Puerto Rico.
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10/10. Cried after waking up the morning after and I could see my popcorn ceiling without glasses. Fixed my aphantasia, went from a 4.5 to a 2.
Only "complaint" is now my left eye is stronger than my right eye. Ive adjusted to it but the first year my brain would like... stutter as it tried to reconcile which eye was stronger.
This topic is extremely sensationalized. It's impossible to discern the truth anymore. All we know is he's a murderer, many of his supposed victims are (were) alive, and had he a mansion with a weird floorplan, which was more likely to defraud investors than it was to kill people. Pulitzer got famous from this.
Old school Runescape
The real issue is that we have a rapidly aging workforce and there's not enough young people to replace them. With the average age of parents raising, the gap is getting larger. In the 50s it was 16 workers for every 1 retired. The 70s, 5:1. That number is now almost 2:1. This is bad. Very bad.
Higher bar for jobs. Lower wage for entry level. Later retiring age. Higher need for migrant and seasonal workers.
2016 - 40% of mortgage borrowers are not paying their debt down. Those that are paying principal are doing so at a rate it would take 100 years https://www.swedennews.net/news/225058369/sweden-facing-possible-property-bubble-warns-imf
2014 - Sweden to limit max mortgage to 105 years after average repayment is 140 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/mortgages/sweden-cuts-maximum-mortgage-term-to-105-years-the-average-is-14/
2024 - Countrys household debt to income reaches 180% (down from 199% in 2022) https://www.nordea.com/en/news/household-debt-burden-on-the-decline-in-sweden
I'm not sure if people are suggesting that oil itself is a magical solution or if they're suggesting that having exclusive access to an extremely profitable resource (oil) enables a country with a tiny population to make socialism work.
I have a strange feeling that if oil became worthless Norway would quickly stop doing socialism well
Sweden is fairly unique as it's economy wasn't destroyed by WWII, and it's stance on banking, foreign exports, and foreign ownership has enabled it to make massive profits. But the economy is seriously struggling today. The average home loan takes 100 years to pay off.
Finland economy replaces oil with timber and an extremely educated population. Both of which are not sustaining the model well as the country is in recession. The timber industry isnt producing sustainable profits like it used to. The debt-to-GDP ratio is extremely high. The highly educated population is leaving and people don't typically immigrate to Finland.
So arguably the model isn't working anymore, without something like oil to fall back on.
It's a mucus membrane, what else would it be?
... and that's relevant, how? Were talking about tarrifs. Puerto Rican coffee has no increase in tarrifs. Puerto rico grows coffee - not a particularly huge amount of it, (yet), but it's good (not great).