The railway already exists but runs further southpic.twitter.com/MVPuhJtjYZ
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...far fewer people wanting to live in the former and far more people content to visit once or twice in their lives
Prosperous places ipso facto can afford to pay for better transport links; links which ultimately reinforce their preexisting advantages
I wish I knew! They need to expand their economies by producing more locally instead of importing, but that's much easier said than done
You can see how they ended up stagnant by looking at what they DID produce locally, though--resource-oriented economies very vulnerable
If you have a resource in demand, there's little incentive to develop your native productive capacities--you can just export the resource...
...and use the earnings to buy whatever you need. This is all well and good until your buyers find other places to get the resources from...
...or stop needing that particular resource entirely because of some technological breakthrough. When that happens...
...you still need to import everything you used to, but you no longer have any way of paying for it. In a first world country this means...
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