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supercat

supercat

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China's demographic crisis is greatly exaggerated. According to Glenn Luk (graph below), by the 2040s:
  • Slight decrease (~10%) in total workforce, but huge increase in overall human capital, advanced skills, etc.
  • Workforce with tertiary education will double over next 20y and about half of these people will have STEM or some kind of advanced manufacturing training.
  • So capability to do high-value add engineering, tech, design, etc. could DOUBLE in next 20 years.
  • The number of workers in PRC who have done a hard STEM degree in college or have had vocational training for adv mfg could eventually be > Rest of World combined.
  • To drill down further, look at PISA scores for 15 yo kids. A much larger fraction of students in China are prepared for hard STEM, engineering, etc. than in the US or EU. We only have PISA data for certain regions of PRC, but internally researchers can compare Gaokao scores across regions to determine that the limited PISA data is reasonably representative of the whole country, esp. in the next 20 years as inland provinces become richer.
  • ~200M workers in advanced factories can produce all the manufactured goods required in the entire world.
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Faisal Iqbal

Faisal Iqbal

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The China rare earths problem isn't as bad as we think. It's much worse: a look at gallium​

Here is the brilliant idea, Department of War should start buying the GaN based mobile chargers from Chyna and start licking them...
 
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Randomuser

Randomuser

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A potato said:
More like the Isayama (The Creator) ruined his character at the end. He turned him into a crybaby simp.
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I like how AOT kinda died after the ending and no one talks about it anymore. Same as Game of Thrones.

Even when a series ends, if its truly memorable and ends on a good note, it will still be talked about such as Naruto which ended over 10 years ago. But when you have a really bad ending, it kills off people's will to talk about it anymore.

Might be a bad sign for Japan then.
 
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