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I don't know why chat can't do it
you really think they can have a 10% growth in construction (off the top of my head) every single year forever? Construction can certainly be a big part of their GDP forever, there's no question, it's the rate of growth and percentage of GDP that trouble me
How can can you prove a TNC shaped hole in your heart?
some wild-haired guy, reeking of BO and moonshine, comes up and starts yelling about timecube
chat stops to have a 30 minute argument
They are occupied by the extended family of the grand poobah.
not true!
they are also a great source of cheap labor and have other exploitable natural resources! which we would have exploited if we hadn't found oil.
hello hi yes
"it's a common thing for people with aptitude at school to be told they're smart and then have trouble with the effort part of the equation"
hello yes
Granted my understanding is thoroughly casual, but if I understand correctly Japan is the poster child for the bolded.
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fwiw after a couple of years of doing this, greece stopped even trying to cook the books via accounting trickery and outright made up numbers, principally in order to game EU membership criteria
swoon
It is widely known that Baron Michael of Bay is a cad but what to do about Prince Willy? He will king soon!
I dunno that it's really an imminent danger to the food supply but it's pretty not great
I will never eat in public again!
by this definition of sustainable, no country is sustainable. look at every western country's burst of growth in healthcare/education.
At least hate lets you feel something.
a bit hard to say, due to the japanese imperial period
the more clear-cut case is post-ww2
this gives you the asian tigers and asian newly-industrialized countries
Yeah and this way you are spared the odour. It's win-win.
yes greetings sir
"these people are able to overcome the effort issue by ______"
please and thank you
well there you have it. An "elite" that does not mean "rich". Since just being rich isn't enough to get to the top. It means part of some exclusive elitist group. Incredibly exclusive in this case.
look man
without the fear that you might get stabbed by a screwdriver
there's nothing stopping you from really engaging with crazy
have you ever argued about timecube?
its the best arguement.
But then you have people commenting on people commenting on annoying discussions.
My God.
WHAT HAVE I BECOME
I told a Brit au pair friend of mine that he was there, and she hopped on the train but he left before she got there.
The prince of lizards will revenge himself
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Like, I can't say Rwanda would have been better if it was never a colony, but the way things played out certainly wasn't that great. Likewise how would Liberia have been if America never extracted vast portions of Africa for slave labor and then shipped a bunch back several generations later, uneducated and illiterate? Who knows!
Need a time machine
I'll concede that blaming the west for the state of every third world country is overly broad and silly though, we can do it on a case by case basis for some things
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Post-ww2 was the reference point I was working from. (Way too much History Channel, :P )
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The Elite are The Rich.
If not for delicious oil money they would not be The Elite.
I guess he is technically correct, but mostly full of shit?
*shrug*
I think your mistaking money = power which then becomes money = elitism. Which is wrong.
Money never equals to elitism, at least the non-American sense of the word, because it isn't about how much you have its about who you are. A peasant cow herder can win the lottery and become a millionare but that will never remove the fact that he and his descendents are nothing but cow herders. Money might allow you to buy things but it will never remove who you are.
The example of Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Shah is clear cut in this case. If you didn't know Reza Shah was nothing but a soldiers who aspired to be a Shah. He was entirely not from a bloodline that came from kings and there is currently, at least to my current knowledge, a search going on based on a small factoid that the Pahlavi name that he adopted was bought from someone who was an actual Pahlavi.
In the Middle East the monied are the true elites and there is no others who can compete with them within their domains, geo-political issues aside, thus people like the Imam of Yemen, the Saudi King or even the Jordan King are the true elites. Not only in the Middle east but you can see it in Morocco and Brunei where the Sultans are one of the most power and true elites in the world.
SKIPPY IS BLASPHEMY DOES NOT ACKNOWLEDGE 4 DAY SIMULTANEOUS ROTATION OF THE EARTH
there are a lot of deserts in the world; for some reason these generally remain poor states
he's just saying that monarchy is awesome
because he owns some minor title in some anatolian country no one's heard of
and, like, an ancestral fig orchard or something
posting on the PA forums is part of noblesse oblige, you see
it's not really that I'm annoyed by this particular instance
it's moreso, hey there is person x who is really irritating or whatever
and rather than just ignore x whenever s/he shows up, every time it's like NO HAY YOU ARE WRONG X LET ME TELL YOU
So, in what sense are they elite, other than that you say that they are?