There's an anti-Brexit/UK-doomster commenter on the FT who regularly points out that at the start of the 20th century Argentina was in the top 10 for GDP per ca

There's an anti-Brexit/UK-doomster commenter on the FT who regularly points out that at the start of the 20th century Argentina was in the top 10 for GDP per capita but it was all destroyed by mismanagement, incompetence and corruption