/lit/ - Literature

>>15854563
Man, you're so close to putting it all together, but something in your brain just glitches. Ask yourself, how can half-starved Norks put together a nuke and an ICBM delivery system?

>>14304453
>Brains good
>Communism bad
>Oil good
>Tax haven leach good
God! Why does it have to be so complicated! How could anyone make sense of the world! It's so terribly hard!

>>13627487
How many generations does it take to recover from slavery? 5? 10? 100? Bearing in mind African Americans are some of the richest people on the planet.

>>13203223
>But it has, hasn't it? The gulf states (the richer states in gdp) have IQ levels far above that of many African countries,
Your very own map shows gulf states that have massive oil revenues have similar IQs to gulfs states/north african countries which are poor as shit.
>If race and GDP were really correlated, how do you explain Argentina?
Race and GDP are not correlated. IQ and GDP are. Other than IQ there are two big factors you can use to boost your GDP - natural resources (dig them up and flog em) and becoming a tax haven. There are numerous examples of low IQ countries doing each - e.g. Botswana, Panama, Saudi Arabia etc. You can also handicap yourself by going full communism: North Korea, Cuba, China, Russia, the rest of Eastern Europe.

Argentina started out pretty well, it had a GDP per capita in 1900 near equal to that of America. But a few coups, some socialism, mass migration of its intelligentsia and it's fucked up. IQ is not a static thing in a population. It can change. Being a white country does not guarantee an IQ of 100, nor does it guarantee you won't go full communism. Prime example is West Virginia. Little economic opportunity for high IQ people, they all leave to work else where leaving behind a residual population that has an average IQ of around 95, the dumbest whites in America. This is happening in a lot of post industrial areas, which is why it's so hard to restore them.

Ignoring intelligence means you will be forever expecting Papua New Guinea to suddenly take off in an economic explosion like South Korea, or for the next Einstein to emerge from some hill tribe in Kenya. The world must be a perpetually confusing place.

>>12786646
Ways to guarantee being a shithole:
>Be communist
Ways to not be a shithole:
>Be Smart
>Have oil
>Be a tax haven

>>12105490
Some fascinating patterns.