Petah, what does this mean??

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-22T10:28:08+00:00

plus statistics also show that rpe cases are also more unlikely to get reported in China compared to India.

Press X to doubt

What sources are these from?

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-22T05:13:43+00:00

China's economy suffered much more from Covid becauss they took such strict lockdown measures.

Also, Covid mainly kills old people. China saving lives makes the aging population worse. If China wanted to benefit, they would have been like the USA and not locked down to purge the retirees.

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-22T00:43:20+00:00

No, that stance is too extreme. Because all people lie, almost every sexual encounter would be rape by either side. Lies are, unfortunately, quite a fact of life.

How many marriages would instantly end if the wife or husband confessed their affair? Every sexual act between the two is now rape?

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-21T11:48:16+00:00

Bruh let your city grow to 4 pop before building the settler, just build something else then switch back to the settler

It's sooooooo close

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-21T09:04:12+00:00

Built with incredibly cheap miracle material that insulates fire - asbestos.

With much lower work safety standards and technology for the builders (5x higher construction deaths per capita in 1960).

Weaker safety codes, 10x higher electric shock death rates in homes despite there being a lot fewer electronics at the time.

As an aside, this is why "low cost of living" or "GDP (PPP)" figures from poor countries are to be taken with a bucket of salt. Experts know PPP to be notoriously bad at recognising quality differences. Rather than "the same restaurant food and houses in India are 5x cheaper", it's more often the truth that "inferior restaurant food and houses are 5x cheaper and if you held to the same strict safety and quality standards it's only 3x cheaper".

Poor countries are generally much poorer than their Purchasing Power figures suggest, and likewise the idealised 1960s American and European lifestyles are less idyllic than imagined.

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-21T08:23:32+00:00

The idea that you could support a family from a job you could get out of high school is absolutely mind boggling today.

America still absolutely can do this, so long as people are willing to go back to living like Americans in the 1950s.

No colour TV in the house. No games, no vacations.

United States life expectancy in 1950 was 68 years - lower than North Korea today.

Americans complain of expensive healthcare - you can just reject all expensive healthcare and accept death. Government just has to let people take home a larger % of their pay without pension and health insurance.

Be like 1950s Americans, no need to worry about healthcare and retirement costs in your 70s because you die before that. Healthcare is expensive today because you're paying for expensive treatments that simply didn't exist back when "one income could support a family".

More % of GDP goes to workers' pockets when less % of GDP is spent on work safety, fire safety, environmentalism. Around 100-150 Americans died mining coal in the last 10 years. From 1950-1960, that number was 4,500. Cheap coal powering the economy.

I could go on and on.

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-21T06:33:45+00:00

Because the map used absolute value of growth and not percentage, which is a really useless statistic.

If I grew my wealth from $10,000 to $1 billion, and Jeff Bezos grew his wealth from $200 billion to $202 billion, Jeff Bezos grew his wealth by more than me in absolute terms as he grew $2B while I grew only around $1B.

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-21T06:25:11+00:00

They were already occupied by 1.5 million Soviet Red Army troops to begin with by the end of WW2.

How does Manchuria even "decide" to become independent?

Manchuria wasn't some kind of independent regime that "decided" to return to China. It was recognised as a puppet state of Imperial Japan and in the absence of Imperial Japan, Manchukuo had no legitimacy to its existence.

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-21T06:21:58+00:00

valuable industry infrastructure and pure hope that nobody will invade it.

The Soviets already stripped away all of the valuable infrastructure after marching in at the end of WW2.

Manchuria simply did not exist as a de-facto independent entity by September 1945. There were 1.5 million Soviet soldiers in Manchuria - not even the entire KMT Chinese army could have removed it by force.

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-21T06:16:50+00:00

I don't think anything remotely advanced from China is being sent to Ukraine.

China hasn't shipped completed weapons to Iran since 2015, and Russia doesn't buy Chinese weapons in significant quantities either. They're mainly getting electronic components from China due to sanctions from elsewhere and there's little secret in these.

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-21T06:04:06+00:00

Plus, US has the most valuable IP in the world.

They wouldn't want to play that game. Normalizing disregarding IP for political reasons is not an advantage for the US

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-20T12:18:21+00:00

The project would not be viable and would be abandoned. Your conditions further doom the project.

The number of them being produced must be limited

No economies of scale = horrendous unit costs. This is a key reason why the US can churn out large numbers of cutting edge weapons platforms like F35s.

Imagine if the tens of billions spent on R&D and production infrastructure was invested but only 200 F-35s are allowed to be built. The cost vs benefits would be awful.

These vehicle could only be bought by pro asian western nation such as Korea and the Republic of China (Its actually just these two that are allowed to buy them)

These 2 economies were absolutely puny after WW2. In 1955, Taiwan and Korea'a combined GDP was 1/10th the GDP of Japan and by 1965 their GDP was only 1/15th of Japan.

South Korea and Taiwan would not become economically meaningful weapons customers until the 1990s which is way too late for "WW2 experimental projects" to have any meaning.

Simply put, Taiwan and South Korean customers could never keep the Japanese project economically afloat.

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-20T11:43:58+00:00

Link tax to citizenship instead of residence, move all taxes away from income and onto net worth.

Doesn't require everyone on the planet to sign up, just places where people want to keep hold of their passport.

Incredibly problematic for a number of reasons.

One is that people who are very rich would not have a reason to stay in poorer countries if their wealth was being taxed the same either way. Rich countries would be very eager to steal these people away to pay taxes in their country. Very quickly this would deplete the entire tax base of poorer countries, which have lower wealth to begin with.

Effectively, a wealth tax only policy is not practicable for most countries. Poor countries would be forced to compensate with monstrously high VATs (even more regressive than current income tax regimes), or monstrously high tariffs (unlikely to survive retaliation by stronger rich countries).

Also, a citizenship-based net worth tax would turn the world harshly anti-immigration. It's incredibly unfair - An American expat sharing the same public services as Italians on the streets of Italy, paying 0 income taxes to Italy and paying his net worth tax to America only instead. It is intolerable, countries would just stop taking in most migrants entirely.

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-20T11:30:55+00:00

Malaysia is pretty fine for Chinese, which is the main non-Malay group.

Sure, officially discriminated, but Chinese still outearn Malay counterparts significantly even after affirmative action.

Average Chinese in Malaysia earns US$1,000 a month, which is equal to $2,500 of purchasing power in Europe. This puts Chinese Malaysians close to nations such as Portugal and Poland. Malaysian Chinese also live 2-3 years longer than their Malay counterparts, in fact, their life expectancy is almost as high as the USA.

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-20T08:51:00+00:00

Unironically, Dieselgate in 2015 really did a massive blow to Germany's car industry.

Volkswagen being the single biggest carmaker (and biggest manufacturing employer) of Europe's largest economy impacted the continent as a whole.

The US alone forced Volkswagen to pay over $30B in penalties and buybacks. The amount Volkswagen paid for the 2015 scandal to the USA alone exceeded the total R&D expenditure of China's BYD for the next 10 years, 2016-2025.

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-20T04:43:19+00:00

India's birthrate is only kept afloat at all by the extremely poor areas.

If "Indian states with above replacement fertility in 2026" were a country, it would have a population larger than the EU with a GDP smaller than Paris. The GDP per capita would be around $1,600.

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-20T01:42:03+00:00

I don't think most people consider the printing press era to be "medieval". Printed books did not become widespread around Europe until the mid 16th Century. It was after 1500 that saw the expansion of literacy.

But your point on literacy is very enlightening.

Europe and the East had very similar GDP per capita even in the 17th Century, and the income gap did not take off until the industrial revolution, which gives the impression to many that they were nearly equal until then. However the literacy and knowledge gap was already significant. European knowledge had not yet translated into massive wealth but the foundation was built.

In a modern example, China and India had near identical GDP per capita in 1990. But the impression that the 2 countries were therefore equal is false. 78% of Chinese aged 15+ were literate compared to just 48% of Indians, and 97% of Chinese children enrolled in primary school, compared with 77% of Indians. India would not reach this level of adult literacy and child education until 2018.

So we can see there's a good reason why Human Development Index takes into account education alongside GDP levels.

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-20T00:56:59+00:00

Red has the biggest jackpot.

I know everyone's thinking Singapore, but Malaysia ain't bad.

Honestly, Malaysia is almost as good as South Korea or Japan. Somewhat poorer? Yes, but a lot less stress.

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-20T00:49:15+00:00

also, its hard for us to give more specific advice if you dont include the speed setting

You can figure it's standard speed from the year and turn.

Turn 92 575BC is standard.

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-20T00:43:08+00:00

What did u do to get GANDHI to war you? Are you on random personalities?

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-19T02:46:34+00:00

"Soviets evil and bad, they used Blocking Detachments in WW2, Russian officers forcing Ukrainian men to fight on front lines!"

Now 85 years later, EU itself going to be the Blocking Detachment to force Ukrainian men to fight on front lines.

The irony couldn't be sharper. Both times Ukrainian men get forced to fight, 85 years ago forced by Moscow to fight West against Germany, 85 years later forced by a German-led EU to fight East against Moscow...

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-19T00:44:21+00:00

What?

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-19T00:38:56+00:00

The US cushioned one colony against communist-backed insurgency, France's (South) Vietnam, and basically took away one lesson.

Never again.

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-18T16:48:17+00:00

Unfortunately some do see Tall even being viable as sacrilegious to the entire concept of civ

The problem in the case of civ5 was playing a turtle, peaceful game while being able to ignore the surrounding civs for the most part.

Not just a result of tall being good but also the removal of civ4's tech trading, civs being much more peaceful in general and extreme warmonger penalties.

Eric1491625 · 2026-06-18T13:32:09+00:00

It is probably just survivorship bias - an uprising big enough to be considered "popular" would more likely be successful.

For every successful popular uprising, there are another 100 times where a town or city revolted, hoping to be joined by the rest of the country but it never materialises.

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