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Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan
I keep looking at countries our size (small) and notice one clear trend.
They have either substantially higher (like Monaco, Luxemburg, Malta, Denmark or Lebanon pre war) or lower (like Haiti, Belize etc.) than medium level of industrialized nation's standard of living.
Industry seems not the #1 at determining the standard of living because I see countries that have a very high per capita industry level, but low living standard, while some have very low industrial level (tourism included ) but high and comfortanle lives for their sitizens.
I think the reasons behind this are social and being small.
Some countries, like US, have large worldwide industries, but the standard of living here (and Europe) has been declining steadily for past 30 years.
It does not take a lot to change living conditions in a small nations. Few billions more or less can have big effect.
We should not forget about internal turn over.
If the average per capita income in Armenia is $8000( lets assume) then it translates to $24 billion.
Do we have $24 billion exports? No. But to have $30000 per capita income in Armenia it translates (I know falsely) to $90 billion.
In today's world $66 billion is nothing, but this majic number means from poorest becoming to wealthiest nation.
Icannot say we export $24 billion, we can export $90billion too.
The majic is money turn over in a given social structure.
Cut the money concentration in few hands, money flight or investment in dead accounts or assets.
Create atmosphere of social fairness, work ethics and hard working (for 70 soviet years people lived in atmosphere that tought them that hard work did not matter). Cut corruption to zero.
If a nation of 3 million wants to work hard, no matter how much selling abroad or not, has vision and thrusts one another, there is no way the living standards would not go up.
But this population has to be left to create, like laying hans. No war, no thieves to steal the eggs, no social unrest.
Originally posted by HyeSocialist
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They have either substantially higher (like Monaco, Luxemburg, Malta, Denmark or Lebanon pre war) or lower (like Haiti, Belize etc.) than medium level of industrialized nation's standard of living.
Industry seems not the #1 at determining the standard of living because I see countries that have a very high per capita industry level, but low living standard, while some have very low industrial level (tourism included ) but high and comfortanle lives for their sitizens.
I think the reasons behind this are social and being small.
Some countries, like US, have large worldwide industries, but the standard of living here (and Europe) has been declining steadily for past 30 years.
It does not take a lot to change living conditions in a small nations. Few billions more or less can have big effect.
We should not forget about internal turn over.
If the average per capita income in Armenia is $8000( lets assume) then it translates to $24 billion.
Do we have $24 billion exports? No. But to have $30000 per capita income in Armenia it translates (I know falsely) to $90 billion.
In today's world $66 billion is nothing, but this majic number means from poorest becoming to wealthiest nation.
Icannot say we export $24 billion, we can export $90billion too.
The majic is money turn over in a given social structure.
Cut the money concentration in few hands, money flight or investment in dead accounts or assets.
Create atmosphere of social fairness, work ethics and hard working (for 70 soviet years people lived in atmosphere that tought them that hard work did not matter). Cut corruption to zero.
If a nation of 3 million wants to work hard, no matter how much selling abroad or not, has vision and thrusts one another, there is no way the living standards would not go up.
But this population has to be left to create, like laying hans. No war, no thieves to steal the eggs, no social unrest.
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