In your opinion is Norway a Socialist country?

[Volum]

Here's hoping!

Now if i could just get the US to invade Canada......

 

[Eukaryote]

Of course it is working for them, and Sweden too. It generally works with a small, rich, low-density homogenous population.

What's you're reasoning behind this claim?

Not saying it would work for you or me, just saying it works for them.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Volum, you have a link to that list of yours?

 

[Volum]

Volum, you have a link to that list of yours?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Thanks

The Netherlands is 6th, 3 places up. Since the first 5 are stagnating ... I see great potential.

I can't seem to find Belgium in that list. Maybe Phil can help me find it

 

[Yeekim]

Thanks

The Netherlands is 6th, 3 places up. Since the first 5 are stagnating ... I see great potential.

I can't seem to find Belgium in that list. Maybe Phil can help me find it

They are number 17. I recommend Ctrl+F option for such problems in future.
Nice to see Estonia has narrowly beaten Cuba ... and Russia... not so narrowly

@Ecofarm: I can get small, rich, and homogeneous. But why low-density population?

 

[Ecofarm]

The low density precedes rich in most cases. It allows for a generous disbursement of natural resources. A country can be small, rich and homogenous but if it is high density it will not stay that way long.

Check out the pop density in Sweden and Norway.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

They are number 17. I recommend Ctrl+F option for such problems in future.

You must have missed my earlier conversation with Phil. Sort of an inside joke

 

[philippe]

You must have missed my earlier conversation with Phil. Sort of an inside joke

I blame the wallons, that is what we all do.

still, who knows the dutch haven't been doing some fraud on it.

after all, as my great-grandfather said: "if you make a deal with a Dutch man and he hasn't screwed you over, it's cause he forgot."

 

[Ecofarm]

Last year when the Belgian government disbanded for the 4th or 5th time, didn't they officially become Welch?

 

[philippe]

Last year when the Belgian government disbanded for the 4th or 5th time, didn't they officially become Welch?

sexy.

Spoiler :

 

[Yeekim]

The low density precedes rich in most cases. It allows for a generous disbursement of natural resources. A country can be small, rich and homogenous but if it is high density it will not stay that way long.

Check out the pop density in Sweden and Norway.

Natural resources aren't quite only way to become rich. Think Monaco or Singapore. Also, low density of population creates very high per capita costs for infrastructure and usually makes running a state more expensive overall.

 

[RedRalph]

We're 5th, and I hate this country... I can only imagine how it must be in countries way down the bootm

 

[Ecofarm]

Natural resources aren't quite only way to become rich. Think Monaco or Singapore. Also, low density of population creates very high per capita costs for infrastructure and usually makes running a state more expensive overall.

Dude, noone's density is TOO LOW. Lower density = richer country, as resources (of whatever sort) must be divided. Now, if you want to divide resources equally and actually get something per person then your denominator better be pretty small.

Plot GDP per cap against pop density. The coorelation is unmistakable. Given other measurements and factors in analysis, we can see causation not just coorelation.

 

[philippe]

Dude, noone's density is TOO LOW. Lower density = richer country, as resources (of whatever sort) must be divided. Now, if you want to divide resources equally and actually get something per person then your denominator better be pretty small.

better tell Mongolia.

 

[Ecofarm]

I was referring to 1st world countries. There's plenty of poor third worlders with low density.

Remember: rich, low-density, small population and homogenous.

Under those conditions (all of them - not some), socialism has proven effective.

 

[potatokiosk]

Dude, noone's density is TOO LOW. Lower density = richer country, as resources (of whatever sort) must be divided. Now, if you want to divide resources equally and actually get something per person then your denominator better be pretty small.

Plot GDP per cap against pop density. The coorelation is unmistakable. Given other measurements and factors in analysis, we can see causation not just coorelation.

If there were only a few people in existence, would they live a better lifestyle than people living now?

 

[Riffraff]

Dude, noone's density is TOO LOW. Lower density = richer country, as resources (of whatever sort) must be divided. Now, if you want to divide resources equally and actually get something per person then your denominator better be pretty small.

Plot GDP per cap against pop density. The coorelation is unmistakable. Given other measurements and factors in analysis, we can see causation not just coorelation.

Compare and contrast, then come back...

GDP/capita

population density

 

[Ecofarm]

You lost context. 1st world.

If there were only a few people in existence, would they live a better lifestyle than people living now?

Do you think 7b is sustainable? Even if China begins to consume like Americans?

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I looked but I couldn't find a graph plotting both and I'm not about to make one - so feel free to assume I'm wrong.

 

[Riffraff]

You lost context. 1st world.

They are all in those lists...

Plenty of examples of rich countries with low population densities. Even more examples of rich countries with high population densities. Nothing to support a correlation and less than nothing to support a causation.

I'll assume you're wrong, because I actually looked at the numbers...