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This is false and for some reason repeated over and over again on the internet. Argentina was never a rich country and at its highest point in per-capita wealt
by Daishiman 2y ago
This is false and for some reason repeated over and over again on the internet.
Argentina was never a rich country and at its highest point in per-capita wealth most of it was concentrated in a few land-owning oligarch families while the rest of the population lives in the abject poverty that was common in the rest of the Americas at the time.
- astrodust 2y agoSo not unlike America during the robber baron era!
- 23B1 2y agowhich robber baron era ¬_¬
- Shawnecy 2y ago> The massive wave of European immigration they promoted—second only to the United States'—led to a near-reinvention of Argentine society and economy that by 1908 had placed the country as the seventh wealthiest[65] developed nation[66] in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina
- Daishiman 2y agoThe data uses the Maddison database, which is incomplete and imprecise. https://chequeado.com/ultimas-noticias/javier-milei-la-argentina-arranco-el-siglo-xx-siendo-el-pais-mas-rico-del-mundo-y-hoy-esta-en-el-puesto-140-al-tipo-de-cambio-paralelo/ https://chequeado.com/ultimas-noticias/javier-milei-la-argen...
- rayiner 2y agoThat’s not accurate. For example, Argentina’s infant mortality rate in 1915 was 134 per 1,000, similar to France and lower than the US.
- Daishiman 2y agoThis information uses what are considered archeological time series that are not precise enough to derive direct comparisons between countries.