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Central African Republic factoids from Wiki: > Civil war since 2012. The civil war perpetuated the country's poor human rights record. > Among the ten poorest
by 323 5y ago
Central African Republic factoids from Wiki:
> Civil war since 2012. The civil war perpetuated the country's poor human rights record.
> Among the ten poorest countries in the world, with the lowest GDP per capita at purchasing power parity in the world as of 2017.
> The second-lowest level of human development (only ahead of Niger), ranking 188 out of 189 countries.
> The lowest inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), ranking 150th out of 150 countries.
> The unhealthiest country as well as the worst country in which to be young.
- divs1210 5y ago
- hiq 5y agoYou'd have a point if these were cumulative, but e.g. there are several examples of companies which started using cryptocurrencies but gave up on them eventually.
- generalizations 5y agoEven with several such examples, it can still be cumulative.
- hiq 5y agoUsage can still be increasing indeed, or not. Just saying that OP's comment makes little effort in demonstrating that.
- notch656a 5y agoAn entire country and you have not one good thing to say?
- kurthr 5y agoThe political and economic elite are highly effective and stripping the people and land of their value and dignity?
- nwah1 5y agoGiven the headline, that almost seems redundant to say.
- aaaaaaaaata 5y agoBecause there's nothing of value left to use as backing for fiat, and they must now rely on digital cash to move on with life?
- robonerd 5y agoI can't help but notice you haven't volunteered anything good to say about the country either. I went looking and there isn't much to find, on wikipedia anyway. They have some substantial mineral resources, but diamonds are the only resource being developed. They get much of their power from hydroelectric, but that's because they import all their petroleum on truck and barge; the CAR is one of the least electrified countries in the world. They have substantial arable land, but most of the population survives on subsistence farming and bush meat; 45% of the population experiences high acute food insecurity. Efforts to raise livestock are hampered by tropical parasites. Most of their economy is "off the books" (smuggling, untaxed, unreported) trade of diamonds, ivory, bushmeat and alcohol.
- notch656a 5y ago>I can't help but notice you haven't volunteered anything good to say about the country either. Not saying anything about a country isn't anything like putting a bunch of bullet points to explain a country while saying nothing positive about it whatsoever. I can't even begin on the stupidity of comparing not saying anything at all about the CAR (me) with putting a big list of "factoids" and omitting any positive thing at all about the country (such as they are incredibly ethnically rich with ~80+ ethnicities and languages). It's the stereotypical English speaker on the internet shitting on another nation with a laundry list of facts about a country while offering absolutely 0, ZERO, point of positive element about another nation. Of course few in the CAR speak English and the majority likely do not even have regular internet access, so one can easily take the cowardly position of shitting on the negatives while simultaneously espousing none of the positives with little fear of any push-back from those in the CAR with something positive to say.
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