Is this the reason Portugal is significantly poorer than other Western European countries?
Brazil was the center of the Portuguese empire, not Portugal. Sound weird but it's true. Brazil was extremely wealthy Portuguese Royal family and court moved to Brazil at some point.
>>217659692Kek so you're saying Brazil would be an even bigger shit hole than it is now if Portugal was still leeching off of it
yes, Spain too. They pillaged all the valubles from two of the wealthiest empires on earth and then used the money to pay Germans and Italians to kill each other
50 years of corrupt socialism is the short answer.We're not doing as bad as people think though.It's just that boomers always vote for the same parties that increase their pensions, so the two same political parties stay in power ad aeternum
>>217659692Its too good there so they dont work. Italy has food and architecture, spain has beaches and architecture and portugal has it all so why would anyone work in paradise??
>>217659776No, Brazil being a shithole has nothing to do with that
>>217659815>We're not doing as bad as people think though.Well of course, there's not a single "bad" Western European country. Not a single one
>>217659755First post retarded postBrazil was the "center" when the royal court fled there for a brief period of time (1808-1821)The empire had been in a steady decline since the end of the iberian union (1640)
Even from that sentence fragment you can tell that xitter user is retarded
>>217659815>implying Salazar and Caetano were socialists
