>could be a powerful prosperous nation>but couldn’t figure out how to make railways or have a form of government that didn’t consist of strongman retards Why I also find it baffling that somehow Britain was the massive investor in Argentina for pretty much its entire history and they still couldn’t help but chimp out over the Falklands, solely to try and distract from domestic political issues over the mishandling of their economyI’ll never understand both the “resource curse” and rhe “middle income trap”. Both seem like copes
Less they couldn't figure it out and more they didn't want to, there was more money and influence in it for the elites if they kept things as they were, reform would only invite competitors against themselves
>>18434851I don't think you can comprehend just how stupid the average latinx 'merigan presidente was and is. me neither honestly
>>18434851It was doomed from the start, it was effectively a mobruled citystate so every decision waz to benefit the slum first and the nation last
>>18434851Race
>>18434851They're spics. In short.> Britain was the massive investor in Argentina for pretty much its entire history It hadn't been an important partner for a few decades by then.>>18434908I don't think there were that many stupid ones.>>18434932This retard is just saying shit.
>>18434954Cope more Juan, you still a spic no matter how much you dickride the bongs
>>18434954argentina is white, the spic is you
>>18434851retarded agrarian oligarchy followed by retarded pseudo-fascist strongman followed by retarded military juntas followed by retarded democratically elected goverments
>>18434851>could be a powerful prosperous nation>LatinxPick one
>>18434851>WhyToo many /pol/trannies.
>>18434882This is the essence of the "Middle-Income Trap". In a world where other fully industrialized countries already exist, the local elites have nothing to gain by fully industrializing (they are already rich and have a niche in the international bourgeois as overseers of the extraction zones) and everything to lose (creating an industrialized labor force is creating a people who can overthrow you, and the already industrialized countries will have every incentive to get rid of you if you try and compete with them and they'll win because they're industrialized and your not plus there is a whole conga line of other local elites who want your job and will gladly kill you to get back in the overlords good graces). So while it may be in the nations best interests to industrialize, it isn't in the RULERS best interests.
>>18436675>creating an industrialized labor force is creating a people who can overthrow youWhat are you talking about, the only successful communist revolutions happened in backwards peripherial agrarian shitholes lol
>>18436676Not only does it not have to be successful, it doesn't even have to be a full on revolution for the elite to not want to have to deal with it. Look at Industrial America. The elite had to constantly fight with the urban working class, and the more industrialized the country became, the more powerful the workers became. Soon the ruling class was having to make *shudder* concessions *shudder* to the working class. Ultimately culminating in things like the New Deal, which the ruling class were forced to enact specifically because they knew that if they didn't, there was a very real risk of their heads winding up on spikes. It's also why the ruling class was so eager to ship all the industrial jobs overseas, it wasn't just money, it was to get rid of the threat a large industrial working class represented. You can carpet bomb foreign workers if they get too uppity, but you can't do that to your own country because you live there. People like the Argentinian ruling class we are discussing have seen this and want no part of it. They don't want to have to make concessions, so they're not going to give their people the power to demand them.
>>18436701>tl;drthe simple fact is the only places that had successful communist revolutions were the ones where industrial workers were an economic after-thought
>>18436705What does that have to do with "Argentinian elites have nothing to gain by industrializing."?
>>18435051>Nooo pero goludooo vonoentende', nosotrolo Argentinoh somos europeo. En Mendoza e' Alemania. Ke so, un pelotudo voh? Sho zoy blanko; los bolita komo uds. son bien gaga.I know you aren't actually a silver simian. But I will pretend.
>>18436768'Spic' isn't really a racial classification, as I see it. It's more like a mental disease. Only way I can explain it.
>>18436768a lot of words to say 'I'm swinging in the tree, please give me a banana and crumb of attention"
>>18436835Thanks for it, thoughie. A'swinging I go. I just shat on a blonde child by the way.
>>18436675have they tried like not making the general public your enemy
