Does Where You're Born Matter More Than How Hard You Work?(decodeecon.com) |
Does Where You're Born Matter More Than How Hard You Work?(decodeecon.com) |
For example, someone with a very entrepreneurial mindset is probably going to want to be born in the US, and ideally close to a city like New York or San Francisco. You can certainly make it as a founder in Europe or Asia or Australia or what not, but it's a lot easier to get the funding needed to become a household name in the former, since (at least for a while) there were companies and investors willing to throw a ton of cash at crazy ideas rather than a moderate amount at proven businesses.
Similarly, if you're particularly interested in a certain industry, you'll ideally want to be born in a country where said industry has a decent foothold. Video game developers are all over the world, but it's hard to deny your odds are probably better in that industry if you're American or Japanese.
As the country's ability to provide basic utilities falters, sufficiently wealthy households go partially or completely off grid, depriving revenue for the utilities and further exacerbating the problem.
in the 3rd world - north of Limpopo - and everywhere else - you discover soon that where you born is like being 60 points down with a 2 min warning and you're in your own end zone.
where you are born matters more than your own talent etc by a factor of 10
What you might consider "middle class", suburban households, and up. These "upgrades" are something that you can roll into your mortgage.
> Why are they going off grid?
Electricity and water availability issues.
For example, I live in an area where water is unavailable between days and weeks, every few weeks. The systemic issue in my municipality is that they have not kept up with the maintenance of water pipes, which means a significant portion of water pumped from the national provider is lost via leaks. Thus when some pumps and reservoirs go offline due to power disruptions, the loss of flow can lead to no water in higher lying areas that takes time to restore.
There are private solutions to this - the most affordable option is to install a big water tank on your property that in affect acts as a water battery. A more expensive solution is to install a borehole on your property, and to draw water from the water table (this might make sense for a complex, or a rich household).
Not OP but it's because there are rolling blackouts.
> What is considered sufficiently wealthy
Ability to afford your own solar. A lot of South Africans can't, and with prices increasing 100x over the past 20 years, it makes it difficult to get out of that poverty.
And cousin marriage/cosanguinity as well.
How so?
The parents lived in the better location because they are better, purer Aryans. That's why the kid did better, because they have the good genes. They deserve their success. The poor deserve their poverty.
Zoom out to different countries and you can find top level members of the government making this argument on a daily basis. "They" are poor because they are inferior human beings and do not deserve to be treated as full human beings.
Claims of racial superiority are very fringe these days (even racists avoid explicitly making the claim and talk about things like culture) which is a significant improvement.
Which politicians make the claim that the poor are inferior and not full human beings? The idea is certainly out there, but mostly popular with a certain type of rich person, rather than people in governments, and is usually implicit rather than made explicitly.
Its possible this happens in countries I do not know about, but if so i would like to know which and who.
Any rich Jew was seen as a proof Jews are unfairly rich. And any poor Jew was seen as a proof Jews are criminal filth unable to get a job.