All of the World’s Wealth in One Visualization
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USA and China with almost as much money as the rest of the world combined. Five different European countries that singlehandedly hold more wealth than the entire African continent, and two others that are close. Thus they get to decide how shyt runs even if most of that wealth was built up by dead people. Damn AUSTRALIA and their 25 million people with more wealth than all 54 African countries and over a billion people combined (not that Aboriginal Australians hold fukk-all of that). And fools still cape for capitalism.
"I do think it's important to keep perspective: Russia doesn't make anything. Immigrants aren't rushing to Moscow for opportunities. The life expectancy of the Russian male is around 60 years old. The population is shrinking."
The only advantage Russia has is that Putin has virtually absolute power so he can focus the entire resources of the state on his own personal objectives. But as a nation they're doing really shytty. They're basically reliant on selling natural resources like a third-world country would be and they are fighting, just ended, or are about to fight wars on like five different fronts, some of which are within their own territory.
The truth is the USA holds more power in that relationship than China does. China is the one that has to wait on our payments. They don't have any power to make any demands on the USA at all, they're hoping to stay in the USA's good graces.
You know how a major facet of the Iranian nuclear deal was that the USA was withholding money from Iran that actually belonged to Iran? They held onto that shyt for 40 years. What if China did some wild shyt and the USA used that as an excuse to do the same thing to them? Just held onto all the money and stopped making payments. Without American interest payments and the American market, Chinese economy would crash like a motherfukker. They growing fast but they don't have nearly as much breathing room, they need the USA even more than the USA needs them. And they don't have the military power to make the USA pay for it in any meaningful way.
Russia is a hellhole. Obama's ripdown of their economy was completely accurate even if he never predicted what their hacking and electioneering could accomplish.The way Russia stay running around us in these streets, thought they’d have grown bigger...
I’ve seen one of these for economies as well, and both pics just leave me hoping that one day some nation in Africa reaches a size were their name can fit inside their slice
"I do think it's important to keep perspective: Russia doesn't make anything. Immigrants aren't rushing to Moscow for opportunities. The life expectancy of the Russian male is around 60 years old. The population is shrinking."
The only advantage Russia has is that Putin has virtually absolute power so he can focus the entire resources of the state on his own personal objectives. But as a nation they're doing really shytty. They're basically reliant on selling natural resources like a third-world country would be and they are fighting, just ended, or are about to fight wars on like five different fronts, some of which are within their own territory.
And? So China demands its money back, and then.....?
The truth is the USA holds more power in that relationship than China does. China is the one that has to wait on our payments. They don't have any power to make any demands on the USA at all, they're hoping to stay in the USA's good graces.
You know how a major facet of the Iranian nuclear deal was that the USA was withholding money from Iran that actually belonged to Iran? They held onto that shyt for 40 years. What if China did some wild shyt and the USA used that as an excuse to do the same thing to them? Just held onto all the money and stopped making payments. Without American interest payments and the American market, Chinese economy would crash like a motherfukker. They growing fast but they don't have nearly as much breathing room, they need the USA even more than the USA needs them. And they don't have the military power to make the USA pay for it in any meaningful way.