Why Is Europe so well off today? It was wrecked during both world

Valuable human capital coupled with the financial capital provided by the USA with the Marshall Plan

>>2218074
Actually hard working people, strong middle class and total ignorance of most socialist laws everywhere but in the government. At least in Czech republic.Combine it with generally high level of education at industrial schools and voilá.
Not sure how much small-scale stealing matters, since everyone does it (if you don't steal from the state you're robbing your family).

It wasn't wrecked, it was boosted through war. Winning does that. That said, Europe lost its empires.

Only Germany was wrecked but it was rebuilt with help.

>>2218115
How exactly does that work though? wrecked tanks and planes dont improve living standards.

>>2218115
>Only Germany was wrecked
The most retarded thing I've seen on /his/.

Europe had older civilization still intact.

>>2218074
Mixture of several reasons.
>1
Relative peace since WW2
>2
Significant Aid from the United States specifically aimed at the recovery of the European economy to act as a bulwark against communism.
>3
The large scale discredit of autocratic forms of governments made the democracies in Europe much more stable than they were before the war
>4
the relative ease with which European nations were able to influence the petty dictators to the mutual benefit of the dictators and Western Nations.
>5
Relatively homogeneous societies and a lack of a permanent racial underclass for at the least the beginning part of the Era

white people are literally the mustard race

Not too spicy like hot sauce (Hispanics and blacks and Arabs), not too fattening like mayonnaise(jews and Asians), just right..

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>>2218074
>I live in Israel and Its definately economically worse in every way compared to western European and northern European countries
>after getting 10 million bucks from the US every day
I thought you jews were supposed to be good with money

Western countries are the collection points for the worlds gathered wealth. Add to this the high levels of infrastructure, transport networks, education and training of the populace, as well as a temperate, fertile climate. All of these things allow us to rebuild quickly.

>>2218412
Guess all the US bucks go to building settlements in the ex-Palestine territories.

>>2218544
>temperate, fertile climate

I wouldn't say this matters anymore since the poorest country in Europe is the most fertile and the most barren is the richest one.

Racial superiority of course. What else could it possibly be?

>>2218605
Favour of Gods

>>2218074
>europe
>well
Go to Serbia and see what's going on!

>>2218074
Yeah, they had an economic system emerge that allowed European society to prosper by parasitizing resources from the "devolping" world

>>2218599
When the local infrastructure is destroyed (no food, water, gas, etc), being able to pick food from the roadside or growing it in your garden can make a big difference to wether a population stays and rebuilds, tries to migrate or just starves to death. It may not generate much wealth, but it can effect a population's ability to survive and rebuild.

>>2218662
He specifically mentioned Northern and Western Europe, since the East was ravaged by Comunisms and civil wars.

>>2218710
How can we stop the ''rich-first-world'' countries treat us like shit and tell them to actually help us?

>>2218714
*treating

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>>2218714
join the EU

>>2218710
True communism has never been tried.
:^)

>>2218733
KEK
nope

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>>2218741
That's true, since Communism is by definition end-game utopia.

But why do you mention it? To derail the thread?

>>2218744
Well, then don't expect us to help you.

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>>2218756
scratch the 'help' thing, but when will rich countries stop treating poor countries like worthless shit?

>>2218552

No its basically a subsidy for the US defense industry. Israel gets 3 billion dollars (about 15% of their defense budget) from the US but they have to buy American stuff with it, subsiding US arm's companies when the U.S isn't at war or in need of new stuff.

>>2218733
Better yet, join the EEC. Easier to join. Not as much aid. But actually meeting the requirements will help your country develop on it's own.

>>2218761
Never

The weak must fear the strong

>>2218770
>weak must fear the strong
so...

>>2218783
You'll be treated like shit, until you are strong enough to stand up for yourself.

>>2218793
>until you are strong enough to stand up for yourself.
Will it need isolation to be strong enough?
Who will be the next shittiest president of Serbia?

>>2218744
Quick question.
Da li si Srbin?

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>>2218741
Well memed, my friend.

Well I personally buy into the Guns, Germs, and Steel argument. Europeans lucked out with their starting point and the rest is history. That being said, I do think there are certain European ideals and values (for a lack of a better term) that certainly helped Europeans develop thing like nation states and the western apparatus to consolidate wealth and so forth. Because I mean places like India and China also lucked out with their starting positions, however they failed to become as wealthy and powerful.

>>2218074
The rule of law and (relativly speaking) a lot of liberty granted by the states coupled with competition thanks to the decentralized nature of the continent after the fall of rome lead to the rise of private enterprises.

The rest is history.

>>2218091

This except the Marshall Plan. Europe would have recovered without it, it simply boosted up the process.

>>2219137

That contradicts the GGS argument. A posteriori, it's pretty simplistic and dumb to state that whatever currently ahead civilization (for a lack of a better term) achieved that because le happy starting point determined so.

Which btw isn't even true. Med Europe was a happy starting point but everything north of the Alps didn't favour agriculture until the invention of the heavy plow in the middle ages. Overall China has a better starting point than Europe. Although China was wealthier than Europe for most of history. It fell behind technologically because simply they weren't motivated to advance towards economical, social and technological change, because they were fine as they were.

In Europe in contrast, the driving force behind social, economical and technological advance wasn't some sort of systemic cultural collective will in which people woke up at 7:00 am thinking "hmmm I have to do stuff and ''contribute'' into things being different towhat they are now and fuck traditions and the systemic order as it is". Nope. The driving force was collective butthurt and competition between states. Even though the old Grecorroman civilizational ethos impregnated the West with a distinct mental and philosophical approach to life, stressing individualism, the very concept of embracing change, a mechanical view of the world and etc... had any country achieved a situation of comfy absolutely dominance so that there's no need to be aware of what happens beyond your borders or pay attention to what others are doing, they too would have stalled in their comfyness like China, Japan and the Roman Empire did.

>>2218074
>Why Is Europe so well off today?

Because it was unified in conflict.

>>2218074

>What is the Marshall Plan

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>>2219828
>UNITED FOREVER IN FRIENDSHIP AND LABOR
>STRONG IN OUR FRIENDSHIP TRIED BY FIRE
>THE GREAT SOVIET UNION WILL LIVE THROUGH THE AGES