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If George Washington declared himself king, you might be looking today at 30% unemployment like some of the euros
by skaplun 9y ago
If George Washington declared himself king, you might be looking today at 30% unemployment like some of the euros
- tehwebguy 9y agoWhat is the point you were trying to make?
- skaplun 9y ago"that the existence of government is just one small part." I dont think you can qualify government as "just one small part". America would not be in the same place today without the decisions taken over time by its leaders. The same decisions would not be made under a different system of incentives for a leader like a monarchy/anarchy
- timthelion 9y agoIt wouldn't be the same place, but it would still have enjoyed the highest natural-resource to population ration of any nation in history. Coal, Iron, Oil, Natural Gas, Gold, Wood, Water, Arible land, Uranium, Aluminium, Copper, all in great supply. The only comparable nations I can think of are Australia and Brazil, and their relative wealth is rather well explained by the overall wealth gradient nearing the equator:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_and_wealth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_and_wealth
- kwhitefoot 9y agoMost of the European states that have monarchs (Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands for instance) are doing alright, Spain is an outlier.
- omginternets 9y agoLet's not forget the UK.
- kwhitefoot 9y agoI haven't forgotten the UK. It's where I come from. Unfortunately the saying: "The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there." applies. So I sometimes try to avoid mentioning it, and especially anything to do with Brit royalty.
- omginternets 9y agoI'm not sure what you're hinting at, but it sounds like the current state of UK politics has you exasperated. Still, the UK is objectively doing alright these days, and objectively has a monarchy :)