Taiwan is the largest exporter of semiconductors, but everyone is sleeping on the next big country..

I live in the Philippines and it's fucked up that it's cheaper for me to import products that are made here, for example Toshiba hard drives, from fucking China than it is to buy them locally.

>>105869186
That's nice anon, I envy you.

philippines iq is too low for that.

when you guys make geopolitical predictions you need to start taking race realism/iq into account or you're going to sound retarded.

china bulls were correct because the chinese had the intellectual capacity to eventually succeed despite being held back by communism.

>>105869713
SEAdogs have higher average IQ than Indians and most Middle Eastern countries.
In a decade Indonesia will probably be more geopolitically relevant than India

>>105869713
None of that really matters. Low factory wages is what matters.

>>105869899
ok but middle east/india is retarded.

obviously SEA is going to be more successful than them. but they aren't going to be powerful countries unless the size of the population is massively disproportionate.

so apparently taiwan is part if china now. That happened.

I sort of root for ASEAN countries as a natural counterbalance to China, not that I hate chinks or something but more competition is good. That said, after years of talking to people from these countries, well, lets say it's gonna be an uphill battle because they're quite behind in everything STEM.
I'd say one of the biggest motivators for them to get it together is that they're humiliated by China lite (singapore)
They need some aggressive programs to foster local talent AND keep it there.

It's just a Chinese island

>>105869913
>but they aren't going to be powerful countries unless the size of the population is massively disproportionate
Indonesia is the 4th largest country by population. Much of SEA is pretty densely populated and also has valuable natural resources which is why the Europeans and later Japanese wanted to colonize it.
I agree that they aren't going to be China/EU/US level powerful but they definitely have the makings to be pretty significant in the world stage. Most of SEA are in the top 50 of annual GDP growth with most of them gaining >4% GDP each year.

>>105869969
My thoughts as well. As the West and Russia declines and now that Iran is probably irrelevant it would be good for there to be a new secondary power to make sure China just doesn't get uncontested global dominance. My experience with SEAs isn't that they're completely retarded, at the very least they don't have that third-world gibsmedat mentality like Africans do and don't have as much of a penchant for scamming as jeets do.

>>105870049
>it would be good for there to be a new secondary power to make sure China just doesn't get uncontested global dominance
that's not going to happen. this is a delusional expectation. their iq isn't high enough.

>>105869186
I worked at a shipping company that shipped something, with its own address as the final destination, half way across the planet.
I think they do shit like that on occasion to trick governments into thinking they spend more than they actually do.

>>105869904
it does matter, otherwise mexico would had been the one making everyone's electronics

>>105869153 (OP)
I'm not. 10% of my portfolio is in the Philippians.

>>105869153 (OP)
And? They used to make a lot of ICs, but people left for a reason.

>>105869899
>SEAdogs have higher average IQ than Indians and most Middle Eastern countries
This isn't the flex you think it is.

>>105872855
If your portfolio isn't 100% isn't into something then you're a faggot who fell for the "diversification" meme.

>t. buys and sells $SOXL as he sees fit

Sat on cash waiting for the next market crash, senpai.

>>105869713
IQ is largely based on access to education, and most of the Philippines is underdeveloped with many families relying on their kids being out of school to work on the farms or go fishing instead of studying.
The inherent problem with the Philippines today is that they didn't do any sort of land reform, and now the government has to fight with the large land owners that are preventing development.

>>105869153 (OP)
nothing works there and i'm hearing they are having problems supplying water

>>105873419
>IQ is largely based on access to education
misleading. more education increases IQ but there are severely diminishing returns, hence why black americans are dumb as fuck compared to asian americans even controlling for years of education.

problems like land owners holding onto power is also related to IQ btw, with dumber populations being more corrupt and greedy. the problem with the phillipines is that they're genetically predisposed to lower IQ than east asians or whites.

>>105869153 (OP)
this >>105869713
China/Taiwan – eastern asia in generall, actually – are only successful because they have high IQ and low labor cost

The rest of asia is only good for the latter

>>105869899
fillipinos are niggers of sea

>>105869713
It's Amazing how well Lynn predicted the future with his work. Compare India to China for example.

>>105869917
always was

>>105873398
I pretty much have a second full time job where I spend hours every day reading SEC filings and making models. I even have a couple quantitative models I've built in pytorch. My highest conviction ideas get maybe 10% of the portfolio. Most are bellow 1%.

I think I make about twice minimum wage when you add everything up but having a second income stream is nice.

>>105873398
>Sat on cash waiting for the next market crash
Why weren't you shorting overpriced stuff? There's always plenty of that.
>>105873419
>IQ is largely based on access to education
IQ is mostly heritable and then partly based on access to resources like food because starving harms development. The only reason there's correlation with education is because intelligent people plan ahead and have better access to that because they now they need it to actually apply intelligence.

>>105869899
lol lmao even. The whole point of this god forsaken country is for white incels to find sub par women that they can brag about here. Their entire economy is just men from the west going there for sex tourism. Imagine thinking you are competing with any one else.

>>105875009
Not to be too pro-India but it looks to me like India just hasn't entered its super-linear growth phase yet. That probably won't really get going until after China starts to come apart.

>>105875073
I'd bet they're not actually South East Asian they're one of us who married one.

>>105869153 (OP)
Yeah the next big country in subsidizing companionship for lonely men in the west. What do these pathetic creature even do all day but breed and wait for their white savior. Sucia Sucia gente.

>>105869713
American corpos turned India, aka hell on Earth, into a functioning labor resource. If they can do the work, literally any country can.
Besides, even in the first world a lot of the blue collar labor is done by two digit IQ people.

>>105875086
Probably. They must justify that the race they married into are somehow superior instead of acknowledging that that’s all they could get. If you could do better you would’ve married white Timmy.

>>105875156
Nowhere outside Western Europe, the US, Canada, and Southern Brazil has a functioning software industry (other than outsourced consulting which doesn't count because the results don't matter.) It is genetic.

>>105875172
>southern brazil
How’s the weather in the favela anon you sneaky pete. Imagine putting Brazil anywhere near these other countries.

>>105875189
Yeah I debated not including it, I think I'm just surprised there's anything there at all.

>>105875210
Shows how much you know. India has a much bigger software industry than fucking Brazil.

>>105875217
It's mostly consulting. What actual Indian software companies are there?

>>105869153 (OP)
>but everyone is sleeping on the next big country..
the next big country is the other china
>>105875189
For some reason Brazilians think of themselves as white. Which is sad because they should embrace their beautiful brown skin-tones.

>>105873611
>>105875061
>IQ is mostly heritable and then partly based on access to resources like food because starving harms development. The only reason there's correlation with education is because intelligent people plan ahead and have better access to that because they now they need it to actually apply intelligence.
>the problem with the phillipines is that they're genetically predisposed to lower IQ than east asians or whites.
I beg to differ. Why are Filipino-Americans scoring higher than their Filipino cousins overseas? IQ is environmental.

>>105875210
There is nothing there my guy apart from poverty and off duty police officers who magically seem to be present at the scene of a crime until you realize there is crime everywhere so it’s not that magical

>>105875014
just like Okinawa was always part of Japan and Hawaii was always American

>>105875227
I met this incredible Venezuelan prostitute in Colombia. She looked Spanish with white skin and pink nipples. South America has these weird pockets of Europeans surrounded by hordes of niggers. I guess that's the future everywhere.

>>105875232
>IQ is environmental.
It's more about having food and sleep when you're developing. Education won't make eg an Indian or African high IQ.

>>105869913
china will just invade the next big chip producer, the fuck are these cesspools gonna do, no one supports them except white british pedophiles anyways

>>105875232
because filipino americans are a highly selected group of immigrants you fucking retard. if you found every 150 iq nigerian and moved them to the US, nigerians in nigeria would still be stupid as fuck.
>IQ is environmental
you haven't thought enough about this issue to even know what that really means.

>>105875172
The vast majority of software "engineering" jobs could be done by a literal retard. This was true even before the AIslop bubble.

>>105875285
Only until literal retards start doing them.

>>105875281
>highly selected group of immigrants
You must be an retard who actually has no knowledge of immigration and doesn't understand that Filipinos, along with pajeets, practice the art of bringing their cousins over to Western countries via petitions.
You haven't presented an actual argument, keep crying about it you retarded faggot.

>>105875295
Which they have. Greetings from Hyderabad, bloody benchod basterd.

>>105875254
IQ doesn’t matter my guy and neither does the environment. What people in this field are lacking is a fundamental understanding of how things work. Most people just memorize crap to pass job interviews to get jobs they are least qualified for. Indian, white, sea monkeys it doesn’t matter. When you understand things deeply you can start dreaming of things that high IQ people couldn’t even imagine. People like to say things like IQ and environment to put down other races but those people are just coasting off the success of their ancestors. Nobody in g is worth a damn. That is what the niggers never understood. True guineas.

>>105875281
>this nigga is a sea monkey
My condolences. I was gonna flame you for it but looks like god beat me to it. Try to not have daughters iykwim.

>>105875326
> That is what the niggers never understood. True guineas.
Kek isn’t that the opening monologue of the departed

>>105875303
>Filipinos, along with pajeets, practice the art of bringing their cousins over to Western countries via petitions.
it doesn't matter. people who are smart tend to have smarter family members because IQ is genetic, so the family they bring over will be dumber than themselves (who presumably gained access via work skills), but smarter than the country average.
>You haven't presented an actual argument,
the IQ denialism shit is so boring and old at this point and it's like debating flat earth.

>>105875345
i'm white. i suspect the person i'm arguing with is a prideful southeast asian though which is why they feel the need to pretend their people are smarter than they really are. i can't really relate because i don't feel the need to cope about white IQ being lower than jews or asians. but maybe that's because western white countries are pretty awesome.

>>105875397
it's not 2015 anymore /pol/kun nobody pretends to care about psychometrics anymore

>>105875397
But what does that mean? IQ is genetic sure and whites are smarter than other races so why are so many whites living below poverty line? What good has this IQ done for them if they are losing out to Indians? Perseverance always triumphs. You can go around bragging about your IQ but open your eyes son. Can’t you see?

>>105875490
>and whites are smarter than other races so why are so many whites living below poverty line?
when people say "x race is y intelligence" they're referring to the group average. there is a lot of variation in intelligence within each group. like i said before you don't even know how to think about this topic. the average white is apparently also "losing" to the smartest somalian, whatever losing means in this context.
>You can go around bragging about your IQ
i never bragged about my IQ. i even explicitly stated that white IQ is lower than jewish and east asian IQ. please learn more about this topic before posting about it.

>>105873419
>IQ is largely based on access to education
Absolutely incorrect, and beyond that you are either brown or jewish

>>105875326
>IQ doesn’t matter
>my guy

>>105875326
>my guy
In a better society you'd be in a concentration camp with the other gays.

>>105873419
>IQ is largely based on access to education
Black kids from high income families going to elite private schools get lower scores than poorfag white and asian kids going to public schools

>>105869713
holy based

>>105873611
NIgga please the Philippines has the highest percentage of East Asian people in Southeast Asia barring Singapore, and also the highest percentage of White people, Spanish, in Southeast Asia. Yet even though, they have more East Asian and European descent than their pure Southeast Asian countries, why are they poorer? I call bullshit on your racist analogies.

Look at the genetics between Philippines and Indonesia, the Philippines clearly has more East Asian and Europoean ancestries, but why are they poorer than Indonesians?

Cut it with your racist stupidity and inherited IQ pseudo-science.

>>105875250
>I met this incredible Venezuelan prostitute
Do you recall her physiognomy?
>pink nipples
Was she pink down there?

>>105875172
Eastern Europe has the best programmers thoughbeit

>>105879957
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vypGaK957-4

>>105873419
>IQ is largely based on access to education
I have a hard time believing that anyone genuinely believes this.

>>105873419
Education makes people dumber, not smarter. The dumbest pieces of shits I've ever met were highly educated people.

>>105878018
There are many factors to explain this including the fact that Indonesia has much more human and natural resources(oil, gas, coal and minerals), proximity to some of the worlds most important shipping lanes(Strait of Malacca which handles 25% of the global maritime trade), larger landmasses that support major cities, industrial complexes, etc(Philippines 7640 islands are generally smaller and more dispersed increasing transportation costs and making it harder to achieve economies of scale), proximity to other major markets(Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand), and with a much more homogeneous population(important factor to make sure the group is united towards a single goal instead of trying to destroy itself from the inside) all they needed is to do is to not be too dumb to effectively use their advantage.
Your point cannot invalidate that guys argument because there are too many factors influencing the disparities between Indonesia and Philippines.

being a bunch of islands would make transport of materials far too expensive