Economy of Russia - Data vs Reality

Russia has great potential, but it can not be realized because the people are not truly free. The world's greatest resource is free minds. Russian despotism does not allow self-actualization and people to live to their fullest potential and dreams. Therefore, the economy lags and will continue to do so. I want a better world, but this begins with real human liberation.

[crand]

Russian worker's motto: they pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.

[Kingcarparpeggio]

He said ask yourself what you own that’s made in Russia. I did and the answer was nothing to my knowledge. I also asked myself what I own that’s made in the USA and the answer was also nothing to my knowledge. I live in the UK. It’s all made in China.🇨🇳

[deewells]

6:18: Given there is a war, everyone should be checking where any product they buy is made. Here in EU, we have a big problem with many businesses no longer stating country of origin or "Made in X". IKEA has gone the route of printing with microscopic fonts. We need to adopt a philosophy that if a business is too ashamed to state where their product is made, then the consumer is too ashamed to buy it. Please spread the word!

[joeschembrie]

Maybe the data coming out of Russia isn't real, but the artillery shells seem real enough.

[joblo]

That hundred year old sickle would probably be better than a new one you buy today ...

[liambyrne]

Do they make rockets or is it just shovels

[midlander]

To be honest, you'd need to go back a century or at least decades to find a scythe made in the US. This American has some old American made hand tools, but all the tools I buy now are made in China, whether they are hand tools or power tools.

[vibrolax]

I worked at a US precision optical technology company with a core scientific/engineering staff who had emigrated from the former USSR in the early 90's. They were top-notch in both theory and practice, became Americans, and lived the dream.

Unfortunately, the USA is becoming more like the USSR every day. My ex-USSR colleagues and I discussed it often.

[senttosiberia]

I’ve lived in russia for almost 30 years. I’m a farmer. What he says might be true, but if you accept that ask the same questions about the USA ... not as bad by far ... yet.

Do you compare 100yo Pennsylvania Steele with modern scythes or cycles made in the USA Today.

[LambofSuffering]

And this is how you end up with Russia is running out of missiles in 2 weeks and washing

[pychoupchhoeuy]

Where do they get fertilizer from ? Just one thing and how they build their one spaceship ?

[playboyr]

Holy shit, this is some serious coping skills!!!

[davidstrojan]

Your analogy of sickle VS scythe is totaly wrong. These tools are used for different things. We use scythe for cutting grass on difficult, ususaly mountainous terrain. It doesn't need to be hard and if you hit a rock, it doesn't break. Sickle is usually used in the woods, for cutting branches, undergrowth, herbs, etc. If you use sickle to cut a meddow, it will break your back and if you use a scythe to peel bark from a spruce tree, you'll be in the woods forever. FYI: scythes have two handles, so you can swing them in a circular motion, yours doesn't: you have no clue how to use it, do you...

[LMB]

Russia doesn't even make oil pumping equipment…

[KuopassaTv]

Made in Russia: timber, coal, gas, oil. But then, they're not made but collected from the ground.

[Bravestandalone]

Everything I bought here in the US was "MADE IN CHINA" - we don't produce much either and that's why the inflation is so high! Russian military equipment seems to be doing fine; they are #2 right after the US in military exports!

[smk]

Interested fact NASA has been using only Russian space rocket engines and space ships. since they scraped the space shuttle.

[KarenS-dt]

Love this video, keep up the good work!

[piotrczubryt]

100 years old sickle from Pennsylvania, must be good. What about new sickles from Pennsylvania?

[StepDub]

Seems appropriate to be holding a sickle while talking about Russia.