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140 - The Future is Fiat | Noah Smith (Noahpinion)
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Russia and the Resource Curse
The resource curse is the reason why Russia has degenerated from an advanced society to this sort of barbarian hell right now. They forgot their nerds, they degenerated into barbarians because that's all the, all the barbarians are just extractive people, right? People who just live via extraction of resources instead of creation of resource. And then when you look at countries that do this, most of them turn out badly. I know Norway turned out well, but like most countries that go down this road have very dysfunctional politics. But while we're on kind of the Russia theme for a minute, I think Noah should get a download of your brain and match that against some of our mental
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