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>>109001625
>>WE HAVE TO INVEST TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS WE DON'T HAVE INTO AI BECAUSE CHINA WILL OVERTAKE US GOY
No, correction.
We have to invest to have AI that isn't developed by any other power so we don't fall into the same trap in AI we have falling into with other tech.
>>meanwhile in reality
GDP is a meaningless number.
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>>109002313
>China actually produces real things.
Things made with imported materials. China exports their labor as a service, their economy is no more real or fake than Europe's is
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>>109002353
The message I'm getting from this comparison is that non-Chinese don't want to or straight up lack the ability to work or produce, even if they have resources they just choose not to. They'd rather import foreigners or export their money. A choice they consistently make for some reason.
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>>109002487
Using per capita gdp when can compare economic performance apples to apples
China's economy is actually pretty bad relative to its population. 4x the population of the USA yet still can't even surpass it economically. That being said, it's still better than India. I don't know what India's excuse is though.
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>>109002511
>They'd rather import foreigners or export their money. A choice they consistently make for some reason.
Because foreign labor is cheap and China has an industrial base of over a billion people to leverage this. In order to compete with China on a global export market, you'd have to devalue your own exports to make them cheaper for foreign import, which means lower working wages, lower quality of life, HDI drops, per capita GDP drops etc and what you're left with is that you basically just become China in a bad way, and neither Europe nor the USA want this.
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>>109002533
Sorry to have to be the one to tell you this anon, but skylines aren't a good measure of wealth. Even the poorest African countries have skyscrapers
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>>109002533
This your country?
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>>109002572
Africa doesn't have the infrastructure go with it.
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>>109002650
Neither does China
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>>109002707
You also get stabbed while commuting in those countries.
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>>109002707
It depends on a lot of factors. The data in that image comes from each respective countries official survey's, like US census data for example
The 45 minute number comes directly from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam
https://www.eur.nl/en/ehero/media/85023
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>>109002732
The Netherlands only has one metropolitan area called the Randstad.
And it takes about 45 minutes to go from one end to the opposite end.
Even if you don't count anyone living and working in the same city (I guess a 10 minute bicycle ride isn't a "commute") that implies everyone commutes from Amsterdam to Rotterdam or vice-versa.
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>>109002724
Could it be that USA's pivot to cars from the regular means of public transportation associated with developed technological countries with advanced infrastructure was, in a way, nigger-driven?
Seriously, how do you take a bus if it's gonna be a potential knife fight every single night?
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>>109002740
>This data allows comparison between
how the same person feels at home and during their commute, which eliminates the
selection effects. The number of participants is large enough to allow a split-up between
different kinds of people, in particular among the many well-educated women who
participated in this study.
So they picked people to fill their categories including long and extremely long commutes.
That's not a representative cross-section of the Dutch population and the study doesn't claim it is either.
It's like picking 1000 people with zero income and 1000 people who make 1 million per year to research if money does/doesn't make you happy and then someone else uses your data to claim the average income in The Netherlands is 500K.
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>>109002827
It's because cars are statistically faster than trains are. Trains are bottlenecked by scheduling. It's the reason Japan has relatively long commute times despite having the fastest trains in the world. The speed of the train isn't the issue, it's the speed of making stops and loading/unloading passengers
Public transport is good for accessibility, but not necessarily for commute times, in fact in a lot of cases, bicycles are actually faster than trains are for similar reasons
Regardless, every countries commute time generally hovers between an hour to half an hour as per Marchetti's constant, as regardless if you're European or American, humans generally have the same commute time "budget" so-to-speak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchetti%27s_constant
This also has its own implications though, as commute times regardless of transport infrastructure remain relatively constant, what this means is in practice, transport infrastructure will not improve commute times but will allow further commutes from home
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>>109002557
I don't want wealth either, I want a place to live. I don't care if other people living in my area have or hold wealth I need fucking food and facilities and shit not a nation's wealth or hubris with things like statues and monuments.
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>>109002353
This map is at least a little off. Rare Earths aren't rare. In fact, they are quite common. It's the processing and infrastructure that is expensive and takes time to develop. Because China subsidizes it's rare earth production, in addition to the low cost of Chinese workers, it will always be able to outcompete (meaning cost) developed countries in the market for rare earths.
So, this chart is off.
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>>109004258
Nowhere in that chart does it imply that rare earth metals are literally rare, it's simply tallying total resource value of their respective countries and you're just inserting your own headcanon into it, take your meds schizo
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>>109001719
>OP is trying to communicate that USA needs to invest more in automation.
Is he? The USA is still the second largest manufacturing country and every US state also has a higher per capita GDP than China. How would automation improve anything?
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>>109002650
>muh high speed rail
people really ate this propaganda up, guess what, genius? we have high speed rails in europe, too
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>>109001678
most of Europe is below every single US state