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Well, to be fair, anywhere the Habsburgs ruled is like this because that's the way their empire worked. You could only get rich by exploiting others or engaging
by Vivtek 13y ago
Well, to be fair, anywhere the Habsburgs ruled is like this because that's the way their empire worked. You could only get rich by exploiting others or engaging in corruption - or be born into it because your ancestors did that.
- jvm 13y ago> anywhere the Hapsburgs ruled ... which is why Austria and the Netherlands are so poor and backwards??
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- flexie 13y agoNah. Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Northern Spain, Northern Italy. Those are really wealthy and quite efficient places. And most of those have been so for decades if not centuries. If the EU consisted of just those places it would probably be as productive per capita as California.
- jotm 13y agoI think it was the communism - it was a really bad economic system that was so out of touch with the reality of human beings and the past thousand years that people had no other choice but to engage in corruption (bypassing the system).
- dsego 13y agoIt's not that simple. To read more about the economy there visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Socialist_Federa...
- mietek 13y agoThere's the communist revolution, which gave power to people who were not fit to wield it. There's the dekulakization, which liquidated millions of people who knew what they were doing. Then there's the forced collectivisation...