Are there Poor Countries?

Annurca Apples wrote:

John Adam's and Alexander Hamilton, who played important roles in structuring the US constitution had a good understanding of human nature, and the propensity of people to become tyrants should opportunity present itself. Hence the terms "checks and balances" which is often heard in US political discourse. John Adam's in particular understood that the population should not be trusted to make important decisions via referendum, such as Brexit. Look at the destruction which will be caused by Brexit by allowing the electorate to make the decision.

Yea democracy is a dreadful idea, thankfully we don't actually have that kind of governance

Ireland until very recently was a poor country. In 19th century the worst human tragedy in Western Europe was the Irish famine where 1 million starved to death and 1 million emigrated. In 1920s the Irish free state was founded and the Brits took all the money out of the country. There was very little capital in Ireland. There was the odd scheme like ESB works on Shannon but in the 20s 30s and 40s Ireland was economic wasteland. It was getting worse . In 1950s 100000s of Irish people were emigrating especially to English cities of London Manchester liverpool and Birmingham. The 50s was a lowpoint.
In 1960s Lemass and Tk Whitaker starting to change the mindset of government thinking to a more outward approach. But throughout 70s and 80s Ireland was still the sickman of Europe.

Then in a generation everything changed. Joining the EEC in 1973 was an important step. But another factor was the gamechanger. No country in Western Europe has undergone such a transformation in last 35 years as Ireland. 35 years ago Ireland was an economic, social and cultural basket case. Now it is a liberal country, which is now per capita one of richest countries in the world. The 11th richest country in the World per capta. Why did this happen ? US multinationals. Which is scary because if these companies where to leave in the future ( and it would take maybe a massive depression in the US or maybe US administration that found a way to force companies out of Ireland back home to the US ) if this happened Ireland wud become Detriot overnight. Yes Ireland still has many problems like eg Health system , homelessness , bad planning etc. But overall it is much richer then it was 30 years ago.

Three stats show how multinationals have helped Ireland no longer being a poor country.

1 US multi nationals have invested more into Ireland then into China , India , Russia and Brazil all combined.
2 The country US mulitnationals have invested more in the world per capita is Ireland.
3 US multinationals have invested 450 billion dollars in Ireland.

Theres ur reason , The Brits left took all their capital and money . We were poor before the Brits left , and it continued for decades after they left , if anything things worsened. This countries fortunes upturn when US multinationals come to this shore.

Annurca Apples wrote:

I'd advocate for a system similar to the US.

Course you would, plutocracy disguised as democracy, no thanks!

YFlyer wrote:

Greek are lazy Fcukers.

According to data, just as productive as the rest of us, it's clearly obvious they were thrown under the bus to protect plutocratic interests, particularly of European financial institutions, similar to ourselves, but more so