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I think when everyone has access to essential services and opportunities for personal development, it leads to a more productive and resilient society.

• snapplebobapple 3y ago
  You can look at the USA vs Canada to prove that that isn't a necessary condition for a more productive, resilient society. Canada has more equal access to essential services and opportunities for personal development and it's junk vs the USA on productivity and resiliency. You could look at Daron acemoglu's book "The Narrow Corridor" for much more likely to be necessary conditions for a more productive and resilient society. I would add a deep and wide capital market to provide the funding engine to new ideas to the strong state kept in check by strong society (which in itself is kept in check by being multipolar) because how junk Canada's capital market is has personally very negatively affected multiple business ventures I've been involed in to the point I don't fund stuff in Canada anymore no matter how good it looks on paper.