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Come on, those are german cities/areas. These cities have harvested the best talent from the total german population (80 million) to come up so successful. Cyp
by return0 14y ago
Come on, those are german cities/areas. These cities have harvested the best talent from the total german population (80 million) to come up so successful. Cyprus is 1/80th of that. And Germany has a huge science and engineering tradition, it didn't exactly form ex nihilo.
I'm not saying it's not desirable to be well diversified, it's just unrealistic to do it overnight (or over-decade for that matter)
- claudius 14y agoActually, Hamburg and Bremen are likely to be the least successful states in Germany with the larger southern states (Bavaria, e.g.) usually taking the lead when it comes to economic strength and wealth. And while there might be some sort of engineering tradition, that doesn’t mean said tradition is a prerequisite to form a diverse economy. The real lesson here is probably that, while size is not a sufficient prerequisite for economic stability, it might well be a necessary one.