I think it's designed to be an a try at the short silly video content rather than all his videos be some long serious video.
But it also highlights despite ALL of the sanctions the West has done to Russia, it hasn't done a bloody thing in comparison look at how bad prices are in Western countries only made worse with constant establishment fuckery in the farming sector while Russia opened it's arms to white south African farmers.
Yeltsin being so demoralized by a Texas grocery trip that he goes home and dismantles the USSR is one of my favorite episodes in history. I assume this is some kind of obtuse callback.
You can only compare grocery shopping bills in different countries by factoring in the average income of the different countries (and geographic locations inside of said country -- Moscow isn't Siberia).
As for the availability of products. There isn't a single supermarket in the US that is fully stocked?
Inflation matters because of purchasing power. Prices go up and you can buy less. And if you don't know the purchasing power (average income) in Russia then what good is knowing the prices in a random supermarket in Moscow? Or comparing the receipts.
Hypothetically non-American food suppliers should be able to bring goods to market at much lower costs and undercut existing American food suppliers. In reality we see that's not the case. What's stopping it from happening?
Avg salary in USA is about ~30-40k USD and the avg salary in Russia is about ~10k USD.
For Russian groceries to be at least 4x cheaper is not covering Russia in glory or anything, but it should make you question why food is literally 4x more expensive in the USA. You should also be asking why almost every single prepackaged 'food' in the USA is full of soybean oil, canola oil, etc when these additives are not present in Europe.
The US being a much wealthier nation has more advanced automation and industrialization of the food supply which ought to drive the costs down to be lower than that of a more primitive food supply.
For me that realization came when I watched a video on how frozen pizzas were made. They're made at such a scale and with such a sophisticated level of automation that in a little 5 minute video you probably see 10,000 pizzas roll off the line. Yet if I were to make that same pizza it'd cost me less than to just buy a frozen one. Why is that? Shouldn't all the automation and market competition drive the cost of goods down to just above the cost of the raw materials?
If I were to make my own gasoline I couldn't do it cheaper, so why isn't that true for a pizza?
In 1989, Boris Yeltsin was on a diplomatic visit to Texas. He wanted to see every day American life so he asked to stop at at a grocery store. The soviets of course would have prepared a potemkin village for such a visit, and he suspected Americans might try the same thing, so he specifically wanted to arrive unannounced at a random unprepared grocery store. He was absolutely shocked at the abundance and variety available in a random small town grocery store. This experience undermined his faith in communism and he later became the first president of post-soviet Russia.
This story absolutely mentally booty-blasted every soviet on the planet. An entire generation of embarrassment that they've been fighting shower arguments against ever since. 35 years of cope and seethe. They just can't get over it.
The issue as I see it is that people have this conception of quality of life for the "third world" that is at least 30 years out of date. That you can go to a grocery store in a "poor country" and have about the same experience as if you do so in the US. Yes it is the Capitol City* and therefore wealth and infrastructure is concentrated there. Even so, that is something I believe a lot of people in the West don't expect.
That affluence was one of the big selling points to Western Liberal Democracy™, and we we were told that affluence made the downsides worth it. Well now we see that certain other countries have that affluence available but without the downsides. So now we start to wonder why exactly we have to put up with all these downsides when other countries get the affluence (albeit to a lesser extent) without the downsides.
If we're so much wealthier than Russia, how much more able ought we be to "have our cake and eat it, too"?
Those downsides apparently don't include "Someone tries to push you in front of a subway train while you're waiting for it in a graffiti-filled station that smells like piss and shit" while in one of their major cities.
But again, why can't in these regards we do these things at least as well as Russia does them, without their downsides? Western Liberal Democracy™, we are told, is supposed to enable this. But it clearly doesn't.
I don't pretend to know much about Moscow's metro but I've ridden the trains in some American cities and compared to that it seems like night and day. (and that's ignoring their glorious architecture)
It wasn't just the store, he showed a subway, and the countryside. And he stressed that they didn't know why things were different in Russia while showing a slide show of white people.
Man goes to supermarket that doesn't suffer from Bidenomics, is shocked, the end.
I think it's designed to be an a try at the short silly video content rather than all his videos be some long serious video.
But it also highlights despite ALL of the sanctions the West has done to Russia, it hasn't done a bloody thing in comparison look at how bad prices are in Western countries only made worse with constant establishment fuckery in the farming sector while Russia opened it's arms to white south African farmers.
Russia's economy strangely increased rather then shrink.
Yeltsin being so demoralized by a Texas grocery trip that he goes home and dismantles the USSR is one of my favorite episodes in history. I assume this is some kind of obtuse callback.
Am I missing something here? :')
You can only compare grocery shopping bills in different countries by factoring in the average income of the different countries (and geographic locations inside of said country -- Moscow isn't Siberia).
As for the availability of products. There isn't a single supermarket in the US that is fully stocked?
He was poorly making a point that sanctions on Russia aren't working.
Honest question: Why should groceries cost more in countries where the average person earns more?
Presumably the US should be more advanced and efficient at bringing food to market. Where's the cost savings?
Inflation matters because of purchasing power. Prices go up and you can buy less. And if you don't know the purchasing power (average income) in Russia then what good is knowing the prices in a random supermarket in Moscow? Or comparing the receipts.
Hypothetically non-American food suppliers should be able to bring goods to market at much lower costs and undercut existing American food suppliers. In reality we see that's not the case. What's stopping it from happening?
Avg salary in USA is about ~30-40k USD and the avg salary in Russia is about ~10k USD.
For Russian groceries to be at least 4x cheaper is not covering Russia in glory or anything, but it should make you question why food is literally 4x more expensive in the USA. You should also be asking why almost every single prepackaged 'food' in the USA is full of soybean oil, canola oil, etc when these additives are not present in Europe.
The US being a much wealthier nation has more advanced automation and industrialization of the food supply which ought to drive the costs down to be lower than that of a more primitive food supply.
For me that realization came when I watched a video on how frozen pizzas were made. They're made at such a scale and with such a sophisticated level of automation that in a little 5 minute video you probably see 10,000 pizzas roll off the line. Yet if I were to make that same pizza it'd cost me less than to just buy a frozen one. Why is that? Shouldn't all the automation and market competition drive the cost of goods down to just above the cost of the raw materials?
If I were to make my own gasoline I couldn't do it cheaper, so why isn't that true for a pizza?
In 1989, Boris Yeltsin was on a diplomatic visit to Texas. He wanted to see every day American life so he asked to stop at at a grocery store. The soviets of course would have prepared a potemkin village for such a visit, and he suspected Americans might try the same thing, so he specifically wanted to arrive unannounced at a random unprepared grocery store. He was absolutely shocked at the abundance and variety available in a random small town grocery store. This experience undermined his faith in communism and he later became the first president of post-soviet Russia.
This story absolutely mentally booty-blasted every soviet on the planet. An entire generation of embarrassment that they've been fighting shower arguments against ever since. 35 years of cope and seethe. They just can't get over it.
The issue as I see it is that people have this conception of quality of life for the "third world" that is at least 30 years out of date. That you can go to a grocery store in a "poor country" and have about the same experience as if you do so in the US. Yes it is the Capitol City* and therefore wealth and infrastructure is concentrated there. Even so, that is something I believe a lot of people in the West don't expect.
That affluence was one of the big selling points to Western Liberal Democracy™, and we we were told that affluence made the downsides worth it. Well now we see that certain other countries have that affluence available but without the downsides. So now we start to wonder why exactly we have to put up with all these downsides when other countries get the affluence (albeit to a lesser extent) without the downsides.
If we're so much wealthier than Russia, how much more able ought we be to "have our cake and eat it, too"?
Pretty sure Russia has a lot of downsides as well. ;)
Those downsides apparently don't include "Someone tries to push you in front of a subway train while you're waiting for it in a graffiti-filled station that smells like piss and shit" while in one of their major cities.
But again, why can't in these regards we do these things at least as well as Russia does them, without their downsides? Western Liberal Democracy™, we are told, is supposed to enable this. But it clearly doesn't.
Pretty sure the subways in Moscow or other metropolitan areas are also shit shows. ;)
Why are you talking like that?
I don't pretend to know much about Moscow's metro but I've ridden the trains in some American cities and compared to that it seems like night and day. (and that's ignoring their glorious architecture)
I was once subscribed to the subreddit 'Subwaycreatures'. Moscow wasn't immune to the plague.
Yeahhh bragging about how food costs 4x less in Russia when you are earning 4x less isn't the "gotcha" about sanctions Tucker thinks it is.
I think the lack of minorities was the point, without directly saying it.
It wasn't just the store, he showed a subway, and the countryside. And he stressed that they didn't know why things were different in Russia while showing a slide show of white people.
Wow and I was just making comparisons to 'against the grain'.
He's clearly acting like a rube. They have Aldi where he's from, it's damn near the same thing with the carts.
I don't think Tucker's ever been poor enough to need Aldi.
When I first went to Aldi, I was just as amazed by this cart system as he was.
It's German, pretty common over there.
I don't really get ALDI, but it apparently has a fan base.
"we were always at war with eurasia"