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So what's wrong with being bought off? People in Kuwait have it very well.
by throwaway284721 7y ago
So what's wrong with being bought off? People in Kuwait have it very well.
- pytester 7y agoIn the 17th century Bolivia was considered the richest country in the Americas because of the Potosi silver mine while the eastern seaboard of America was basically a poverty stricken nowhere. Now Bolivia is the poorest country in the Americas and the US is the richest. This is basically why. The answer is - it works fine until the resource price drops or you run out of it. Kuwait may be fat and content now but it has a dark future ahead of it once they stop being able to live off foreign cash.
- dredmorbius 7y agoNauru's birdshit apocalypse. https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/10/world/a-pacific-island-nation-is-stripped-of-everything.html https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/10/world/a-pacific-island-na...