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arroz commented on Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/safaa1993

gumby · 2 years ago

"Only economy left?" You know, despite being called a "world" war, no American countries south of the USA were involved, nor most of Africa, India nor European powers like Portugal, Spain, Switzerland or Turkey, and probably others I forget. And this was despite two globe-girdling empires dragging in many of their subject states (e.g. Australia and Canada were dragged into the European theatre).

Also the article was discussing "greatest economy ever for the USA".

arroz · 2 years ago

there were countries in South America in the war. Brazil was one such country.

I don’t know about other South American countries.

I wouldn’t call Portugal an European power, they never had a significant population. Same for Switzerland.

Spain was completely destroyed just before world war 2 during a civil war

Most of Asia and Africa had been put under European control before world war 2, which actually was one of the reasons there was war: Germans had almost no colonies and wanted to expand

Turkey had lost world war 1 a few years back (Ottoman Empire)

arroz commented on Made in China 2025 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad... · Posted by u/1970-01-01

throwawaysleep · 2 years ago

Manufacturing is low value commodity work. If for some reason a country has lots of low value commodity bodies to screw things on, then focusing on manufacturing makes sense. But if you want a high standard of living, you need to have high productivity. That is incompatible with humans working assembly lines as they simply aren't that productive.

The US economy is the world leader and continues to pull ahead of everyone else.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/04/13/the-lessons-fro...

arroz · 2 years ago

Companies all over the world are having supply chain issues and you comment this lol

arroz commented on America Is Getting Lonelier and More Indoorsy. That's Not a Coincidence theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/chapulin

arroz · 2 years ago

I think this could be linked to obesity

arroz commented on History of Tcl tcl.tk/about/history.html... · Posted by u/uticus

arroz · 2 years ago

TCL is still the language of choice for EDA

arroz commented on CA Gov. Newsom vetoes bill that would have decriminalized psychedelic mushrooms abcnews.go.com/US/wireSto... · Posted by u/whalesalad

rayiner · 2 years ago

Drugs is a solved problem in most Asian countries that are much poorer than Portugal.

arroz · 2 years ago

It’s not a solved problem. It’s a nonexistent problem. You can’t solve a problem you don’t have.

arroz commented on America does not have a good food culture walkingtheworld.substack.... · Posted by u/resolutebat

diob · 2 years ago

The weird thing is in Melbourne, you can get top quality food for less or around equal to buying groceries. It's an actual "economy of scale", same with Tokyo. It's hard to comprehend for folks in places like the USA, where it's definitely way more expensive to eat out (and typically worse for you).

arroz · 2 years ago

I lived in Tokyo

When I lived there you would be able to get a gyudon for roughly 300-400 yens

It will get you full but it’s not very nutritive

You can eat many eastern / western fast food dishes for around that price, but if you want to go to an actual sit down restaurant it’s much more expensive

I didn’t cook in Tokyo because I was on a scholarship so I didn’t care, but friends told me it would be cheaper to cook too

arroz commented on America does not have a good food culture walkingtheworld.substack.... · Posted by u/resolutebat

Gigachad · 2 years ago

I can go out and buy a Bahn Mi for $10AUD which includes fresh bread baked that morning, fresh vegetables and grilled chicken. It's basically impossible to match this without doing it all from scratch and baking your own bread/grilling your own chicken. At which point you have to produce like 20 in a single go to match the value of the one I can buy pre made.

arroz · 2 years ago

Then Australia is incredible expensive

I can get the same dish in Canada for 8 AUD and can cook for less than half the money, and Canada is not a cheap country

arroz commented on America does not have a good food culture walkingtheworld.substack.... · Posted by u/resolutebat

jjav · 2 years ago

> Man I’m sorry nothing you said is impressive in most developed countries cities

I didn't say anything with the intent to be impressive. I'm describing differences between dense urban and suburban pros & cons. Neither is objectively better, they are different.

> No transit doesn’t need to be in the same route, there are bus terminals and metro line connections

Sure. So now you need to spend a lot of time traveling in the wrong direction just to get to a central terminal and then take another bus to the intended direction. It's all tradeoffs.

arroz · 2 years ago

It’s not the wrong direction…

You are not describing differences between urban & suburban

Maybe you are for America specifically but most of what you described is normal in urban areas of Japan or Germany for instance

arroz commented on America does not have a good food culture walkingtheworld.substack.... · Posted by u/resolutebat

jjav · 2 years ago

> You don’t need parking if you live in a city with nice transit

As long as you only ever want to see people who also live in the same transit route.

I have some friends that moved to an apartment in San Francisco, it is nearly impossible to visit them since there is no parking anywhere nearby.

> Low density means you are unlikely to live a walkable distance from a friend, so suburbia sucks for that too

This morning my elementary school age kid walked to a friends house in a different neighborhood (10 min walk). As I'm typing this, one of his school friends just walked over from his house (3 min walk) to play. Being able to walk (particularly the kids) to friends is one of the prime reasons people like the suburbs.

> Honestly the only thing you said that is true is the big yard

And the road biking, mountain biking, playgrounds, sport fields and so on.

> everything else is worse in suburbia than cities

Clearly a matter of activity preferences, so it is not an objective truth to say one or the other is worse. Dense cities are great for bars, clubs, museums, that kind of thing. Suburbs are great for outdoor activities, sports, hobbies that needs space (e.g. woodworking, try that in an apartment), walking to friends, forests, etc.

arroz · 2 years ago

Man I’m sorry nothing you said is impressive in most developed countries cities

No transit doesn’t need to be in the same route, there are bus terminals and metro line connections

arroz commented on America does not have a good food culture walkingtheworld.substack.... · Posted by u/resolutebat

jjav · 2 years ago

> Suburbia is literally characterized by being boring.

Not by everyone.

Suburbia is bad for bar crawls, but after my 20s that wasn't a priority. Suburbia is great for access to mountain biking, road biking, playgrounds for the kids, sports fields, walking to friends houses, having space for a yard and BBQs, having friends over (plenty of parking) and countless other activities. It's really pretty awesome.

arroz · 2 years ago

You don’t need parking if you live in a city with nice transit

Low density means you are unlikely to live a walkable distance from a friend, so suburbia sucks for that too

Honestly the only thing you said that is true is the big yard, everything else is worse in suburbia than cities

Maybe not American cities, but most suck anyway