Why has the south always been so poor compared to the rich north?

>australia

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>Salve, Publius, have you ever wondered why the north has always been so poor compared to the rich south?
>I don't know, Manius, it must run in their blood

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>>72281397
South Korea is richer than the North.

>>72281524
They are both in the North. That doesn't count.

North Korea is not a country, it is basically a military.

>>72281397
>Russia
>North

>>72281494
We aren't southern, even you aren't southern in the grand scheme of things

There is 1000 times more the amount of land south of the maghreb coast than there is north of the rhine

I feel bad for South America, so many resources and still a shithole
>Iberians
>fell for the socialism meme
>corruption

Brazil and Argentina should be economic superpowers, not inconsequential countries with shit economies and governments

>>72281582
Southern and Northern are not only relative, they are also shifting. Spaniards and Italians weren't "southern Europeans" prior to the 19th century, it's a meme category that was made up after we fell behind in industrialization and moved from the "core" to the "periphery" (politically and economically speaking).

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>>72281397
Nuestro Norte es el Sur

>>72281784
Yes, so are you further proving my point that you're not southern then ?

Also it's not just relative. In absolute, georaphical, terms, there is a set amount of land in the north and south with meridians separating it and objectively you are in the northern part of it

You are on the northern coast of the mediterranean too

>Rich north
>kazahstan, russia, ukraine belarus

>poor south
>china

>>72281934
Yes, we are in agreement. Keep in mind that my post was just poking fun at the fact that the OP is German, and the fact that Germans are constantly banging on about "southern Europeans" and their allegedly pernicious mores.

The French, on the other hand, are bros.

>>72281960
Kazakhstan is on the same level as countries in eastern Europe and ahead of some (Latvia being on of them) so if Kazakhstan doesn't count then most of eastern Europe doesn't count too

>>72281397
Maybe you should stop being fucking retarded Hans.

For the most part, the English and French colonists in the U.S. and Canada came to live, while the Spanish conquistadors came to Mexico and Peru looking for resources to send back to Spain.

It’s an ironic truth that resource-rich countries are some of the economically poorest on Earth, while on average resource-poor countries (like England or Japan) have been more successful. This is called the resource trap. In Latin America, gold was first sought after, then silver, sugar, coffee –- you name it

First came Spain and Portugal, replaced by England during the industrial revolution. The Catholic Church’s prohibition of usury gave England a great opportunity to allow money lending, and therefore raise much more capital than Catholic countries. Later the U.S., with leaders who considered Latin America to be their subservient backyard, took the reins from England.

>>72281397
Resource trap. Why make universities when you can just mine oil and silver with your slaves?

>>72281960
You had the communism meme.

If you had 300 years of capitalism like other countries you would be rich too.

>>72281397
>Georgia
>9,699 Int$ GDP(PPP) per Capita
> Ukraine
>7,940 Int$ GDP(PPP) per Capita
>Blue

>Panamá
>22,237 Int$ GDP(PPP) per Capita
>Chile
>22,370 Int$ GDP(PPP) per Capita
>Uruguay
>21,244 Int$ GDP(PPP) per Capita
>Argentina
>20,364 Int$ GDP(PPP) per Capita
>Red

Objectively a meme map.

>>72282594
GDP PPP MEME

>>72281397
Bacteria tend to propagate in higher temperatures, making it harder for natives to get their shit together
This can be said only for africa thou, don't know about others
>>72281960
Yeah op fucked up there

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>>72282642
Do you prefer Nominal?
>Georgia
>3,795 Int$ GDP(Nominal) per Capita
> Ukraine
>2,005 Int$ GDP(Nominal) per Capita
>Blue

>Panamá
>13,268 Int$ GDP(Nominal) per Capita
>Chile
>13,416 Int$ GDP(Nominal) per Capita
>Uruguay
>15,772 Int$ GDP(Nominal) per Capita
>Argentina
>13,432 Int$ GDP(Nominal) per Capita
>Red

>muh colonialism
>muh tropical climate cripples productivity
>muh non protestant work ethic
>muh shitskins

i don´t fucking know, nigga i just want the north to leave us the fuck alone so we can stop being niggers for fuck´s sake

>>72281494
WE WUZ ROMANS

>>72281584
>so many resources
Far less than America. Not that that's the problem, though.

>>72284505
...but we actually wuz. The joke is that African Americans claim they somehow descend from Egyptians, which is ridiculous since they were all from West Africa.

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>>72281397
Fixed your out of date map

>>72281397
Pollution and overcrowding is worse in the North, guess that's the price you paid

>>72281397
This is a shit map.
It hasn't always been. Only really recent history. Northern countries rely on resource-rich countries. Actually they rely on the cheap exploitation of them, as they have for hundreds of years. Even Britain and other Northern countries exploited Australia for a long time. Shipping it's wealth directly back to Europe and central Asia. As well as using it's economic lucrativity to suck up some good money and then return home.

Also we are a southern cunt, as is NZ. Fuck off cunts.