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Successful at making them irrelevant in a global economy perhaps. What major innovations and technology are coming out of Vienna now? The best case seems to be
by hueving 10y ago
Successful at making them irrelevant in a global economy perhaps. What major innovations and technology are coming out of Vienna now? The best case seems to be that tourism stays busy enough to keep the taxes flowing in to sustain the entitlement programs.
- riffraff 10y agois there any other country with less than 10M people and no natural resources which is more relevant than Austria in the global economy? Possibly Switzerland, but not by much.
- krrrh 10y agoDenmark?
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- 1337biz 10y agoHong Kong?
- oblio 10y agoOne could argue that having on of the world's best ports near the world's #2 economy counts as a natural resource :)
- maverick_iceman 10y agoThere are so many obvious counterexamples to your claim as others have pointed out. Mongolia was and is a tiny nation but had one of the largest empires the world has ever seen.
- ohwello 10y agoSo the examples are an ancient empire which is now in poverty, and two states with great port cities?
- holri 10y agoThe best level of living in the world is the best innovation I can think of.
- pjc50 10y ago"You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." -- Orson Welles' monologue in The Third Man. Which was set in post-war Vienna.
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