How the fuck is the West so rich

How the fuck is the West so rich.

>pillage and exploit other countries for hundreds of years
>use that wealth to amass more wealth

It's pretty simple

Follow good economic policies for a longer time than anyone else

Most countries only started opening their markets after the fall of communism in the 90s so they are still catching up

favorable geography for both colonial ventures and early industrialization

except not all the green countries did that

Proud to be Western desu

(unlike Moortugal hehe)

>poortugal

Why is Eastern Europe so poor?

>poortugal

Which ones did not?

You do realize that tiny sub-1 million tax havens do not count, right?

Or is Qatar proof that Arabs are the masterrace?

>favorable geography for both colonial ventures and early industrialization
Absolutely wrong.

>France
Yes.
>Britain + former British colonies
Yes.
>Netherlands/Belgium
Yes.
>Japan
Yes.
>Germany
>Nordics
Not really as far as I know, but they still benefit from dirt cheap third world labor.

communism

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Finland
Switzerland
S. Korea
Taiwan

prove me wrong fagboi

>notmuchmoneytugal

shut up chink

>take over some shitty country, use force to get resources for below market value with private companys
>use those resoucres for industry and sel it back to poor country which no longer has any home industries because it can't compete and other countries are kept out with protectionism
>new upper and middle class massively incentivised for innovation keeps making new shit
>decolonise happens but because of the disparity the same stuff keeps happening
>move manufacturing to poor countries to pay them less but profits still stay where they're managed from the west
>most of country becomes skilled educated workers or service the ones that are

The Slav lacks a soul, the Slav lacks feelings, the Slav lacks humanity. The Slav is nothing more than swine ready for butcher, no other purpose in life but to die.

you are assuming all western countries are the UK
How did that work for Germany when all we had were a bunch of worthless colonies that we had

>t. Alboroach
Slavs literally invented the soul.
Fucking brainlet

It's another episode of "look at how portugal is only so slightly worse off than all the other 1st world countries"

It's another episode of

>Lisbon , fucking Portugal since the 1500's

That's what you get for Soviet tier centralisation.

The Soviet fucking union.

Piracy but on a global, industrial scale.

What the fuck Iceland

Wrong see

This entire idea that colonies were really profitable and that West Europe was dirt poor before establishing them really needs to fucking die. It's not even logical let alone historical

they're all pretty interlocked, its way easier to get shit to Germany which is densely populated than mzgnz land in eastern Europe
Prussia only industrialised what 70-100 years after the uk anyway though and did it insanely quickly
i mean Australia didnt do it as well just inherited it at the late stage

>You do realize that tiny sub-1 million tax havens do not count, right?
Why wouldn't' they? They are Western, correct?
>Or is Qatar proof that Arabs are the masterrace?
just going by all the countries/territories which aren't red and their status during the 19th and Early 20th century
>Japan =Former Imperial Power, East Asian
>South Korea = Former colony, East Asian
>Taiwan = Former Colony, East Asian
>Hong Kong = Former colony, East Asian
>Singapore = Former colony, East Asian & Southeast Asian
>Australia = Former Colony, European
>New Zealand = Former Colony, European
>United Arab Emirates = Former Colony, Arab
>Kuwait = Former Colony, Arab
>Israel = Imperial Power, Mediterranean
>Cyprus= Former Colony, Mediterranean
>Greece =Former Colony, Mediterranean
>Italy = Brief Imperial Power, Mediterranean
>Malta= Former Colony, Mediterranean
>Switzerland = Small Neutral State, European
>Austria = Former Imperial Power, European
>Spain = Former Imperial Power, Mediterranean
>Portugal = Former Imperial Power, Mediterranean
>France = Former Imperial Power, European
>Belgium =Former Imperial Power, European
>Netherlands = Former Imperial Power, European
>Luxembourg = Small Neutral State, European
>Denmark = Technically imperial but more similar to a small neutral State, European
>Norway = Former Colony, European
>United Kingdom = Imperial Power, European
>Ireland = Former Colony, European
>Finland = Former Colony, European
>Canada = Former Colony, European
>United States = Imperial Power, European

You know having money to waste it on consumerist shit that dumbs you down or dying for Israel in middle east or getting kicked by soulless parents after 18 or being anti social basement dweller surrounded by fake smiles and people everywhere is not what i would call having a soul.

I forgot
>Iceland = Former Colony, European

So let's see.

Countries who had colonies

>Britain
>France
>Germany
>Italy
>Portugal
>Belgium
>Netherlands

That doesn't explain the rest though.

So the argument of colonies is a stupid one.

This list is /pol tier retarded

>>United Kingdom = Imperial Power, European
>>France = Former Imperial Power, European
made my willy hard reading that

>Anglo calls me a soulless cunt with no feelings
Sure, Mr. Fake smile. At least we can into love and friendship

what the fuck iceland?? everyone a businessman there?

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>I think Russians are subhuman barbarians and have no regard for their lives because they don't have any regard for human life

>a soldier
>talking about some serious shit
Could you just show me an opinion of the American phylosophy

We're western and we're not that rich yet (Eastern Europe tier :^(

Fuck I have so much respect for the Finns and Icelanders, it hurts.

They were given far far less chances than us, got invaded in WW2 are still much better than us.

>We're western

japan does that for less than 40 years

Why are we shit in every single map wtf

>Switzerland
The swiss are the scum of the earth. Look at Nestlé. They take free fresh water sources away from people in poor countries, bottled it and resell it to the same poor people at a much higher price.
Fuck Nestlé. And i bet they are far from being the only company that does things like that.

No one is denying that _some_ western countries benefited from exploitation. However, it does not follow from that fact alone, that exploitation is the primary contributing factor in western countries spectacularly surpassing the rest of the world.

Not only is the model naive, but it outright ignores the fact that exploitation of weaker tribes, people, countries and so on, is hardly a phenomena unique to western countries. Furthermore it ignores geography, culture, genes, system of government, economic system and so on and so forth. It's an incomplete model that at best show some positive correlation -- all the while ignoring mountains of unknown, potentially confounding, variables.

Juice, exercise and plenty of push ups

money =/ happiness

Benefitted from being in good relations

>shitugal

This
Honestly Iceland, Norway, Sweden. Ireland, Finland and Denmark should pay back the countries they colonized

>that exploitation is the primary contributing factor in western countries spectacularly surpassing the rest of the world.

It is since Europe was already an established market and new lands were sought out in trade and later conquest to establish new ones fir various purposes.

by good relations you mean deploying their multi-nationals to nations that are desestabilized by the US.

I think the cure for your stupidity is to die in a ditch.

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This makes me feel like shit. Between every 50th - 20th person here is a millionaire, meanwhile I have 8 grand in savings

this all looks like a big shitshow to me, i really doubt every 10th here is a millionaire

Wealth counts everything friends. Money, titles, houses, investments.

oh then that makes sense because the houses are fucking expensive lel

Better organizations

Vancouver is a city of millionaires.

But you have to own it. You can't still be paying it to the bank for example.

At least it was last time I checked.

Also how expensive are houses in North America? Here it could go from 250.000 in a small city to absurd prices in bigger ones.

$2,300,000 please.

Fuck me you weren't joking, I did a reverse search on the image.

What the fuck man.

Here you can buy this for that 2.2 million Euros.

Finland had a colony
Switzerland is a statelet that benefited off of jew gold.
South Korea is not green you fucking idiot
Not a country

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>Finland had a colony

>Finland had a colony
are you seriously gonna say that finlands colony si what brought them propserity?

And by the way, what colony would that be?

>binland
>prosperity

>21% of american children live in families with incomes below the federal poverty threshold
very well america, very well, HOWEVER

Steel-cut oats

imperialism

WTF Islandia? How?

How come no one mentions the colonies of Sweden and the Netherlands on North America? Notice their peculiar shapes

Russia must be very wealthy then

Because that is where all the big businesses are based. Those based in India, China etc. are outweighed by the massive population of those countries.

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River-shaped?

it is wealthier than sweden

>The Virgin Swedish flaccid colony
>The Chad Dutch raging boner new world

>Sweden has shape of a penis
>Sweden's colonies are penis-shaped
Why so gay? What's up with the obsession with cocks?

>However, it does not follow from that fact alone, that exploitation is the primary contributing factor in western countries spectacularly surpassing the rest of the world.
It does. The free market and international trade entirely dependant upon this reality.
You'd be paying ten times as much as you do for things without dirt cheap foreign labour. Corporations have been the same with the service industry to an extent as well.

>You'd be paying ten times as much as you do for things without dirt cheap foreign labour.
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA

if anything those countries are exploiting the working and middle class of the West.

>marxist
every fucking time

It's about country-over-country level of imperialism.

> The new world is not western

Are you retarded? It's cause the US sent them the most paper dollars.

You seriously think Europe should have that much money after 2 world wars? Or that Israel should be green despite having almost zero resources whatsoever? Use your fucking brain you retarded moortuguese faggot.

boy I wonder how far this goalpost will move by itself

Portugal is one of my favorite countries, quit complaining.
Not even muh heritage, it's just a great fucking country.