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age old bureaucracy, coupled with a very hierarchical mindset (the spanish monarchy protocol was famous for its complexity) - what do you expect? as david land
by pinaceae 15y ago
age old bureaucracy, coupled with a very hierarchical mindset (the spanish monarchy protocol was famous for its complexity) - what do you expect?
as david landes notes in his quite brilliant book, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, exactly this mindset ruined Spain, Latin and South America. While the USA took off like a rocket.
if you think that modern times have no relation to the past come visit spain and try to get internet installed in your flat. colleagues in barcelona fought for 12 months...
- eduardo_f 15y agoI live in NY and the situation is much worse here than in the cities I've lived in in Spain (Madrid and Jerez). Spain's internet and cell coverage is generally better.
- motxilo 15y ago"if you think that modern times have no relation to the past come visit spain and try to get internet installed in your flat. colleagues in barcelona fought for 12 months..." Really? If we tend to generalize out of just one example, then yes, getting internet installed in Spain is a PITA. Now, I will give you "my" example: my (stateside) boss just arrived a couple of months ago here to Barcelona and he did not have any sort of problem with his connection setup. Hence, by the same only-on-example-generalization-syndrome we may conclude that getting internet installed in Spain is painless. Not to mention the misleading correlation between having your internet set up in a country and its developmental status. Cheers