Special Economic Zone, Democracy, Corruption, China, US, Donald Trump, Europe (w Quinn Slobodian)

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  • @IndiaGlobalLeft
    @IndiaGlobalLeft  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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  • @DPtdryste
    @DPtdryste 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Trust me, people care much more about the government actually maintaining the economy and infrastructure and no new wars of choice than we actually care about continuously voting in elections that are already corrupted by corporate money. Politics should be continously invisibly competent, not transparently disappointing with fake chances of positive change every 2-4 years.

    • @44bett
      @44bett 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well said.

    • @OrwellsHousecat
      @OrwellsHousecat 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, but these two lads just want to "problematise"

    • @R_Priest
      @R_Priest 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      LOL. Yes, modern "democracy" has become the "charade of democracy" and the "ritual of selection" but fails to deliver on its promise. What's the promise? 1. Human rights, 2. Rule of law, 3. Institutional transparency and efficacy, 4. a government that "serves the people.", and last but not least, 5. ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY.
      Modern "democracy" (so-called) fails on ALL METRICS today. Democracy shouldn't exist for its own sake, but its usefulness. For a number of reasons, democracy, like capitalism, has become bastardized, corrupted, and co-opted by oligarchs and bad actors. It's time for REVOLUTION.

  • @updogysl
    @updogysl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great perspective. CHIPS act sounds like what you described, even 1 of dakotas being a newer modern tax haven. Subbed and liked, great channel.

  • @m.rebman7221
    @m.rebman7221 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    An important analysis of the Neo-Medieval tendency in anarchy-capitalism - particularly among the newly minted billionaires in Silicon Valley and elsewhere.

  • @ismaelsamandu7078
    @ismaelsamandu7078 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Business are not compatible with democracy. Paperwork's objective is to guarantee the rights of the people and the country... or at least is what they claim.

  • @OrwellsHousecat
    @OrwellsHousecat 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Business is authoritarian, not democracy.

    • @dbremont
      @dbremont 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Is china a democracy? If so; what is a democracy?

    • @OrwellsHousecat
      @OrwellsHousecat 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@dbremont everything is democracy. My shoe is democracy. The sky is democracy. All nonsense arguments made by the guest on this podcast are democracy.

    • @miophx8283
      @miophx8283 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Business is not authoritarian. Absolute power corrupts and big business has too much power. People become corrupted as they gain more power.

    • @OrwellsHousecat
      @OrwellsHousecat 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@miophx8283
      🙄
      business absolutely is authoritarian. Vision & commands flow top-down. Rules must be obeyed, not negotiable. Fired if you don't live up to expectations. Disciplinary procedures. Zero democracy.
      That's all within a company.
      And it's cartel between companies.

    • @yellowsheeps
      @yellowsheeps 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dbremont "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance"
      - H.L. Mencken, circa 1920-1930's Voting is fine for unimportant issues like what color to paint the bus stops. When it involves governing a country, only fools think democracy works.

  • @JianYZhong
    @JianYZhong 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Voting is part of democracy, and China has that too. But is multiparty rivalry essential to democracy. China has multiple parties too, but the cooperative under communist party leadership. Why is that not democracy? This historian could reflect more on his presumption that China is not a democracy.

    • @oddhouseproduction
      @oddhouseproduction 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your brainwash is amazing. Where did you get it, I need a discount coupon.

    • @JianYZhong
      @JianYZhong 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@oddhouseproduction it’s called “independent thought”. You should try it!

    • @oddhouseproduction
      @oddhouseproduction 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JianYZhong And this words are coming from cee-cee-pee 50cent army 👌💫 😂

    • @JianYZhong
      @JianYZhong 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@oddhouseproduction Cooperative democracy can be found in many different traditions. The concept of a "loyal opposition" (in the Westminster tradition) is an expression of cooperative democracy. The reason why democracy is so dysfunctional in the West today is that this concept has disappeared in the West; Western politicians are now so cynical they will lie and manipulate to win power, and they have no higher purpose other than to acquire power for its own sake.

  • @marycollins8215
    @marycollins8215 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you.

  • @phoenixazulhtx
    @phoenixazulhtx 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Such an interesting topic! Thank you for all your hard work ❤

  • @StateOfPurgatory
    @StateOfPurgatory 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellant information and knowledge
    T y

  • @oddhouseproduction
    @oddhouseproduction 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    SEZ - "to do medical experimentation" @ 7:00 - some dr. Moreau stuff just casually thrown in there...

  • @Djordje-pr6vb
    @Djordje-pr6vb 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So all want to copy the China model... So how did it happen? I think that's the question of the book I'd read.

    • @dbremont
      @dbremont 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The name china model is idiotic; there is not such a thing; is learning & adaption; they describe stages of growth themselves; not a china model.

  • @yashijainj8032
    @yashijainj8032 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love your channel. How can I become a member?

    • @IndiaGlobalLeft
      @IndiaGlobalLeft  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      th-cam.com/channels/Bqd_VSxqDngXahpcRp7daA.htmljoin
      Click on the link and chose your membership level.

  • @p4miller
    @p4miller 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I thought this was India and the Global Left not India and the Free Market.

    • @p4miller
      @p4miller 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      you only talk about wages. You did not discuss the 12 to 14 hr workdays. Is the sacrifice worth it? At what cost to develop?

    • @rakadus
      @rakadus 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Shatrubodh is equally important.

  • @JianYZhong
    @JianYZhong 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I really think the historian doesn’t know Singapore. Singapore”s foreign Labour has more rights than workers in the US. They are free to leave Singapore, but choose to remain because working in Singapore brings benefit to them and their dependants. There seem a lot of prior prejudices that this historian hasn’t critically examined.

  • @davidwatson7604
    @davidwatson7604 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Algo boost!

  • @paulwhetstone0473
    @paulwhetstone0473 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I really give the interviewer credit for addressing this “zone” structure and especially for him having the patience to listen to the interviewee drone on and on and on such gobbledygook.

  • @prasoonj
    @prasoonj 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love the lounge music! What is it?

  • @CharlesBrown-xq5ug
    @CharlesBrown-xq5ug 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Technology may have advanced enough to release civilization from the confines of the second law of thermodynamics.
    These confines were imposed during Victorian England's scientific and religious cultural fascination with steam engines.
    The second law is behind modern refgeration needing electrical energy to compress the refrigerent to force it to release as waste the heat that it has removed from the refrigerator's service interior in the cooling part of the refrigerent's circulation. There is also discarded heat from mechanical friction and electrical resistance. The total released and discarded heat minus the removed heat equal the electrical input but the attached conversion of electricity into heat is forced.
    Refrigeration by the principle that energy is conserved should produce electricity instead of consuming it.
    It makes more sense that refrigerators should yield electricity because energy is widely known to change form with no ultimate path of energy gain or loss being found. Therefore any form of fully recyclable energy can be cycled endlessly in any quantity.
    In an extreme case senario, full heat recycling, all electric, very isolated underground, undersea, or space communities would be highly survivable with self sufficient EMP resistant LED light banks, automated vertical farms, thaw resistant frozen food storehouses, factories, dwellings, and self contained elevators and horizontal transports.
    In a flourishing civillization senario, small self sufficient electric or cooling devices of many kinds and styles like lamps, smartphones, hotplates, water heaters, cooler chests, fans, radios, TVs, cameras, security devices, robot test equipment, scales, transaction terminals, wall clocks, open or ciosed for business luminus signs, power hand tools, ditch diggers, pumps, and personal transports, would be available for immediate use incrementally anywhere as people see fit.
    Some equipment groups could be consolidated on local networks.
    If a high majority thinks our civilization should geoengineer gigatons or
    teratons of carbon dioxide out of our environment, instalations using devices that convert ambient heat into electricity can hypothetically be scaled up do it with a choice of comsequences including many beneficial ones.
    Energy sensible refrigerators that absorb heat and yield electricity would complement computers as computing consumes electricity and yields heat. Computing would be free. Chips could have energy recycling built in.
    A simple rectifier crystal can, iust short of a replicatable long term demonstration of a powerful prototype, almost certainly filter the random thermal motioren of electrons or discrete positiive charged voids called holes so the electric current flowing in one direction predominates. At low system voltage a filtrate of one polarity predominates only a little but there is always usable electrical power derived from the source, which is Johnson Nyquest thermal electrical noise. This net electrical filtrate can be aggregated in a group of separate diodes in consistent alignment parallel creating widely scalable electrical power. The maximum energy is converted from ambient heat to productive electricity when the electrical load is matched to the array impeadence.
    Matched impeadence output (watts) is k (Boltźman's constant), one point three eight x 10^ minus 23, times T (temperature Kelvin) times bandwidth (0 Hz to a natural limit ~2 THz @ 290 K) times rectification halving and nanowatt power level rectification efficiency, times the number of diodes in the array.
    For reference, there are a billion cells of 1000 square nanometer area each per square millimeter, 100 billion per square centimeter.
    Order is imposed on the random thermal motion of electrons by the structual orderlyness of a diode array made of diodes made within a slab:
    -----‐------‐----_____-- Out
    🔻🔻🔻🔻
    ■■■■■■___ + Out
    All the P type semiconductor anodes abut a metal conductive plane deposited on the top face of the slab with nonrectifying joins; the N type semiconductor cathodes or common cathode abuts the bottom face. As the polarity filtered electrical energy is exported, the amount of thermal energy in the group of diodes decreases. This group cooling will draw heat in from the surrounding ambient heat at a rate depending on the filtering rate and thermal resistance between the group and ambient gas, liquid, or solid warmer than absolute zero. There is always a lot of ambient heat on our planet, more on equatorial dry desert summer days and less on polar desert winter nights.
    Focusing on explaining the electronic behavior of one composition of simple diode, a near flawless crystal of silicon is modified by implanting a small amount of phosphorus (N type conductivity) on one side from a ohmic contact end to a junction where the additive is suddenly and completely changed to boron (P type conductivity) with minimal disturbance of the crystal lattice. The crystal then continues to another ohmic contact.
    A region of high electrical resistance forms at the junction in this type of diode when the phosphorous near the ĵunction donates electrons that are free to move elsewhere while leaving phosphorus ions held in the crystal while the boron donates holes which are similalarly free to move. The two types of mobile charges mutually clear each other away near the junction leaving little electrical conductivity. An equlibrium width of this region is settled between the phosphorus, boron, electrons, and holes. Thermal noise is beyond steady state equlibrium. Thermal noise transients, where mobile electrons move from the phosphorus added side to the boron added side ride transient extra conductivity so the forward moving electrons are preferentally filtered into the external circuit. Mobile electrons are units of electric current. They lose their thermal energy of motion and gain electromotive force, another name for voltage, as they transition between the junction and the array electrical tap. Inside the diode, heat is absorbed: outside the diode, to exactly the same extent, an attached electrical circuit is energized. The voltage of a diode array is likely to be small so many similar arrays need to be put in series to build higher voltage.
    Understanding diodes is one way to become convinced that Johnson Nyquest thermal electrical noise can be rectified and aggregated. Self assembling development teams may find many ways to accomplish this wide mission. Taxonomically there should be many ways ways to convert heat directly into electricity.
    A practical device may use an array of Au needles in a SiO2 matrix abutting N type GaAs. These were made in the 1970s when registration technology was poor so it was easier to fabricate arrays and select one diode than just make one diode.
    There are other plausible breeches of the second law of thermodynamics. Hopefully a lot of people will join in expanding the breech. Please share the successes or setbacks of your efforts.
    These devices would probably become segmented commodities sold with minimal margin over supply cost. They would be manufactured by advanced automation that does not need financial incentive. Applicable best practices would be adopted. Business details would be open public knowledge. Associated people should move as negotiated and freely and honestly talk. Commerce would be a planetary scale unified conglomerate of diverse local cooperatives. There is no need of wealth extracting top commanders. We do not need often token philanthropy from the top if the wide majority of people can afford to be generous.
    Aloha
    Charles M Brown
    Kilauea Kauai Hawaii 967543

    • @miophx8283
      @miophx8283 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Technology has advanced to the point where it promises freedom but ensures enslavement. Just wait until Neuralink is foisted upon the us!

  • @StéphanieRouillon
    @StéphanieRouillon 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    In France, we killed our king because we wanted one thing to come to an end : the power of one or of a little group of people, from what come arbitrary decisions and privileges,. This is what democracy is about. Every citizen is equal in front of the Law. Nowadays, we lost it again but we're expecting to get it back as soon as possible...

    • @Bernadettk
      @Bernadettk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In Hungary we have a holy crown..just the person coupd use who treated each equally ..in other case people could take it back!

    • @StéphanieRouillon
      @StéphanieRouillon 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Bernadettk Thank you for your interresting answer. It's always a good thing to learn from other peoples' cultures. I'll try and dig into this.

    • @yellowsheeps
      @yellowsheeps 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ideology is not reality. In reality a democracy always leads to an Oligarchy. Money power is real and the wealthy can always manipulate the ignorant majority. Consider, "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance" - H.L. Mencken, circa 1920-1930's

  • @OrwellsHousecat
    @OrwellsHousecat 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Democracy-fetish

  • @MahmutAyabakan
    @MahmutAyabakan 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Gonzalez Sandra Lopez Cynthia Garcia Patricia

  • @anubhaanushree536
    @anubhaanushree536 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You pushed him too hard I think! I hope he learns something from this interview!

  • @AntonStampfl
    @AntonStampfl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    An interesting discussion and I appreciate the professional way that Jyotishman conducted the interview and his questions which were very revealing. I have to say that the guest came across at least to me as being rather muddled at best. I read his book, “Crack-up ..” to confirm, which is well written in a trendy word-salad type style. It seems to me that your guest gives a lot of weight to a number of “hipster-capitalists”: you know the ones, those that like to build ginormous rockets and dream of space travel: Those type of ultra-Capitalist - not exactly what one might call intellectual or scholarly in any sense of the word. I don’t see much substance from the book and especially after listening to the author on your show either. I won’t be specific as there are holes throughout the book - much like his “zones” - “pockmarked, perforated, tattered and jagged, ripped up and pin pricked …”[Crack-up …]. One glaring missing part of the book is how this actually ties in with Capitalism. I think that there seems to be a conflation of the meanings of Capitalism and Markets - a lot of references to those wonderful men called “market radicals”. Of course Markets and Capitalism are two very different things. I won’t explain here because there is ample out there that does it better than I can here. Albeit to say I recommend the following from Richard Wolff, th-cam.com/video/IiMvcpRPUNE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=5dusj7qf3wOjZQGU - “Why Capitalism is NOT a Market System”. He explains things so incredibly well and it's refreshing to listen to after the vacuous word-salad from the interviewee given here. I like it because Richard is so in your face about what Capitalism really is - quite the opposite of your mealy-mouthed guest.
    I get the feeling that your guest would like to write a novel rather than a history on “THE ZONE” - maybe with a Hollywood movie in the pipeline - “wouldn’t that be so Amazing”. I’m from Australia and there are several “Australian” films that fit this “ZONE” genre that spring to mind - Wake in Fright (1971), The Cars That Ate Paris (1974), and of course who can’t forget Mad Max (1979). There is a type of apocalyptical character to “THE ZONE” - that satisfies the typical old-fashioned Imperial messianic desires - - the desires I’m 100% sure of those "wonderful market radicals” and looks like your guest too. There is an amazing book by Patrick White (an Australian who won the 1973 Nobel Prize in literature) called "Riders in the Chariot" (1961) that sums up all these desires. I suggest you read his book and forget about the economic zones book - it will be much more insightful as well as truly spiritually rewarding.

  • @marke4640
    @marke4640 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Quinn: work on your "kind of" and "sort of" mannerisms.

    • @OrwellsHousecat
      @OrwellsHousecat 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nah, cos then you'd see he has nothing of substance