▪️This is so delusional. The idea that poor countries are actually rich, it’s just the people who are poor(!) is nonsense. The GDP per capita for Mexico is less than $14,000. For Brazil it’s $10k and Philippines just $4,150. That’s poor!
▪️The idea that real wealth comes from natural resources like timber and mining is also nonsense. The market cap of Nvidia is more than the entire GDP of Brazil, so is Apple and Amazon. Tesla’s is nearly as large as Mexico’s GDP and triple the Philippines.
▪️Real wealth comes from innovation and industrialization. South Korea and Hong Kong went from wretchedly poor to fairly wealthy in just a few decades not because they suddenly found natural resources, but because of capitalism. It’s also why much of Europe is now stagnant and actually quite poor compared to the US, they have little innovation.
▪️The reality is that the poorest countries are generally the least capitalist, and least economically free. They are not friendly to private business and often nationalize many industries. Which is why they are undeveloped, despite often having much potential. There was never some era in the past, prior to Europeans or capitalism, where they were rich.
It’s just so wild to see these movements see saw, it feels like just yesterday that conservatives were boycotting Disney and the left was gloating.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
