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  • @EconomicsExplained
    @EconomicsExplained  12 днів тому +16

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  • @saltyBANDIT
    @saltyBANDIT 13 днів тому +248

    Lastly, let’s put shipping containers on the global economic leader board.

    • @brisbanebill
      @brisbanebill 11 днів тому +5

      Yes, he missed out how the shipping container made posts so efficient and that the door to door delivery, truck, ship and truck again, massively dropped the price of moving good around the world.

    • @tibettenballs4962
      @tibettenballs4962 7 днів тому

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    • @tibettenballs4962
      @tibettenballs4962 7 днів тому

      @@brisbanebillhu

  • @gunterdapenguin5896
    @gunterdapenguin5896 13 днів тому +1111

    Did I miss the part where he explained why less globalization is good or did he just talk about shipping and supply chains the entire video?

    • @pepperonish
      @pepperonish 13 днів тому +256

      The title of the video is probably gonna change in a few hours

    • @raptokvortex
      @raptokvortex 13 днів тому +317

      He constantly does this, and it's annoying as heck. He never gets to the point of the video and just side tracks the whole time. It's typical investment banker bait and switch.

    • @MasterTheSwag
      @MasterTheSwag 13 днів тому +73

      He says it in the last two minutes.

    • @jlspracher
      @jlspracher 13 днів тому +28

      14 minutes in

    • @DaniyaalKhan2000
      @DaniyaalKhan2000 13 днів тому +16

      Yes, what a bait and switch.

  • @bullydungeon9631
    @bullydungeon9631 13 днів тому +266

    Uhhh seamen

  • @adodgygeeza
    @adodgygeeza 13 днів тому +117

    You got close but no cigar on explaining the square cube law. A ships mass will scale pretty much in line with it's cargo capacity. The scaling advantages you get with a bigger ship are that proportionally the loads from waves become smaller and stuff like hull plates don't get proportionally bigger on large ships. Where the square cube law really kicks in is that most of the resistance to the ship going through the water comes from skin friction. Surface area under water is proportional to length squared, carrying capacity to length cubed. Also larger ships are in proportion to their size smoother. Ergo they use much less fuel. As an aside sailing ships didn't use particularly large crews often less than 20, this is why sailors didn't mind being pressed into navy service as they would have a crew of hundreds on a warship and a ship that could be operated by dozens so life was actually quite relaxed.

    • @BackseatGamingJesus
      @BackseatGamingJesus 13 днів тому +8

      One of the biggest factors is crossectional area, so long ships are very efficient.

    • @accountnumber1234567
      @accountnumber1234567 13 днів тому

      Well said; I came here to say the same thing regarding wetted surface area.

    • @modica3466
      @modica3466 13 днів тому +3

      ​@BackseatGamingJesus now add that to the fact that many of the older ships were scrapped and their raw materials were put again on the market. Of course, everyone wants to build larger ships.
      What can happen in the future is we see less of these ships due to a less globalized world, which could also mean we'd have even bigger ships to carry more with less costs.

    • @idioluh5838
      @idioluh5838 13 днів тому +9

      "Didn't mind being press ganged" was a funny part.
      Sure, there was less work to be done on some HMS, compared to a merchant ship. The problem was the payment, which was significantly lower, sometimes orders of magnitude lower. So, with the exception of serving under command of exceptionally effective and lucky commander, who will ensure you'll got compensated for a poor salary with a lot of prize money, serving in a navy was a sure way to poverty.
      So no, most of the times sailors didn't really liked to be press-ganged, unless they already were good-for-nothing drunkards.

    • @michaelimbesi2314
      @michaelimbesi2314 9 днів тому

      Nice job!

  • @Elongated_Muskrat
    @Elongated_Muskrat 13 днів тому +97

    Lowering the costs of transportation is important for cargo or people. Shortening supply chains is NOT anti-globalization.

    • @storminnordman9596
      @storminnordman9596 11 днів тому +1

      The real world, non-dictionary, definition of Globalization is the offshoring of jobs and materials from developed nations to less developed. That’s how globalization has played out over the last ~40 years.

  • @nobodyxx560
    @nobodyxx560 13 днів тому +20

    14:08 I live there! My father lead the construction the shipping cranes in this clip.

    • @dawn_alex
      @dawn_alex 10 днів тому +3

      Small world, huh.

  • @rightwingsafetysquad9872
    @rightwingsafetysquad9872 13 днів тому +208

    Crude oil is absolutely not fungible. For example, American refineries are set up for the type of oil from the middle east (and formerly northern Appalacia). They cannot handle oil from the Dakotas or Canada. All that has to get shipped to refineries in Mexico or SE Asia. So despite North America being net oil exporters, we are still nearly 100% dependent on imported oil.

    • @poulanthrope
      @poulanthrope 13 днів тому +23

      8:30 I was about to say the same thing. Oil has sulfur-content and density properties which affect products of its refinement and what refineries can handle it.

    • @xungnham1388
      @xungnham1388 13 днів тому +60

      While you are sortof right about crude not being completely fungible, the refineries do have some play with the make up of oil they can handle. You should really double check your source on refineries; while many of the ones in the US were originally setup to handle middle east oil, today there's very little oil from the middle east being imported to the US. Crude from Canada and Mexico make up over 70% of the US crude imports, so clearly, they can handle oil from Canada. The whole fight over the Keystone pipeline was so they could transport Canadian crude to US refineries cheaper.

    • @Xazamas
      @Xazamas 13 днів тому +9

      @@xungnham1388 I'm also under the impression that the oil from Middle East mainly goes to Europe or China.

    • @pluto8404
      @pluto8404 13 днів тому +3

      ​@@xungnham1388 ew, Canadian oil 🤢. Have we no morals.

    • @carlosandleon
      @carlosandleon 13 днів тому +3

      The true NFT

  • @analogbunny
    @analogbunny 13 днів тому +88

    I think I had an unrefined and vague intuition about this when I was just a small child. I remember my mum pointing to a spot and saying that's where the old washing machine factory was, near the cardboard box factory. The factories shut down and were moved overseas, and now all the jobs in the area were white collar/office jobs. Because all the jobs in the area were of a certain type, the local economy slumped for everyone but those who already worked in the offices, since most of the new office jobs were filled by people who moved to town for those jobs. Now there's some Mexican city where you can only be a labourer, and the local economy has nowhere for labourers to work - essentially wasting the labour pools of both places.
    If goods can be more cheaply made overseas if the factory or mill is right next to the mine or whatever, then by all means, that makes sense. Sometimes the lower cost of shipping offsets the high cost of labour, but in the case of the city where I grew up, all the local factories were shut down because it didn't want to be the kind of city that had dirty laborers in it regardless of the actual economics. I feel like that attitude is disappearing, and that the cost of shipping and labour aren't so far apart anymore. Obviously, my feelings are nothing compared to solid economic analysis though 👍

    • @mehedi1178
      @mehedi1178 13 днів тому +3

      Inflation and minimum wages making labourers cheaper eh?

    • @analogbunny
      @analogbunny 13 днів тому +6

      @mehedi1178 In The West? Obviously not. I was talking about lower production costs at whatever location the factories are moved to. But impoverished countries do eventually industrialize themselves, so unless the long game is to keep every country poor there will theoretically come a time when cost of labour v cost of shipping won't be so obviously tilted.

    • @ireminmon
      @ireminmon 13 днів тому +3

      This is indeed probably the most important aspect of globalization that the media always manages to ignore.
      Good living standards usually come with well balanced labor markets that provide opportunities to labor with diverse skillsets.
      Globalization can indeed provide manufacturers with the opportunity to specialize production to one location (for example 70% of high performance semiconductor chips are manufactured in Taiwan), but it can also provide employers with the opportunity to adapt to the needs of local labor markets. For example a car parts manufacturing factory might be able to open a new plant in a city 500km away, when the pool of available laborers has been depleted in the primary location.
      A significant hit to globalization might ironically force a significant amount of people to leave their villages, move cities or even countries/continents.

    • @penderyn8794
      @penderyn8794 12 днів тому

      My mam*
      Proper British word for mother

    • @vincentchan9204
      @vincentchan9204 12 днів тому

      I suspect it was the dirty factory and not the dirty labourers that were the main reason why the city didn't want the factories there.

  • @darkjill2007
    @darkjill2007 13 днів тому +11

    That was a top teir ad transition. Linus would be proud.

  • @megaponful
    @megaponful 13 днів тому +69

    I am so early the Evergreen hasn't got stuck in the Suez canal yet.

  • @redstream1237
    @redstream1237 13 днів тому +232

    Just make Gigantic highways in the middle of ocean and connect it to all countries so truck can be used instead of ships

    • @andreaslind6338
      @andreaslind6338 13 днів тому +10

      Yeah, nope, it would take too long and cause too much pollution.

    • @Sam-bp2st
      @Sam-bp2st 13 днів тому +41

      Trucks are less efficient than trains and trains are less efficient than ships

    • @sydn2698
      @sydn2698 13 днів тому +115

      ^ the sarcasm flying over these two’s heads

    • @anime0965
      @anime0965 13 днів тому +28

      Lets call it the Freedom Highwayᵀᴹ. Big freight containers can't be just lumped on a single ship(its so communism), they deserve FREEDOM. With a Ford/GM truck people can freely load/unload their Amazon parcels anytime/anywhere.

    • @johndoh5182
      @johndoh5182 13 днів тому +3

      @@Sam-bp2st Yeah but boats aren't efficient going from the east coast of the US to the West coast or vice versa. Strange thing they need water.

  • @kentroglobalinvestmentllc8921
    @kentroglobalinvestmentllc8921 13 днів тому +7

    “Highly trained … uh…. Seamen…”

  • @MK-rx2fj
    @MK-rx2fj 13 днів тому +21

    Can you make a video talking about the amplification of high-interest rates on developing economies

    • @Homer-OJ-Simpson
      @Homer-OJ-Simpson 13 днів тому +1

      They take out loans, don’t play or have shaky payments, next loan will be higher interest. Rinse and repeat
      Then they go the IMF for help while blaming the IMF for worlds problems. Rinse and repeat

  • @user-ge5ce2rr6p
    @user-ge5ce2rr6p 13 днів тому +57

    Opinion on Georgism or the Land Value Tax which Milton Friedman supported?

    • @LevNikolayevichMyshkin
      @LevNikolayevichMyshkin 13 днів тому +19

      Land value tax has existed for a long time. Taxing only land is stupid for example you can build a large data center on a small patch of land and you will pay very little tax running a company like google but the farmers that supply everyone food will always need hectares of land.

    • @rightwingsafetysquad9872
      @rightwingsafetysquad9872 13 днів тому +3

      Property taxes always get passed to renters. It's difficult to accomplish any productive incentive structures with property taxes.

    • @MeisVlk
      @MeisVlk 13 днів тому +4

      @@LevNikolayevichMyshkin Is your example really a problem? Farmlands far from cities are usually cheap, and i doubt there would be much competition between datacenters and farmers, datacenters don't need much land. Also, you can still have regulations in Georgism, so if a datacenter wants to build something on a very fertile land, where agriculture would make more sense, the government could deny that.

    • @LevNikolayevichMyshkin
      @LevNikolayevichMyshkin 13 днів тому +10

      ​@@MeisVlk If all you tax is land (Georgism) then you will tax google less than a guy growing 50 tonnes of potatoes. It does not matter how cheap farmland is the amount of land that is needed for agriculture is far more than what is needed for a far more profitable business. By taxing land and nothing else you are giving up the tax revenue you would otherwise get from for example google because they can build their data centre pretty much wherever they want and it will never need as much space as a farm.

    • @MeisVlk
      @MeisVlk 13 днів тому +3

      @@LevNikolayevichMyshkin i was thinking that google needs a place where you have infrastructure, security, a lot of people => high land value.
      But i admit it sounds super complex. Where would hairdressers and shops be? They couldn't pay that land value.
      => Would they rise their prices? A beer would cost 200x more in the city than in the area around the city?
      => Then everybody would purchase beer 50km from their workplace/home?
      => But maybe then google would have to pay for places where its workers can buy cheap beer?
      => Google would pay a lot afterall?
      Sorry i am a noob at economics but i really want to understand georgism, it would be awesome if it could work

  • @NardoVogt
    @NardoVogt 5 днів тому +1

    I think not many people understand that the standard 20 and 40 foot containers are by far the most important invention of the last century. Forget nuclear power, the Internet... Having nearly everyone agree that we do shipping now differently than we did for the rest of human history... Its crazy

  • @chubletfletcher1462
    @chubletfletcher1462 13 днів тому +24

    NO!!! WITHOUT GLOBALISATION HOW WILL I CONSOOOOOM!!!!!!

    • @RoBoTNiKaa
      @RoBoTNiKaa 8 днів тому

      Consume 😂

    • @sheeshshoot123
      @sheeshshoot123 7 днів тому

      Just out of curiosity, what device did you type this on?

    • @chubletfletcher1462
      @chubletfletcher1462 6 днів тому

      eerrrrm you hate soceity.. then why are you living in one... checkmate librul@@sheeshshoot123

    • @zazander732
      @zazander732 6 днів тому +1

      -he said as he looked out over his sea of empty soda cans and disposable microwave dinners. "I'm not like other consumers I'm different and special" he said as he went back to his 8th hour being on the internet.

    • @nikkuchiluveri5539
      @nikkuchiluveri5539 5 днів тому

      @@sheeshshoot123A refrigerator

  • @theromanorder
    @theromanorder 13 днів тому +3

    Notes: bigger ships can carry alot more so cheaper in bulk, and are only limited but the initial finance of the constant or the size of the shipyard/docks, or by cannels or water straights.
    But if there is not this large demand then its more efficient to use smaller ships

  • @trusted_tradies5456
    @trusted_tradies5456 12 днів тому +3

    Dude I watch a lot of sh*t on UA-cam, and I’ve never said this before. I REALLY appreciate you.
    Keep up the good work.
    From Byron Bay.

  • @unconventionalideas5683
    @unconventionalideas5683 13 днів тому +9

    I do think that Africa's position is such that it could reasonably export to various South American, Asian and European Countries among others if the infrastructure existed. The problem is that it currently does not, and it is unlikely to for some time.

    • @neolithictransitrevolution427
      @neolithictransitrevolution427 13 днів тому +2

      The issue alongside this is the lack of skilled labour and stability. Right now you have active conflict from Gambia to the Port of Sudan and north to Libya, and very hot spots in Ethiopia (which is one of the more successful stories) and Rwanda (also more successful)- Congo.
      And South Africa, well the issues in the economy there are well known.

    • @Sillimant_
      @Sillimant_ 12 днів тому

      Boils down to Africans can't do it, Europeans don't want it.
      Same reason there isn't a bridge or tunnel connecting Europe and Africa like there is England and France

    • @adamperdue3178
      @adamperdue3178 12 днів тому

      Africa has historically suffered from a dearth of viable port locations (relative in proportion to its coastline)

    • @f.g.9466
      @f.g.9466 11 днів тому

      @@adamperdue3178 a great example for OP to look into is Namibia. Such a long coast line, but the country is pretty inhabited by the coast, everyone lives inland. The coast is all arid sand dunes and deserts and nowhere suitable for a deep water port.

    • @adamperdue3178
      @adamperdue3178 11 днів тому +1

      @@f.g.9466 See I had actually heard (and I could have misremembered or the person telling me was incorrect) that Namibia actually has some of the best waters for ports in all of Africa. Except that the areas where the water is viable for ports, are so sandy that it would be nearly impossible to build out the infrastructure, and so far from inhabited areas that nobody would be able to work there.

  • @sigurdjensen195
    @sigurdjensen195 12 днів тому +3

    Shipping has always been the most efficient mode of transport

    • @infidelheretic923
      @infidelheretic923 12 днів тому +1

      The Ocean is an infinite lane highway that requires zero maintenance.

  • @maxis2k
    @maxis2k 12 днів тому +1

    "...was an indication to businesses and policy makers that this status quo wasn't something that could be relied on." Ha. I think you give them too much credit. After the pandemic, they went right back to thinking endless growth and the status quo would go on indefinitely.

  • @xymaryai8283
    @xymaryai8283 5 днів тому

    i know ships carry an unfathomable amount, but i had no clue they were that efficient, thats crazy that they are much better than the already crazy good rail road with steel on steel

  • @brandonharris5152
    @brandonharris5152 13 днів тому +2

    This channel is fantastic

  • @chcomes
    @chcomes 13 днів тому

    Better video than your latest trend. Thanks!

  • @HillelAlon
    @HillelAlon 12 днів тому

    Thanks

  • @evelynn4273
    @evelynn4273 13 днів тому +1

    Less Globalization being a good thing should actually be common sense.. Unless you're a professional economist with a PhD or a member of the WEF (in which case, you don't want to bite the hand that feeds you).

  • @theromanorder
    @theromanorder 13 днів тому +3

    Can you please do a video on the Mongolian economy and mabey Menton how they helped the soveits in ww2

  • @Binzdogger
    @Binzdogger 13 днів тому +1

    Globalisation only works if the G20 export the same value as they import, otherwise each nation is just paying for imports from the bigger economic powerhouses that can afford to max out its exports reducing the amount of available capital still in the domestic market.
    We are on the cusp of a manufacturing revolution with both AI and 3d printing alongside the software needed not being geolocated therefore massively reducing the need to rely on other nations to supply. It's going to be a case of who can come up with idea X first and then who can do it most efficiently by X means, not really much who has X amount of low cost labour.

  • @evolancer211
    @evolancer211 13 днів тому

    That's my favorite flash drive so far, the Type A/C Sandisk lol

  • @bionicle37
    @bionicle37 12 днів тому +2

    Can we please get a Milei video?

  • @dennissalisbury496
    @dennissalisbury496 13 днів тому

    If you make enough of something you can drive the cost of its production to its commodity index, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. There are thousands of Business School case studies that prove this concept.

  • @gamepredator2910
    @gamepredator2910 6 днів тому

    You know how a characteristic of public goods is that the initial capital investment into producing them would be to high for any private firm to raise, like with rail for instance.
    I wonder if this is what's happening to global shipping. What if in the future global shipping will be akin to rail in many countries today.

  • @JustinJamesJeep
    @JustinJamesJeep 13 днів тому +1

    Please make your videos have chapters tags 🙏🏽

  • @jamesau4296
    @jamesau4296 11 днів тому

    Really cool to see a different trend than aviation which larger jets get less favored

    • @michaelimbesi2314
      @michaelimbesi2314 9 днів тому +1

      Aviation is subject to vastly different market forces. Shipping cares a lot about cost and fuel efficiency. Aviation had only ever been able compete on time-sensitive cargos, so it favors small vehicles making direct trips over more efficient networks that use less fuel and cost less but take longer.

  • @JamielDeAbrew
    @JamielDeAbrew 3 дні тому

    What happens when manufacturing becomes more automated? And labour costs are a smaller percentage of total costs?

  • @EarnestBunbury
    @EarnestBunbury 9 днів тому

    COVID, the Suez Canal Crisis, china‘s pressure on Taiwan… are only some examples why spreading your supply line too thin, can be very damaging in the long run

  • @mcs131313
    @mcs131313 6 днів тому

    TLDR: costs of the boat don’t scale linearly with the cargo capacity. Bigger = cheaper and more fuel efficient.

  • @JamesTenniswood
    @JamesTenniswood 13 днів тому

    You should do one about how shipping containers has changed economies

  • @Brian-the-navigator
    @Brian-the-navigator 13 днів тому

    could a video be done on the trans Siberian railroad and economic affects

  • @sourabhmayekar3354
    @sourabhmayekar3354 13 днів тому

    Nice

  • @nemiloszorka1162
    @nemiloszorka1162 13 днів тому +1

    08:01: He, he... "Sea men"

  • @seneca983
    @seneca983 13 днів тому +4

    I think the history section of this video should've mentioned the invention of the intermodal cargo container.

    • @JonSnow-pj7qz
      @JonSnow-pj7qz 13 днів тому +1

      Yeah, that's arguably a bigger factor than anything other than ww2

  • @souravjaiswal-jr4bj
    @souravjaiswal-jr4bj 13 днів тому +4

    At the 8:01 mark, why did you pause before saying, seamen?

  • @tombannigan7898
    @tombannigan7898 13 днів тому

    Just a video idea after watching the recent one on the EU; Why don't Australia and NZ share a tasman dollar (or NZ takes on our dollar?) There's a few papers on it but they're around 25 years old.

    • @Mark_Bridges
      @Mark_Bridges 12 днів тому

      What would be the benefit to make the transition worthwhile? I'm guessing AU (as the larger economy) doesn't have much incentive to change so NZ would have to adopt the $AU. How would that benefit NZ enough to bother?

  • @user-ig8qn2en8y
    @user-ig8qn2en8y 13 днів тому +2

    I want video about australia ❤❤❤❤

  • @HappyLife.officialus
    @HappyLife.officialus 13 днів тому

    history section of this video should've mentioned container.

  • @Peichen01
    @Peichen01 13 днів тому +5

    Basically NATO is really really alarmed by more competitive economics from Asia

  • @looseycanon
    @looseycanon 13 днів тому

    Uhm, actually, oil is not quite as fungible as stated. You can end up with either sour or sweet oil (if I recall the terms correctly) and it makes a spectrum from one to the other. The problem is, you need to buy oil of certain characteristics in order for refinery to be able to refine it. For this reason, East coast of the US exports crude and imports crude as well, because local refineries mostly can't process the crude they can get continent side. In order to be able to process that oil, they'd need to retool them selves.

    • @neolithictransitrevolution427
      @neolithictransitrevolution427 12 днів тому

      Sweet or sour refers to sulphur, which is one of two characteristics, but you also have API which is the density. Higher density, or heavier, oils tend to produce a higher ratio of heavier petrochemical (more diesel less gasoline). The bigger reason the east coast exports is very light Bakken crudes, whereas the refineries were built for heavier (but not "heavy") Brent oil, so running on Bakken would reduce capacity. It has less to do with Sulphur content.
      Gulf oil refineries on the other hand are built for the heavy sours of South America, and Midwestern for the even heavier, and less evenly distributed in molecular weight, DilBits from Canada.
      Which isn't to say you are wrong just adding some color. The other point to remember is that refineries generally have storage, and can mix several different crudes with more or less API and Sulphur, to approximate what your design crude is like.

  • @joshnixon2370
    @joshnixon2370 13 днів тому

    Calum Raasay did a great video on shipping containers last year that I'd highly recommend as a follow up to this video.

  • @abirque
    @abirque 13 днів тому +12

    Bro, slow down😂😂😂

    • @10xstkf
      @10xstkf 5 днів тому

      😂😂😂.

  • @barrybrand2970
    @barrybrand2970 13 днів тому

    Couldnt agree more.

  • @TheYellowKing779
    @TheYellowKing779 13 днів тому

    Interesting

  • @S.G.W.Verbeek
    @S.G.W.Verbeek 13 днів тому +1

    5:44 what is the name of left company. The VOC is dutch. I presume the left one is England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @jakedavidheilemann1208
    @jakedavidheilemann1208 13 днів тому

    I love how all the USBs go through shenzhen

  • @acctsys
    @acctsys 10 днів тому

    Jones Law ruined US shipping

  • @johnnywilliams8733
    @johnnywilliams8733 11 днів тому

    Our whole planet's gone, Bazaar
    Silk roads on the seas
    There's no such thing as far
    But for stars and galaxies
    Villian passing vendors
    Like ships in the night
    They can still remember
    Exactly what it was like
    Caravans of camels
    Laden with great treasure
    Silent spiritual vandles
    and theives without measure
    But IF you reach that great Bazaar
    And settle up all your debts
    You realise that's about as far
    As the silk ever gets.

  • @bionicle37
    @bionicle37 13 днів тому +1

    More eu content please

  • @tylerhackner9731
    @tylerhackner9731 13 днів тому +1

    Agreed

  • @annoyingcommentator1582
    @annoyingcommentator1582 11 днів тому +1

    Calling an USB Stick basic is very surreal.

  • @thecactusman17
    @thecactusman17 13 днів тому

    Not a comment on the video theme but something is wrong with the audio. Lots of hitching in the first few minutes even after i closed out YT and restarted the video.

  • @bigjared8946
    @bigjared8946 13 днів тому

    The amount of extra carbon burned in the race to the bottom of cheapest labor/regulations is obviously superfluous and unnecessary.

  • @MichaelD-fn5lv
    @MichaelD-fn5lv 8 днів тому

    I guess we'll just be stuck with $50 flash drives again soon.. but hey! They'll be they'll be domestically made!

  • @jackwaterman-lw4co
    @jackwaterman-lw4co 13 днів тому

    If you had just built them in space, you could have increased the quality, and decreased the emissions on Earth.

  • @supergreen5855
    @supergreen5855 13 днів тому +3

    please put timestamps for the ad so I can skip it

  • @pistolen87
    @pistolen87 13 днів тому +1

    Yes, i know the saying that nobody can predict the future, least of all economists, but I don't understand it. I think economist would predict the future better than most people. What am I missing?

    • @Nothing2150
      @Nothing2150 13 днів тому +3

      This is referring to how often economist have been just incredibly wrong

    • @pistolen87
      @pistolen87 13 днів тому

      @@Nothing2150 I agree with that, but I think economists could predict the future better than a toddler. I don't know, it rubs me the wrong way when he says that or maybe I'm just too autistic.

    • @dead-claudia
      @dead-claudia 13 днів тому

      economists are often more right than most, but they're also often more wrong than most.

    • @pistolen87
      @pistolen87 13 днів тому

      @@dead-claudia because they try to predict the future, while most others don't?

    • @thekinginyellow1744
      @thekinginyellow1744 12 днів тому

      You know what the difference between an economist and a fortune teller is?
      Sometimes fortune tellers are right!

  • @davisoaresalves5179
    @davisoaresalves5179 13 днів тому

    You guys are taking a lot to release new videos.

  • @definitelynotadam
    @definitelynotadam 13 днів тому

    "Shocking" discovery.

  • @BeatsAndMeats
    @BeatsAndMeats 12 днів тому

    Peter Zeihan was right again!

  • @IdkIdkagain-er2qg
    @IdkIdkagain-er2qg 13 днів тому +1

    8:01

  • @10xstkf
    @10xstkf 5 днів тому

    The only channel i actually listen go at x1 speed 😂😂

  • @brosch91
    @brosch91 12 днів тому

    I imagine if we can ever make better batteries that weigh a lot less than current batteries, maybe we'll have automated quad-copter drones transporting goods and people around the world! A man can dream, at least.

  • @cliftonleathercraft
    @cliftonleathercraft 13 днів тому

    All out of idea's boys, how should we make our next video?
    Word salad, sneak in advertisement, word salad.
    Job well done.

  • @lisadolan689
    @lisadolan689 12 днів тому

    To make more money 0:17

  • @joshuapartridge5092
    @joshuapartridge5092 13 днів тому +2

    if only there was a ground news of economics, you could call it dirt cheap

  • @elymanic3497
    @elymanic3497 13 днів тому

    How much is the drive without globalization

  • @CanCobb
    @CanCobb 12 днів тому

    Mariners. Let's use the word mariners.

  • @gilberttello08
    @gilberttello08 12 днів тому

    👌👌

  • @aroto
    @aroto 3 дні тому

    highly trained seamen

  • @fammy_commander5776
    @fammy_commander5776 12 днів тому

    I love shipping

  • @Hood_Lemon
    @Hood_Lemon 13 днів тому +3

    BASED STATEMENT!

  • @robertprawendowski2850
    @robertprawendowski2850 13 днів тому

  • @Ghostgamingx36
    @Ghostgamingx36 13 днів тому +5

    first comment

  • @10TallDwarves
    @10TallDwarves 4 дні тому

    Square cube law. Done.

  • @igors2383
    @igors2383 12 днів тому

    nice knowledge of how to exploit the human psyche

  • @ClassyMonkey1212
    @ClassyMonkey1212 13 днів тому +14

    When you need some money but don't have a video idea

  • @TheIndependentLiberal
    @TheIndependentLiberal 13 днів тому +1

    So we are now saying the globalism we created to enslave Asia is bad because now Asia are rising thru globalism

    • @neolithictransitrevolution427
      @neolithictransitrevolution427 12 днів тому +1

      It's funny how, as a ruse, they said it would lift up Asia (while obviously trying to enslave it), but it did actually lift it up. What are the odds?
      /S

    • @TheIndependentLiberal
      @TheIndependentLiberal 11 днів тому

      Its the same as America telling Asians that you should all submit and be a member and be subjected to the rules of the UN, WEF, ICC, and other western globalist controlled organizations that controls multiple countries. America however is not a member or subjected to these rules for one reason, they know its a threath to America's sovereignity as these are unelected people and have no stake in the countries they control. still, you Asians better listen and lose your sovereignity to them.

  • @marcosdheleno
    @marcosdheleno 9 днів тому

    is that a question that even need to be asked? why did the pyramids got so big? why do we enjoy monster trucks? why massive pets and even wild animals look awersome to us?
    at this point, it should be a rhetoric question, since pretty much everyone already knows the answer...

  • @Vermilicious
    @Vermilicious 13 днів тому +6

    Small countries suffer. Towns suffer more. Citizens suffer the most. Almost whatever you wanna do in your life, there's always someone doing it cheaper. It's bad enough as it is with accumulation of money through Capitalism. We are increasingly becoming ants in a gigantic ant colony, and there's currently no way out.

  • @dominiquelaflamme7804
    @dominiquelaflamme7804 11 днів тому

    This guy reads the comments.

  • @jayfreechavez0000
    @jayfreechavez0000 11 днів тому

    😮

  • @Homer-OJ-Simpson
    @Homer-OJ-Simpson 13 днів тому

    Look at these comments being overly semantic or hyper critical over small things. Oil for the most part is fungible. It certainly is within its category. It’s no different than just about every other so called fungible good.
    Sure, technically he should have said “oil is fungible among the class/category of that oil” but this isn’t a video about oil and being so pedantic with everything will make a video less pleasurable to watch

  • @Pouncing_
    @Pouncing_ 13 днів тому +3

    Off topic, but still important: could you revisit your Why Africa is poor video, as there are plenty of historical mistakes in it? It would mean a lot to the people with origins from the continent

    • @Pattern_Noticer
      @Pattern_Noticer 13 днів тому +2

      He could but he will never be able to give you the true answer. He's an economist and for that you would need the kind of sociologist who has long since been blacklisted for wrong-think.

    • @doujinflip
      @doujinflip 13 днів тому +1

      It’s basically geography that impedes transportation, and weak civil institutions. The argument of Western intervention only gets weaker with time if African leaders continue to rule their realms through tribalist kleptocracy.

  • @dhanooshpooranan1861
    @dhanooshpooranan1861 11 днів тому

    It doesn’t stop in India, it stops in Sri Lanka

  • @AricBolf
    @AricBolf 13 днів тому

    Boomers pioneered the art of ‘pulling up the ladder behind them’

    • @johndoh5182
      @johndoh5182 13 днів тому

      Future generations have mastered the art of not accepting responsibility for the things that happen to them and blaming the world for their problems.

  • @aatkarelse8218
    @aatkarelse8218 13 днів тому

    So there are 12 locks in the panama canal, sure that is a lot of big locks. but you cant tell me that panama cant rebuild those to be even bigger evermore since they are making $$ with it.
    Don't do it and after a while you lose your revenue, or at least part of it.

    • @DudyMoko
      @DudyMoko 13 днів тому +1

      Panama literally expanded the canal less than a decade ago

    • @bepamungkas
      @bepamungkas 13 днів тому +3

      Too big of a canal and your citizen will die of thirst.
      No, this is no joke. Recent problems with the canal was due to dwindling supply from the reservoir.
      No, you can't use seawater since it will cause saltwater intrusion, not to mention damaging the infra.
      Yes you can work around that with enough money (and probably some war with neighbors to take their freshwater). The costs of which will be passed down to the ships, which will be passed down to consumers, which will cause cost to go up, demand to go down, less shipment to be made on average.

  • @jamesweldon8118
    @jamesweldon8118 8 днів тому

    Anybody else this this was a Wendover Productions video before they clicked?

  • @sharinaross1865
    @sharinaross1865 13 днів тому

    Why so few bot comments.

  • @caseywade4108
    @caseywade4108 13 днів тому +12

    Didn't expect an economist to spend 15-minutes espousing the zero-sum fallacy - "for every winner there is a loser." No. In economics, it's a win win. I get a burger, you get my money. History is filled with interests trying to stop progress to protect their niche. Like guilds trying to kill those making printing presses. But progress always wins, the world adapts and changes, and the world gets better

    • @dead-claudia
      @dead-claudia 13 днів тому +3

      economics isn't always zero-sum, but tradeoffs can make it almost indiscernible in specific cases sometimes

    • @andrewdunbar828
      @andrewdunbar828 13 днів тому

      burgers are too expensive now

  • @njipods
    @njipods 18 годин тому

    USB Memory stick is a bad example
    there actually insanely complicated to manufacture. not simple devices at all

    • @stc2828
      @stc2828 3 години тому

      It’s best example because it’s complicated, yet it’s dirt cheap!