled” because there are standards to be meet. If you are able to demonstrate hands on ability with changing your car engine oil, fixing a bike, doing drywall, pulling Ethernet cables, installing a smoke detector, fixing a thermostat, cooking a proper meal etc. then you’ll increase your chances. Showing that you can do calculus is meaningless in the trades. No trade employer is willing to hire someone who comes in with “empty hands.” Other guys have ruined it for many employers and you. You’ll need a certificate from community college to prove your committed. On top of that, you need to know how to do things as an apprentice. Otherwise, the contractor company is paying you to just “hang out” with them all day.
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  730. ⁠ @flakgun153  Not true at all. Most folks are simply not cut out for skilled trade work and don’t know what it means to work “hands on.” The trades aren’t cookie cutter, installers work as most like to think. You’re not paid $100/hour to only install receptacles. It’s a balance of theory and hands on ability; combined with education and work experience.
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  731.  @johnathan_mcnutt9473  I can share a similar story too. I did a pre-apprenticeship certificate at community college. But before enrolling, I worked a year at an auto service centre changing the engine oil and cleaning cars. It was “hands on work”, but helped me gain an upper hand on my resume when I was applying.
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  732.  @kingace6186  I had no social connections when going into the trades, but I developed the right skillsets before applying and convinced the hiring manager to take me on with what I had on my resume.
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  733.  @KRYMauL  If you know the union is too slow to respond; I suggest you start working at a non-union small shop first.
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  734. @ You have to keep in mind that while we were in school as a child or teenager; our entire economy transitioned from well paid industrial and service jobs, to merely speculating on real estate and selling natural resources. No new jobs are created when everyone is involved in real estate speculation (investing in a unproductive asset) and you certainly don’t need that much labor to extract raw materials for the global markets. I don’t know where you live, but that’s the case up in Canada. Nothing new or beneficial is created when everyone gets involved in bidding up the price of houses.
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  735. I don’t know what you’re talking about… just because David Cameron calls himself “conservative” does not mean he is actually conservative in any way or manner. David Cameron is what many scholars would call a “Neo-Conservative.” Or in other words, a Trotskyite.
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  736.  @tinkerthetinyrobot  "nazis didn't invent the autobahn." XD So what's next? Africa created the first missiles, and V-1 rockets? Asians invented the combustion and diesel engine? Lmao Everyone with a basic understanding of history knows that German engineering is always the best!
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  737.  @NeygarzruinedAmerica  1985 cars: costs $10k and lasts 40 years 2024 cars: costs $40k and lasts 5 years
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  738.  @TorianTammas  One of my buddies owns small carpentry business and they do renovation and remodelling of homes/stores. He told me he was willing to pay $50k for a high quality commercial pickup truck to haul big sheets of plywood around for his business. What he got offered by the dealership instead were “luxury pickup trucks” with tony trunk beds for $100k!! He refused to pay $100k for a new pickup truck and instead, had his old 2001 Chevy Silverado overhauled at a mom and pop garage for $23k.
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  739. I like how the narrator deliberately ignores German flying saucers, Base 211, Neu Schwabenland, Admiral Byrd encounter with South Pole German forces, and German U-Boats lurking around in Antarctic waters.
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  740.  @danielebrparish4271  Robotics are good at doing monotonous production work. However, there are other cases where you can spend billions of dollars on robotics, but a human welder, machinist or tool maker can do a better job for less cost.
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  741.  @j78513  Well said. Robotics and automation systems are complicated machinery that require extensive maintenance by a skilled technician, mechanic and/or electrician. When a robot goes down for an hour, that costs the company half a million dollars in lost productive time.
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  742.  @johnkemas7344  Don’t blame the unions for losing our manufacturing. 85% of our manufacturing problems come from poor management and not the work force. Our managerial class got lazy, stupid, short sighted and too greedy to adapt to modern standards. And no, I’m not making this up. Check out Dr. Edward Deming and his principles for quality. Our steel industry crumbled in the 1970s and 80s because we continued using open hearth blast furnaces to produce steel; which had become obsolete once electric arc furnaces came in around that time. Management failed to adapt and so failed. As for the American automotive industry, you can thank the upper managerial class for replacing mechanical engineers for accountants on the factory floor and in the design office starting in the 1970s.
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  743.  @hugolafhugolaf  85% of the problems are caused by management. Not unionized workers. Please check out Dr. Edward Deming and his principles of quality production.
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  744.  @og_steiney  I love how everyone blames the workers or unions for everything gone wrong. In reality, 85% of problems come directly from management lack of initiative, lack of leadership and short sighted thinking. Check out Dr. Edward Deming.
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  745.  @paulconner4614  Not surprised. Permissiveness and passivity is America moral rot. Aside from that, there are still very bad perceptions about community colleges, skilled trades, and working as a service technician/mechanic despite good pay. Another issue are employers who are unwilling to take on a first year apprentice without previous work experience. As mentioned in the documentary, China has the same issues as America now. Less and less young Chinese are willing to do an apprenticeship or community college or traditional (vocational) training because of bad perceptions with those jobs/diplomas.
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  746.  @Penny-vb1il  Not true. They're looking for people who are committed to an apprenticeship and not just willy-nilly going about. Try to earn a certificate first at community college before you apply for an apprentice job.
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  747.  @dr3amboy3657  A nation only needs to send 20% of its youth to university. Anymore than that, you get a grotesque skillsets mismatch. Asian countries are catching up to America in this labor mismatch.
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  748.  @ginastarosaQuimpo  Uniqueness in your personality, good manners and knowing how to build wealth incrementally is the key.
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  749.  @boobopish  We'll see what happens.
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  750.  @iruwild  If you have a PhD and you are flipping burgers, then that is your fault for not doing proper market-job research in your field of study. Besides, with the rise of automation, you don't need workers to flip burgers at a McDonalds.
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  751.  @peagames2002  Not everyone who carries a university degree is a well dignified person who is responsible. Universities are a business and view students as an expense. Universities here in the USA teach students as cheaply as they can get away with. Even good schools are producing an oversupply of graduates that are not needed by the economy.
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  752.  @andyng5321  The government calls itself "communist" but it is authoritarian. These days, China uses a mix of socialist-capitalist doctrine to do things. When Trump enacted tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum. The affected steel/aluminum companies are all state owned.
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  753.  @andyng5321  Not exactly, so don't care.
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  754.  @andyng5321  Nope.
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  755.  @andyng5321  You got any sources/evidence to back that up?
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  756.  @Tugela60  That also depends on whether or not you did co-operative education or any internships. You can get a job with a degree in political science, but you need additional credentials and licenses to find real work in that field. Harvard, Stanford and Ivy League are great schools; but there is still no guaranteed for full employment. Don't under estimate community colleges, as many offer far superior programs that are industry sponsored (unlike private/state colleges). At the end of the day, you must do your own research.
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  757.  @sunshineandwarmth  Consequences, that is still on them.
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  758.  @leechrec  Fields in high demand? That can be very confusing advice without doing your own research and study. For example, here in the USA, there is a great demand for specialists in biology, but that does not mean more biology jobs. Simply because most biology fields are focused mainly on R&D. So even if there is tremendous economic opportunity, you need certain social contacts and related work experience before you can even get into such a field. At the end of the day, you're responsible for making your own choices.
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  759.  @angeloalonzo5500  Not surprising. India universities produce 5 million bachelor of engineering students per year, and that is way too many.
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  760. @ The only point that I see in working a full time job in the mainstream is the work experience and credentials gained. As America further crumbles, more and more people will form their own crews/communities and build their own closed economies trading and helping each other out. Kind of like Japan economy before 1850.
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  761.  @greysnake2903  You don’t need a graduate or bachelor degree to figure this out. This is all common sense. But how many people are humble these days?
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  762. What’s interesting is that as John Deere continues to falter and make short sighted decisions based on financial greed. You’ve got East Asian companies (i.e.: Kubota) that are coming in to sell good quality machinery to farmers and contractors.
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  763. Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs did an episode of this!! The pig farmer started by collecting food waste all over Las Vegas in a truck and then feeding all that to all this pigs!
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  764. You guys at DOT do a terrible job in maintaining America infrastructure. We keep building new roads while older roads simply fall apart. Meanwhile traffic gets worse because public transit is basically non-existent. We need to return back to 1920s era of incremental development.
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  765. Strong Towns recommends a private to public investment of 40:1 ratio in order to maintain such massive infrastructures.
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  766.  @tommysalami420  “I bought my first house when I was only 21 years old for $15k, and managed to pay off that mortgage in 5 years time while pursuing a college degree. On top of that, I married your grandmother at age 22. You kids just need to work harder and quit being lazy.” Lol
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  767.  @tommysalami420  Astroturfer? Lol, try harder!
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  768. The destruction of reliable, efficient and affordable streetcar transit across America is thanks to public opinion being swayed in favour of private cars and freeways over railway transit. Americans voted with their money to opt for gasoline and cars instead of electric railways for transit. So, this is our fault and not the fault of GM or government.
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  769. Wow!! I did not know that! Thank you for sharing! I read Deming 14 points of management and that can explain some of the jobs I’ve quit in the past!
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  770. We usually talk about the two sides of the story: USA and USSR... When people begin understand the third side, you'll see things from a whole new level that would be disliked by certain persons.
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  771. Hitler war machine was immediately sabotaged the moment fighting broke out in 1939. Hitler Revolution - Richard Tedor
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  772.  @nathanielcava4128  Herd mentality.
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  773. If you think $20/hour minimum wage is bad, just wait until they raise minimum wage to $25/hour, Lol.
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  774. Most women say that they want “equality” and “sharing fairly”, but in reality, they want a strong man to lead the way. That is the natural order of things! For your little child, she could easily find another better status man who can provide more for her and her toddler, while not having you to care anyways. Because you’re a man and you cannot nurture or be tender to a small child like a mother can.
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  775.  @eqsul729  Thanks for sharing your story. Good on you for persisting and taking on challenges. I think other folks out there are frustrated that they end up stagnant in their adult life after going through a four year college degree or graduate school. We as human beings are not machines. We’re living beings capable of doing a lot more than our ego could imagine. I’ve seen some folks live into their 50s with absolute regret for not “accomplishing more” in their younger and middle aged years.
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  776.  @jakel2837  He befriended some loyal customers over the years and wanted to continue to provide a high quality standard of HVAC control service to those customers. He was lucky that the vultures only bleed the company for several years before moving on. These days, private equity firms go all out in destroying a corporation after take over.
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  777. Boeing is going down the same path as GM, Ford and Chrysler did in the 1970s. Boeing replaced all of its engineers from leadership with bean counters who know nothing about aerospace.
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  778. This video reminds me of the video game, “Hearts of Iron III.” Amazing how this plays out in real life! We certainly live in interesting times!
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  779. Degree in criminal justice? Biotechnology degrees? Finance job? And this documentary was made 15 years ago? Wow, not much has changed! It really strikes me how state/private college or only high school GED graduates are mostly struggling, while community college folks are mostly doing alright at that time period.
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  780. The problem is not "college is expensive." It is young people without any guidance (or hardly doing any personal research) making awful post-secondary and career choices that are not in alignment with reality! College can mean anything in the U.S! Four year college, graduate school or an associate program at community college. Education must be based on what the national/state economy needs! We certainly don't need any more people with molecular biology degrees!
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  781. 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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  782. Many fields are over saturated, but people still keep going into them. For example, 25 years ago, biology degrees in the USA were already over saturated, yet folks still go for bachelor of biology degrees in droves. Your better off doing something “biology related” at community college or doing a combined community college and state college pathway to save time, money and increase your employment prospects.
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  783.  @Joker-no1uh  Source: "The German Genius - Europe's Third Renaissance, The Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century" by Peter Watson & Erich Fromm
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  784.  @Azaleahsney  CS is part of the creative arts and services sector. You don’t need that many people doing CS for programming, coding, or website design. We already have AI replacing many programming jobs. 15 years ago, only a handful of crack professionals did CS and made good money. Now that everyone wants to get into CS, there’s more competition for fewer jobs. That’s why they’re asking for x amount of years of experience, additional certificates, or maybe you’re willing to work for free in order to get the experience. That’s just my friends experience with hiring in CS, up here in Canada. I would bet it’s a similar situation in the USA.
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  785. Putin invasion of Ukraine has nothing to do with absorbing more people into the Russian Federation. The only real objective that Putin has accomplished is destroying Ukraine agriculture, which exports hundreds of millions of tons of wheat to Africa and the Middle East.
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  786. You should take a look at the robots that Boston Dynamics has already developed… Pretty soon, we’ll have AI replace many high skill white collar jobs and robots will replace many low skilled service collar jobs. “Middle skillsets” are the way to go!
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  787. Good to see manufacturing jobs come back to the USA. All we need to do now is stop lying to 18 year olds that they must go to a four year college and then graduate school. More youngsters ought to consider community/city colleges, apprenticeships, and old school lifestyles.
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  788.  @ulikemyname6744  Yes, indeed.
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  789.  @starventure  Go check the stats and talk to ordinary people. Anyone who is able to move to NYC has already done so, as car centric suburbia falls apart.
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  790.  @BlackPill-pu4vi  Liberalism is the moral rot behind the decline of British Leyland cars. You have management who don’t know anything about mechanical engineering or high quality industrial engineering. The workers are poorly trained and in this video are shown using sloppy tools. Japan adopted the Edward Deming method and Germany focused on top quality craftsmanship. Both countries beat the UK and US in quality car production in the 1980s and even today.
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  791. Thank you for sharing your story!
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  792. That was an amazing documentary! Thank you posting! Mike Rowe of dirty jobs brought me here!
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  793. Wow, that’s an awesome video! Loved the tear down of that eco tech engine. GM is such a strange company. Some of their cars are great, others are downright terrible. You really have to know your technical stuff when buying from a grey zone car company.
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  794. Fluorescent and Neon lights invented by Nikola Tesla were more luminous, and consumed less electricity than GE incandescent light bulbs designed by Edison staff.
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  795.  @JoeyBlogs007  Because of the decline in technical-creative skillsets across America.
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  796. Journeyman plumber here. Most trade employers will not hire college graduates because they lack the “hands on” ability to do an apprenticeship. A skilled trade isn’t something that anyone can go in and do. You need to have prior “experience” or else you become a burden on the entire team.
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  797.  @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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  798.  @lolnyanterts  Residential homes like mansions, town home, duplex, row house etc. only require a furnace and an basic AC unit. Most residential homes are "cookie cutter", so a lot of people don't see the significance of HVAC. For commercial, institutional, and high rise condos (not rental apartments); property owners will always go with "HVAC Controls" (Building Automation Systems) with HVAC sub-categories including DDC (Direct Digital Controls) and old Pneumatic HVAC Systems. You won't find any residential furnaces or AC units in these larger properties because of the need for cost savings and the need for energy efficiency. That is why in larger buildings, you have centralized Air Handling Units in Mechanical Rooms instead of a furnace connected to one thermostat. Misconceptions of HVAC: https://www.automatedbuildings.com/news/feb20/articles/basisolutions/200123030808basisolutions.html
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  799.  @lolnyanterts  On a final note, no property owner cares about maintenance these days, so they'll run their commercial HVAC equipment into the ground after a few years. Property Owners also believe that throwing money into green roofs, PV cells, grey water toilets etc. is wonderful, but when it comes to hiring technical people for maintenance work; they suddenly got no money. So, all those "green" things become worthless at the end of the day.
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  800.  user-yl7mr3ck5l  What do you mean by bodied? I was just talking truth of the matter. I already know of the channel "Not Just Bikes" and several other channels that hate on Dubai.
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  801.  @ScooterinAB  At the local level you will see many people convert a single family home into a triplex without notifying city planners or the city itself for a permit. That is how desperate the situation can be or just that nobody cares about enforcing old laws that no longer applies. A good example are recent court battles between Houston residents and the City Council of Houston over "deed restrictions" that nobody cares about.
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  802.  @andrewdobson2535  Desperate people do desperate things. Nobody is convincing council members of zoning reforms except Strong Towns. Many home owners have already converted single family unit homes into rental triplex properties without city approval.
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  803.  @unconventionalideas5683  Yeah, I know that. Apartments use Building Automation Systems (BAS) to control, adjust and monitor the HVAC. You've got radiators, electric furnaces, actuators, union valves, air handlers, thermometers etc. etc. The experienced professionals for HVAC controls is continuously decreasing even though everyone wants to live in high rise condos and go to high density shopping malls.
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  804.  @angelmartin7310  This old world shall make way for our new NS world.
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  805. That’s what happens when the most callous and predatory professionals get elected into office. Money gets stuffed into the pockets of big business and lawyers while ordinary people who toil everyday at difficult jobs are left to bite the dust.
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  806. Reminds me of the decline of the American automotive industry. When federal regulators and accountants replaced engineers in management. When the blue collar workforce started hiring high school dropouts rather than technical apprentices. The reputation and quality of American cars went downhill.
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  807.  @newfablesam  Exactly! Well said!
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  808.  @Jeremyho439  Unions are the reason why construction plumbers and electricians have proper training, benefits and a pension at the end of their career.
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  809. I’m constantly amazed at how most American military aircraft used today and in recent conflicts all originate from the 1940s, 50s and 60s design/build concepts. Not much has really changed since then…
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  810.  @johnnotrealname8168  Okay, fine with me. You can suffer the consequences later on when a bunch of countries decide to economically "strangle you" and you yourself will will be forced to watch your child, parent, or best friend die from illness because all our products are made somewhere else.
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  811. Interesting how Donald Trump is blamed for the loss of many jobs. I saw another video about how Trump trade tariffs helped many steel and aluminum workers get their jobs back. As well as help create hundreds more new jobs. Interesting how things are going in this country…
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  812.  @AmeriGlobal  Two sides of the same coin.
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  813. Callous and predatory are the words you were looking for in your comment. Very common among corporate lawyers and big businessmen.
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  814. Canada as a nation; America has no need for. Canada as a 51st state would be very beneficial to America.
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  815.  @SantaValerino  Justin Trudeau announced a few years ago that Canada has no national identity and is the first post-national state. Lol Trump heard what Trudeau said loud and clear. Now Trump is going to take over Canada.
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  816. Have you tried dropping your resume off (in person) to various company/contractor offices? Most managers in the trades don’t check their emails and will only hire you based on connections and/or a particular expertise that’s in high demand. That’s how I got into the skilled trades. I was working as a BAS technician and wanted to become an electrician. So I started applying in person and eventually got accepted as an apprentice electrician doing fire alarms for high rise buildings.
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  817.  @foeyloozer6299  Canada is a good example of legal and illegal immigration going out of government control and into corporate control in recent years. Wages have decreased thanks to record high immigration and there also isn’t enough housing anymore for locals and immigrants alike.
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  818. Homelessness is the result of overtly strict zoning codes and building code regulations that make new construction very expensive. Thus, out of reach for many people. If we were to return back to pre-WW2 America with NO zoning codes, then we can easily end this homeless problem by allowing individuals to pursue a traditional vocation and allow them to build their own homes or businesses.
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  819.  @universenerdd  For a lot of these poor people who are struggling with housing, yes it is. If not, then to greatly reduce zoning codes.
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  820. Instead of catching fish in the seas and ocean, why not just build and maintain fish farms? I mean, we don’t hunt bison anymore to get red meat. We just raise pigs and cows on a farm or ranch. Other countries like China have done that (aquatic fish farms) and it’s going very well.
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  821.  @hya2in8  Urban drains and sewages cannot handle excess rain water; you need large and many public parks to do that.
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  822. What??! Is that for real?
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  823.  @eddieafterburner  Don't judge a book by its cover. Read and study the details.
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  824. It’s unhinged for Canada to be taking in that many immigrants, international students and temporary foreign workers when there is nothing here. Our biggest employers are minimum wage restaurants, universities, and IT consulting in big cities. Aside from that, there isn’t anything else and majority go to the US for work.
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  825.  @Novusod  Type up "San Francisco 1940" or "New York City World Fair 1939" or "Detroit 1950s". Lol
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  826.  @night6724  Victorian people from the 1890s were smarter, more experienced, had more social capital and had a higher average IQ than people of 2024. And that is despite all our wireless technology (tablets, computers etc.) that should make people smarter, but its not. More people are getting dumbed down.
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  827.  @night6724  Seems like someone been drinking the Kool-Aid. None of America founding fathers died at 50 and threw raw sewage out the window. Thomas Jefferson hated cities and preferred rural areas. George Washington lived a long and healthy life, as did Benjamin Franklin. America created Euclidean zoning (car dependent suburbia) to address issues with heavy pollution in big industrial cities. But that created tremendous social isolation for many. That does not mean streetcars or subway trains from back then are inherently bad or technologically inferior. Just look at how much money Americans spend visiting European cities with all its old streetcar networks and mixed use buildings.
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  828. @highlorddarkstar  wow, thank you! I’m gonna check that channel out! God bless!
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  829. @ajkandy  I’ll be sure to check them out! Thank you!
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  830. @bobtaylor170  Thank you for telling me! I’ll go and check their website! I’m not an architect or artist myself. I work as an electrician, but I’m always amazed by the older styles of work that previous generations built.
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  831.  @CharlesKruger1942  With fewer people going to university, more will focus on apprenticeships, community colleges and small business operations.
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  832. There a lot of older guys out there who won’t teach a younger apprentice anything because they think it’ll bring them “job security”, when in reality, it won’t. You’re just dragging the whole company down, slugging things down and making the overall job worse on your part.
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  833. I had that experience, and let me tell you, I’d quit after several months or a year and move on to a new job. No point in wasting your time with idiots who “don’t teach so they can have job security” type of mentality bullshit. There are many other good opportunities out there for you to learn new things. I found that small shop is a great way to go, because you’re required to learn and do as much as possible.
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  834. “Rebadging” of cars is nothing new. Ford started using Nissan, and Toyota combustion engines for their pickup trucks in the 1970s because Ford could not build their own efficient pickup truck engine. Also, I see a lot of similarities between 2022 Chevy Malibu and 2022 Honda Civics as well. A lot of this has to do with decades of globalization.
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  835. Interesting video. I find it fascinating how back in the 1950s and 60s, when plastic products were beginning to rise in popularity. The USA had the choice of making biodegradable plastics from algae or petroleum based plastics. It’s only right now that we’re going back to what was done right before in the past.
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  836. @ What’s interesting are all the independent polls taken across Canada for all Canadians of various socioeconomic backgrounds. Older Canadians refuse to join the US no matter what happens. For young and middle aged Canadians, if America offered to convert their income/assets to USD at a 1:1 ratio, they’d happily join America.
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  837. It’s all about status symbols and reputation.
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  838. Canada has a lot of natural resources up for the taking. Good thing Trudeau got rid of Canada as a nation. Now it’s a big land mass that’s up for grabs.
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  839.  @robertfigueroa5697  Trump may not care about Canada, but neither does Canada political leadership. Lol Justin Trudeau announced a few years ago that Canada is the first post-national state that’s open for grabs. Lol
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  840. I think German prophet Alois Irimaier has already answered your question.
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  841. Wow, that is amazing! Always strikes me as to how time flies so fast! This was the 1960s, which is not that far off. Now in 2024, all we see are rusted up dockyards, declining technical-creative skillsets all over America, and our industrial sector mostly exported to Asia. All to save 5 dollars… What a tragedy.
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  842. @ You just repeated what I mentioned. American decline…
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  843.  @Worldwar1944  America is a rotting empire. Corporate greed and skillset decline is only part of the problem.
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  844. Sorry to hear that about your husband. Another issue is the lack of unity among ordinary people. Our society is way too individualistic these days to unite over anything. If you got family and a close knit community to help out, then god bless you!
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  845. I feel really sorry for all the Zoomers that got their brains scrambled up by the unrealistic demands of their parents, peers, school teachers etc. to go to a four year college and then graduate school. Most of these Zoomers have high student loan debt and going into an economy that is really soft.
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  846. Nobody wants to see Russians and Ukrainians get killed or maimed in this meaningless conflict. What most people like myself are against is the profiteering of bankers, manufacturers, and munition salesmen who benefit handsomely from this war! Also, given the demographic blight of all of Europe. This war is only going to further weaken both sides of the euro population, which is by NWO design!
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  847. American steel companies are a byproduct of the American empire. As the American empire crumbles and rots away; so will once important institutions, corporations and big businesses. It’s only a matter of time before USS goes under.
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  848.  @alejandromaldonado6159  I don’t really think a study is necessary. Just look at all the parents who force their child to do a centralized examination into college and graduate schools here in America. From the end of WW2 till recently, if you didn’t get a bachelor degree at college, you were considered a nobody by most people.
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  849. The reason why Germany and Japan outperform America on so many metrics is because the managerial class is different (in a positive manner) and far superior than the managerial class found in America. Dr. Edward Deming - Father of Quality Production
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  850.  @chamboyette853  Our entire automotive industry has become unreliable, because we have become over reliant on road based vehicles. If all interstate freeways were to shut down right now, New York City would starve to death because the pre-ww2 cities rely mostly on trucks to deliver food and other necessities these days. Our train network is also being prioritized in the wrong ways. Yes, New York has big rail networks, but most of that is used for sending city garbage into states like South Carolina.
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  851.  @IcelanderUSer  NYC and America itself had a different and more effective system back in 1940. It's not my fault you don't do your own research and are jealous of my kaleidoscopic range of knowledge, Lol.
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  852. I read online that GM gets a few German engine companies like Opel to design a lot of their automotive engines these days.
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  853. German prophet, Alois Irimaier made some very telling prophecies in the 1950s, that is quite amazing. You should check him out. The Russian army will try to smash into the French lowlands, but will get beaten back due to autonomous drones sent in by America. China will use their conventional military to invade the US, but it too, will also get beaten back.
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  854. Most unions and contractors won’t even take on an older guy such as you for work. You no longer have the physical strength or mental ability to tackle such trade work anymore. The best you’d do is minimum wage as a unskilled installer.
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  855.  @Homeinmygardenwithmydog  Try non-union buddy, your odds are better there than union for someone that old.
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  856.  @Homeinmygardenwithmydog  I wasn't referring to you, Lol. Just throwing that out there for anyone who wanted to know based on what I've seen/experienced while on the job site. I'm around the same the age as you are; working as a master plumber and managing a few journeyman plumbers and apprentices.
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  857. Wow! That must’ve been quite the experience selling Leyland cars back in the late 70s! Thank you for sharing your story!
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  858. Thanks for sharing this documentary. Odd that we got German commentators instead of Americans. Oh well… As for the Cultural Revolution, I’ve asked several Chinese friends about that event. Their grandparents and great grandparents told them that “officially” the Cultural Revolution happened from 1966-76. But in reality, most people went about their everyday life. Not interested in doing anything political or harm to others. It was only from 1970-72 that they were required to “get very political.” But at the end of the day, the Cultural Revolution only affected people who lived in big cities. China was mostly small towns and farming villages back then. One thing that was terrifying was the 1960-61 Great Leap Forward famine. That disaster killed 20 million civilians (from what my Chinese friends have told me), but a lot of families and folks resorted to lying about their food production or fleeing to another region of China less affected (i.e.: Fukien) in order to save themselves. Crazy times, but absolute respect to the Chinese men/women who endured such hardships!!
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  859. I don’t know what these activists are thinking. 95% of Ontario pork and pork related products are sold to Asia, mostly China. Beef consumption across Canada/USA has declined by 30% over the last 20 years. If they really cared about those pigs and other farm animals, they would’ve agreed with traditional policies of high tariffs, export restrictions, and limited industrial capacity in some areas… but that’s none of my business!
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  860. Wow! What a story! Thanks for sharing! Gary, Indiana sounds like a mushroom city. As fast as the small city appeared on the map as a prosperous place to work/live, it also declined very quickly and fell off the map as a prosperous place to be in. I honestly think the state of Indiana, U.S federal government, and U.S Steel could've saved Gary from blight... Putting up high tariffs on steel imports, improving public education, building a community college to train a new generation of workers, and maintaining their public transit/infrastructure systems (streetcars) would've been much better than simply letting this once financially productive city rot away.
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  861.  @spacetoast7783  It's about serving the well being of the general public and cutting back on profit margins of big business executives. Read my previous comment before making a fool of yourself with a repetitive response.
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  862.  @spacetoast7783  The answer your looking for is already out there! Human beings have been building cities for thousands of years! Canada/USA is simply making the exact same mistakes again because most have failed to learn. Strong Towns Recommendations: - A Bottom Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity by Charles L. Marohn - Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for A Strong Town by Charles L. Marohn
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  863.  @spacetoast7783  Since you don't read anything, I leave you to your intellectual misery.
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  864. England has become such a joke these days.
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  865. The biggest problems are education and property owners not prioritizing their buildings properly. Most property owners are willing to spend lots of $$$ for green products, but are unwilling to spend $$$ for the technical- operational people (BAS/DDC techs) who can actually do more work with energy efficiency and cost savings than simply installing a bunch of green products (which has a very high cost for maintenance). Jay Santos (Principal at Facility Dynamics Engineering) did a lecture at Laney College about this nation wide issue for energy efficiency, and it’s not technological; it’s a skilled labor problem.
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  866. Good video! But this infrastructure bill won’t solve any of the major problems faced by the average American. I recommend Strong Towns.
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  867. That’s an awesome story! Thank you for sharing!
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  868. Really? Is that actually happening? I know of electricians who are non-union and are able to find work in small shop. These are for both apprentice and journeymen electricians. For medium/big sized companies, I know they’ll put you into a union right away in order for you to start much needed new build condo work.
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  869. That "1%" is being propped up by car dependent suburbia. With the decline of suburbs all over America, they'll lose power eventually.
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  870. This is a very interesting video in regards to American cars of the 1980s. It seems to me that most American cars in the 1980s were sluggish and bad quality, just like their 1970s counterparts. However, what makes American cars very “grey zoned” is when you mentioned Buick Regal sedans competing with Porsche/Lambo muscle cars, Chevy sedans purchased en mass by taxi cab companies, and no mention of bad quality of American pickup trucks…
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  871. Fascinating! I’ve had that similar experience driving American cars too. My Saturn LS200 sedan was very economical for driving highways, but consumed a lot of gas driving on local roadways.
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  872. I finished an associate degree in electromechanical engineering technology - specializing in automation and controls. Before graduation, I applied to 20 different companies (small, medium and large), got a dozen responses for an interview, and then after two weeks of scheduled interviews; 7 of the companies that interviewed me offered me a full time job as an engineering technician. I didn’t think much of it at that time, but later on realized that the reason why multiple, different contractors were willing to take me on (even without work experience) is because of severe labor shortages in certain technical fields and many managers were desperate to hire anyone with some background in automation/controls. I see most of my friends having done a degree in a field that is highly competitive or over saturated or is in the process of being offshored and even replaced by AI. I believe that is where the main problem lies.
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  873.  @pin65371  America suburbia tries to incorporate both rural and urban all into once place and it fails to do both. Most Americans don’t even have a proper grasp of what the federals classify as urban and rural. A small muddy road leading into a wooded area is considered rural, but anything with asphalt paving, stop signs, traffic lights etc. is considered urban by the federals.
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  874.  @garyjackson3531  America became a highly federalized empire after the Civil War. The northern states handed over every Republic to the Federals in Washington DC. We’ve been an empire since then, not a republic.
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  875.  @garyjackson3531  That’s great we’re seeing more “small town” developments. Just don’t go asking the Federal government for money when the maintenance bills come due in 15 years.
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  876.  @sutherlacd27  Sources?
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  877.  @sutherlacd27  Can you provide a link (or a book or a technical article) instead of a comment claiming this and that?
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  878.  @kordellswoffer1520  Lol, yeah good luck finding technicians and mechanics when nobody wants to sign up in the U.S military. Even they (American military) admit that they're having too much trouble finding new recruits. Lol
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  879.  @kordellswoffer1520  And you have nothing to back up your claims.
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  880.  @kordellswoffer1520  No, you're making yourself look like a fool.
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  881.  @RahimmacDonald  The US military is in decline thanks to fewer young Americans willing to support and participate in the military. Why join the military anymore? To defend what? American sovereignty? We can't even defend our border and we go about fighting mercenary wars.
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  882. @ Lol, the excuses you make for the so called “professionals” is laughable.
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  883.  @Redzwan  Oh really? How did America go from the architecture of Neo-classical facades and Art Deco designs to the architecture of parking lots? You really think you can lie to me about wanting to spend time hanging around an empty parking lot?
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  884.  @Redzwan  How much do they pay an astroturfer like you?
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  885. @ If you want to enjoy more nature, then go live on a farm or a log cabin in the wilderness. If you want to live in a big metropolis like New York, you’d better have the high income to pay for a location like Central Park. Otherwise, you can enjoy small town life.
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  886. @ Why are you asking me? I’m not a resident of New York City. Every society has its own needs and wants. I’m simply expressing how the majority of Americans feel and think of their urban areas.
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  887. @ Most Americans cannot afford to live in Manhattan or downtown Chicago. You folks tend to confuse medium density streetcar suburbs, farm land, and small towns with very low density car dependent suburban sprawl. As time goes on, suburbia is becoming less and less common in the states.
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  888. @ Utrecht is in the Netherlands, not America. The Netherlands is a tiny country and not a flop house for the world problems.
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  889. @ Europe came up the idea of large city gardens, green houses and other beautiful architectural aesthetics to make their cities lively, unique and fabulous. Unfortunately right now, Europe political and financial class of people no longer relate with the ordinary European citizen. They’re as short sighted as the political class here in America.
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  890.  @ariellev9185  XD
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  891.  @IKVKronosOne  The “Nobody wants to work” card is simply an excuse for greater numbers of corporate immigration.
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  892.  @tesladrew2608  A “middle skill set” is a field of study that requires both high levels of theoretical proficiency and a good amount of hands on experience. For example, an elevator technician is a “middle skillset” profession. You start as a pre-apprentice doing a certificate program. Then you look for someone to sponsor you (apprenticeship) for x amount of years as an apprentice (based on regulations). While you are working hands on at the job site gaining experience; you go back to school to study theory for x amount of hours after you finished x amount of hours on the job site. Once you become a “journeyman” elevator technician, you continue working full time but you’re also learning new techniques of the trade and depending on what sector you (later on) get into; you might have to be re-trained to different or new standards/regulations that is demanded upon you. Continuous learning and developing all throughout your career.
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  893. These types of deliveries only work for large scale volumes. Which is why only certain fast food restaurants offered such services.
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  894.  @middleagebrotips3454  No, I was referring to Domino’s Pizza of the 1990s. Domino’s Pizza got rid of their delivery driver system, not because of financial problems but their own drivers were running people over and causing crashes.
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  895.  @middleagebrotips3454  Domino’s Pizza had their own drivers and delivery system that worked very well before such apps (back in the 1990s).
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  896. 98% of plastic waste that ends up in our oceans comes from ONLY ten major rivers located in Asia and Africa. Countries like the United States have the facilities, skilled labor and regulations that prevent such plastics dumping.
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  897. 11:46 and 12:02 are my favourites!!! Neo classical, Victorian and Art Deco combined into high rise buildings!! Beautiful and futuristic!! Thank you for this video!!
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  898. @ Well said! Amen! Before WW2, it was normal to do an apprenticeship or to take remedial courses at a city college to further your career as an adult. Since the 1950s, we’ve had this idea that every able bodied person needs to go to a four year college and then graduate school in order to succeed in life. Realistically, only 20% of young people should be going to a four year college while the other 80% should be working in some other vocation.
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  899.  @OptimalOwl  Well, the reason why so many parents forced their children into doing college is because before ww2, less than 5% of Americans had college degrees. So if you had a college degree, you were all set and making good money as a white collar professional back then. We were already at maximum capacity for college graduates by the 1970s and decided to make it worse until recently.
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  900.  @OptimalOwl  Signalling theory of education? Never heard of that term before. I’m going to look into that.
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  901.  @OptimalOwl  Oh my god. Please don’t tell me that a $90k student loan for a degree in gender studies or sociology is worth it for a minimum wage job… It’s not even about going all in for STEM either. There are so many biology and chemistry college graduates who can’t find any sort of employment after they finish. So what’s the point of wasting all that time for?
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  902.  @OptimalOwl  As time progresses, more and more employers are weighing their interviews less and less on what degree you have. Instead, they’re going for a skills based interview where the applicant is tested on their expertise and knowledge of their given degree. Most colleges are no longer focusing on merit, and are simply businesses trying to fulfill student recruitment quotas. You’d be amazed by the amount of rampant cheating, plagiarism, and professors/instructors training a blind eye to sloppy work at colleges these days. So no, just because you have a degree does not make you “smarter” than someone with no degree or a lower degree such as an Associate’s.
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  903. The Japanese thank an American industrial engineer named Dr. Edward Deming for teaching them how to produce in high quality.
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  904. Very sad and heart breaking to see THAT many addicts in Afghanistan!
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  905.  @UrielX1212  I blame car dependent suburbia.
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  906. I find it amazing how Japanese and German cars have strong engines; meaning you can run the engine to 60k miles without an oil change before the engine is destroyed. Meanwhile for GM cars, you start experiencing terrible engine knocking when you don’t do proper oil changes every 3k miles. However, GM has a built in oil analysis indicator (computer system) that gives relatively accurate readings for the engine oil. I find the contrasts and extremes to be absolutely wild!
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  907. The modernist plan uses reinforced concrete and PVC materials. None of those materials can last more than 100 years and is not environmentally friendly to produce and dispose of.
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  908. The decline of men also means the decline of women as well; whether women know it or not.
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  909.  @Vanderearden  America is a giant with feet made out of clay.
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  910.  @eksbocks9438  We live in a society run by sociopaths. Sociopaths will look at evil actions and think it’s very fun to partake in it.
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  911. Because you German Saxons and English Saxons became so “alienated from each other” that you guys basically forgot your ancestry. If you want to destroy a people, deny them their history.
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  912.  @RjbigIamMe  Big unions only work well in the top 20 metropolitan areas. States with smaller cities and less people cannot financially support a union.
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  913.  @jpres3434  You Americans are heading down the same path of decline as Canada. Canada is simply a decade earlier than America. Aside from nature trails in Canada, everything is 10x more expensive when compared to the USA.
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  914.  @wendybricht2577  I don't feel sorry one bit for you older folks trying to skimp by month to month with a few hundred dollars. 3/4 of NIMBY's at council meetings are elderly people demanding less housing, less car traffic, less public transit, and less people who are accepted into their area. If you're old and poor, you should not be living by yourself in a big McMansion home out in car dependent suburbia. More municipalities want to re-zone and allow more mixed use development (including multifamily units, cottage courts or residential hotels) but are struck down by retirees who have the time to protest all the time.
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  915.  @rwalkenhorst  Yes, but we allowed that to happen. We went from a nation of producers to a nation of consumers. That is why Nixon dropped the gold standard in 1972 because too much gold was leaving the United States. Since then, the U.S Dollar has been put on the debt standard and is nothing more than debt backed by nothing. Before the 1970s, we used our savings and investments to acquire things. Now, its just credit cards and loads of debt.
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  916.  @Maryland_Kulak  Small towns?
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  917. 100% agree with you. Before the 2000s, America had a dynamic and robust economy with plenty of jobs in manufacturing, industrial applications, education, residential construction, commercial services, institutions, agriculture, fishing etc. etc. 2024 onwards, most of these jobs have vanished (offshored) and ever increasing regulations make doing work almost impossible.
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  918.  @WillieFungo  What are you talking about??! Sweden has regulated itself out of producing anything from a dirty industry!! In fact, the entire EU has done just that with their new set of regulatory restrictions! At this point, only China can produce high volumes are good quality steel.
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  919.  @WillieFungo  Because the federal government has over regulated and over taxed American manufacturing, steel mills, domestic textile production etc. out of existence. What else are these American students supposed to do, other than go into computer science, electrical engineering, and research into AI? Get a degree in gender studies? Lol
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  920.  @WillieFungo  Sweden cannot keep 20th century heavy industries because they do not have the demographics. Sweden is in the same situation as America. Collapsing birth rates and old people retiring everywhere. Your argument is off topic and meaningless.
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  921. XD That’s a good one!
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  922. Don’t blame yourself. These economic problems were all in the making before you and I were even born into this world. In the mean time, make sure to develop positive relationships with any family, relatives, friends and former classmates you have. As America further declines, I can imagine the future being a bunch of “closed economies” where communities help one another out. Kind of like Japan in the 1700s. My advice would be to try and build up a crew while you still can. With a crew, you guys can help one another out regardless of whether you guys have blue collar or white collar credentials.
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  923. @ You’re welcome!
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  924. It’s stupidity for parents to tell their child to take on debt to pay for an undergraduate degree in an over saturated white collar labor pool. Blue collar trades are is the grey zone. Some are great fields but others are terrible.
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  925.  @sarahann530  Just use history as an example. When great empires fall, people resort to rationing their resources, forming close knit communities, building walls/fences in their local area, etc. That’s exactly what we are seeing here in a declining America. City downtowns are exclusive only for the wealthy; while poor people are left to figure stuff out in the suburban/rural places.
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  926.  @sarahann530  Take a look at the American city of Baltimore. The wealthy gather in the affluent downtown core, while the poor are left in suburbs that are rotting away. It used to be that rural, suburban and urban were pretty well balanced in America. Now, you have a return to the old concept of: if your inside the castle, you well connected, well guarded and safe. If your outside the castle, your left to fend off any attacks by yourself.
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  927.  @sarahann530  Seems like you don’t live in America. After WW2, our public policy was “rich people in the countryside and poor people in the cities” which was a disaster for many reasons. As America social support systems erode, we see rich people going back to cities and poor people surrounding the cities. The only difference is that we’re leaving poor in car dependent suburbs that have a very, very high financial burn.
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  928.  @sarahann530  What are you even asking? America doesn’t have farmers anymore. We replaced our farmers in the 1970s/80s with big agricultural (conglomerate) businessmen. The motto became “get big or get out of farming.” The majority of American farmers were forced into bankruptcy thanks to the agricultural policies of Nixon, Carter and Reagan. So to answer your “farmer subsidy” question, it’s a no. American Farmers don’t get any subsidies.
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  929.  @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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  930.  @sarahann530  “Which cities have poor suburbs ?” -Outside of Memphis, Tennessee you’ll find many very poor suburbs. -Go to every city in Louisiana (Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Layfayette etc.) and you’ll find many poor suburbs. -Outside of Baltimore, Maryland downtown hub. All the suburban neighbourhoods of Baltimore are run down and poor. -Texas is a good example of recent suburban poverty found outside the inner rings of Houston, Dallas, San Antonio etc. The list goes on, but if you want to learn more, I recommend Charles Marohn of Strong Towns.
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  931.  @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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  932.  @sarahann530  Oh, it’s going to get worse before it gets any better. Lol, yeah sure, I’m totally homeless. XD
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  933.  @sarahann530  Okay, if that’s what you want to assume.
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  934. Thank you for making this video! As tragic as it is, am I the only one who finds the sinking of this ship (TSMS Lakonia) to be similar in terms of numerology with the sinking of the HMS Laconia from WW2?
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