How was scandinavia so rich even in the 1930s?
It wasn't, everyone else was just poorer
>>215321027you were richer than the Netherlands and basically on par with the UK which has the largest empire ever seen in history
>>215321080Are you really assuming empire is actually good for the average citizen back home?
>>215321080Well most people from then are dead so I can't tell you much about it. But from my view people were rationing meatballs in the 70s just to survive.
>>215320901Looked at the source and that's GNI, not GDP
>>215321165sure empires cost a lot of money to maintain but in the end its better being a colonial country than being an irrelevant eastern european country that never colonized anything
>>215321080Id say being neutral in ww1 was the reason, it was really poor in the 1800s, people were fleeing the country. 1/3 fled to the US.
>>215320901Many are saying: "Because Scandinavia was homogeneous at the time." Do you agree with them?
>>215321202Not really the point, empires were driven by and pretty much exclusively benefitted the wealthy elite, they've never been that great for improving the lives of average citizens.
>>215321202holy brown shitalian reading comprehension
>>215321325why were pooplaks so poor before le ebil communism? Not many toilets to clean back then?
>>215321233It's more just 1. a quirk of measuring: the pic conflates GDP and GNI and norway has inflted GNI because its merchant fleet was a much larger part of its economy than elsewhere. It's domestic economy would have looked considerably smaller. 2. the fact that norway was less affected by the great recession and WWI because it's economy was less advanced and less globally integrated
>>215320901Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia:>mhmm.. Communism turned us into poor shitholes.
>>215321693Ssssshhh, don't say that! they'll call you a VPN HIVan
>>215321693>>215321719do you see us having 30% the wealth of the average Swiss now?
>>215321848Virtually none of the countries on the map scaled proportionally to switzerland retard
>>215321903ok, do you see us having half the wealth of the average Swede today?
>>215320901they didnt get invaded by freemasons
>>215320901shipping, aliminium and electric hydro power you nigger
>>215320901Neutrality during ww1, staying out of conflict since 1870s basicallyI wouldn't say we were actually rich. As >>215321658 said engaging in international trade bumps up GDP while real life for commoners can be very different than suggestedDanish commoners were traditionally "wealthier" than average Swedes and Norwegians because we have the agriculture with mostly very soils, and were the first in the Nordics to industrialize tooBut avg ppl weren't exactly rich, a lot of people in the 1930s living in cramped apartments in cities and places like Copenhagen had ghetto like hoods of poor Danish people
>>215322014>mostly verymostly very fertile
>>215320901Lumber, hydropower and ships.
>>215321693you realizer the entire soviet block collapsed because of its shitty economics
Lumber industry
>>215320901Racially pure Nordics.Denmark, Norway and Sweden pre-WW2 were the best societies ever created. Homogeneous, good welfare programs, eugenics, serene, and healthy.
>>215321693You were saying?
>>215320901What source is this? This doesnt seem accurate
>>215322420you need glasses man
>>215321233No because Scandinavia was an utter shithole all the way up to the present despite being 100% white retard
>>215322641Yeah because of the geography and weather. It wasnt until the industrial age until these challenges could be overcome and mitigated.
>>215322420From the wikipedia page that is listed it seems to be paul bairochs GNI (GNP) figures. GNP/GNI (two names for the same thing) is a very different figure from GDP (which it claims in the pic). GDP only takes into account good and services produced inside a country, GNI also takes into account money made outside the country, which is what inflates Norways figures here. They had a large shipping fleet that was proportionally a larger part of their economy
>>215321202the British empire was a huge regressive taxation scheme. the proles didn't benefit from it.
>>215321693Yes, we didnt benefit from the Marshal plan eitherwe were left to be moscow's slaves instead
>>215320901Making this comparison during a massive financial crisis seems a bit unfair. Complex industrial economies are hit harder than countries that just sell salted fit.
