The Dark History Behind Your Tires WheelHouse
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Date: 2019-10-24
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Donut Media
Here's a correction for you guys: The majority of the Congo's rubber actually came from vines called Landolphia owariensis. These cannot be tapped like trees, instead they had to be slashed with a machete. The workers would let the latex liquid drip onto their arms and coagulate. After it hardened, they had to peel the latex off which would tear out the hair with it, and was very painful. The vines as a latex source were nowhere near as reliable as trees, because once you slashed the vines, that was it. The Congolese had to go deeper and deeper into the jungle to find more vines, and stood no chance of keeping up the quota.
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Here's a correction for you guys: The majority of the Congo's rubber actually came from vines called Landolphia owariensis. These cannot be tapped like trees, instead they had to be slashed with a machete. The workers would let the latex liquid drip onto their arms and coagulate. After it hardened, they had to peel the latex off which would tear out the hair with it, and was very painful. The vines as a latex source were nowhere near as reliable as trees, because once you slashed the vines, that was it. The Congolese had to go deeper and deeper into the jungle to find more vines, and stood no chance of keeping up the quota.
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doublestarsystem
Belgium added nothig to the history or science (No Grand victorious general, not even a small discovery in science, all Belgium did, is to reduce in slavery innocent men and women of Congo. Sometimes colonization (Like Great Britain and France) come with some sort of civilization for the colonized people, but i Belgium offered nothing to congolese. i mean NOTHING.
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Belgium added nothig to the history or science (No Grand victorious general, not even a small discovery in science, all Belgium did, is to reduce in slavery innocent men and women of Congo. Sometimes colonization (Like Great Britain and France) come with some sort of civilization for the colonized people, but i Belgium offered nothing to congolese. i mean NOTHING.
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Dan Z
So it's not a story about business and economics. It's about a guy who started his own GOVERNMENT and made slaves. Figures, only government could cause that much suffering. WW1 and WW2 German government, Mao Zedong killed 2045 million Chinese using the Chinese government. But we also see what happens when free markets get involved today and we have artificial rubber.
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So it's not a story about business and economics. It's about a guy who started his own GOVERNMENT and made slaves. Figures, only government could cause that much suffering. WW1 and WW2 German government, Mao Zedong killed 2045 million Chinese using the Chinese government. But we also see what happens when free markets get involved today and we have artificial rubber.
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Aram Mendoza
Are there any Congolese here who agrees with everything Nolan said about the tyranny that happened over 150 years ago? For my great grandparents here in the Philippines, yep. They were either beaten or shot by the Spaniards just to harvest anything. But, yeah. We all had forgiven the Spaniards.
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Are there any Congolese here who agrees with everything Nolan said about the tyranny that happened over 150 years ago? For my great grandparents here in the Philippines, yep. They were either beaten or shot by the Spaniards just to harvest anything. But, yeah. We all had forgiven the Spaniards.
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Marc Cabrera
I worked for Panasonic making batteries for Tesla, they absolutely do not only use north american materials, I was in material handling and was one of the first people to touch the materials after delivery, most of the stuff came from Taiwan and Japan
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I worked for Panasonic making batteries for Tesla, they absolutely do not only use north american materials, I was in material handling and was one of the first people to touch the materials after delivery, most of the stuff came from Taiwan and Japan
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edward bellamy
Great episode would have been good to mention that the main shift away from natural rubber was in WW2 when the USA was cut off from most of the worlds natural rubber supply because of the Japanese invasion of South East Asia.
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Great episode would have been good to mention that the main shift away from natural rubber was in WW2 when the USA was cut off from most of the worlds natural rubber supply because of the Japanese invasion of South East Asia.
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okay
Weird how you never mentioned the corruption of the Congolese government both in the past, colonial context, as well as the current context in which they allow child labour in those mines. which you also didnt mention.
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Weird how you never mentioned the corruption of the Congolese government both in the past, colonial context, as well as the current context in which they allow child labour in those mines. which you also didnt mention.
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Jamie Reid
Think a lot of people forget that this was like 200 years ago. They were extremely different times. Nowadays we would never think of doing something so horrid, but back then people didn't think the way we do.
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Think a lot of people forget that this was like 200 years ago. They were extremely different times. Nowadays we would never think of doing something so horrid, but back then people didn't think the way we do.
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Michael steffens
So Leopold waited at least 6-8 years to harvest rubber trees. That is commitment. If you want to improve the performance of your car you should start at the tires. That is some terrible advice.
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So Leopold waited at least 6-8 years to harvest rubber trees. That is commitment. If you want to improve the performance of your car you should start at the tires. That is some terrible advice.
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Joey Garcia
What about Fordlandia in Brazil for some more rubber history? The community that Ford built to harvest rubber from the rubber trees. But isn't the rubber in tires all synthetic now anyway?
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What about Fordlandia in Brazil for some more rubber history? The community that Ford built to harvest rubber from the rubber trees. But isn't the rubber in tires all synthetic now anyway?
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