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Originally Posted by mpolli
A few years ago in Nat'l Geographic I think, or maybe Scientific American, they had a world map, color coded by arable land (that stuff will grow in). There was almost a 100% correlation between arable land and wealth. Even in industrialized areas, there was a correlation to agriculture. So if you can't grow anything there then that is an issue.
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I don't agree. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Peru, Ecuador, all have very little land, but either used other resources or created new industries like Abu Dhabi and UAE.
On the flip side, most of Central America is poor and highly arable.
It's the will of the people and their tolerance for corruption or incompetence.
For example Michigan is very arable but poor, mostly because of the tolerance for corrupt leaders like Kwame Kilpatrick, the felon-mayor who lives in a gated community but only has 6.00/month to pay as disposable income on his restitution bill of $1,000,000.00.
Not to mention greedy leaders in the UAW, GM and Chrysler who ruined their companies and the state for personal gain.
Then there's the incompetence of the Michigan legislature.
I could go on and on. Instead I will say:
HA HA I don't care, my boss just sent me to ORLANDO for a week and it's sunny everywhere! I have left the dungeon-state!! Haven't been back in 25 years since I lived here.
