On 2023-11-27, Arelor <PALANTIR!Arelor@vert.synchro.net> wrote:
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> Re: Re: what if biden dies
> By: hollowone to Arelor on Sun Nov 26 2023 07:46 am
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>> I believe West is more transforming than dying, but time will show.
>
> Once you are at your highest, any road you take will lead you down.
>
> Western Europe at least has transitioned to become service economies. Nobody
> wants to dig ore in a mine when you can sell coffee in a pub.
>
> The issue is if you have a stash of money you use to buy industrialized
> products and prime matter from elsewhere, and your economy is based on local
> services, you are screwed, because you will end up running out of money your
> providers want to accept eventually.
>
> It doesn't help that a lot of the services we run are artificial or are
> services created in response to limitations we have created. A lot of
> accounting offices exist only because it is nigh impossible to navigate ever
> changing tax regulations.
>
> I am not optimistic because we have historical precendents of what happens whena culture becomes so rich it can make other cultures work for them in exchange
> of money while the rich culture sits on their lazy asses. It usually ends
> badly.
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In Spain for instance there was a big industry of coal, but burning it has no future.
In the Southern coast everyone and his cat wants a job related to bars/tourism.
We'll see how 'well' does that work with the climate change. And no, the North
of Spain is not a tourist haven because, well, the Brits and Germans don't want to get
the literal same climate they got in their countries.

I wish my country was more like Torres Quevedo/Ram�n y Cajal and less than a real-life RPG
of a Monopoly board where the main industries are Tourism and Construction related.
Because in a few years, the Mediterranean coast in Spain will have hurricanes similar
to the Florida ones in the US.

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