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Let's see, Uruguay. I'm from California but i've spent a few years living in Uruguay and started and ran a tech business in Uruguay. The country is a special unique place, but it's far from perfect. Let's start with the good things: Good Tech Policies * Laptops for every public school child (over 1 million distributed) * Free basic (64k 1 gb per month) internet on every phone line * Good 3G/4G coverage over the count…
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Sounds a lot Luke Austria ( the good and the bad) ... a little bit more tech startup friendly maybe.
Except for the socially progressive part...
Plus you can drink beer in public in Austria. That's pretty "progressive" right? And doesn't Austria have legal prostitution (or am I thinking of Germany?)?
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Production isn't regulated, only its sale, in small amounts. It's better than nothing, but it's still screwed up. If you want to run a coffee shop, you can safely sell weed without fear of getting in trouble (as long as you don't sell to minors and don't sell large amounts). However, you still need to buy what you sell. Growing it is illegal (and prosecuted), buying it is illegal (and prosecuted). Worse, if you decid…
That's sad about the attitude of the political parties - I always had the Netherlands pegged as a quite progressive, open-minded country.
Apparantly Scotland is "foolhardy" if it opts for "secession", but Ireland, which already did opt for secession (less pejoratively, secession is typically known as independence once it is acheived), is a resiliant example to us all, with its HDI and economy miles above that of Scotland, and that despite a total lack of oil, and despite a bad housing bust. Funny, that. You have to be very careful with the Economist be…
You realize that North Sea Oil is well past it's peak ? - production has declined by nearly a half since 1999 and at current projections it'll be at a third of it's peak by 2020. The UK has a whole has already become a net importer rather than exporter. There are strong arguments in favour of scottish independence but largely they're down to cultural rather than economic reasons.
I live in an oil city and the number of Scottish workers or companies that have regional headquarters or major locations in Aberdeen is huge.
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You clearly aren't a regular reader. The Economist is known for its dry wit, particularly with image captions. Anyway, if you want examples, get a subscription..
I'm not a subscriber, but I read quite a few of their articles and I'm pretty sure I never noticed a sentence like "This is a change so obviously sensible that no other country has made it."
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You're saying it's hypocritical to oppose the independence of Scotland, because there are examples of countries who have done well after their independence?
Not hypocritical, just demonstrating poor judgement due to a lack of objectivity. As a relatively right wing, conservative English publication they're opposed to independence for Scotland but of course express this in terms of it being a bad idea for Scotland. this despite all the evidence that smaller countries do better. I'll now most likely be down voted for pointing that out.
Apparantly Scotland is "foolhardy" if it opts for "secession", but Ireland, which already did opt for secession (less pejoratively, secession is typically known as independence once it is acheived), is a resiliant example to us all, with its HDI and economy miles above that of Scotland, and that despite a total lack of oil, and despite a bad housing bust. Funny, that. You have to be very careful with the Economist be…
I believe Scotland receives money from the uk which they would not if they separate. A similar situation for Quebec and Canada.
What interest rate they would have to pay on that debt is a different question...
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> GMOs aren't bad in principle, but they are risky Yeah, but how can someone praise the legalization of marijuana and the prohibition of GMO at the same time? GMO and marijuana are not always bad, but it's important to let people make their own decisions about them. It's like he doesn't even know why he's pro-marijuana legalization, isn't it about individual freedom to put what you want in your body? Thought so. Also…
The problem with GMOs are the unknown long time risks and the fact that you may lose the ability to decide because you don't even know that it is an GMO or you don't have a choice at all. You don't have to smoke pot, but you have to eat.
Uruguayan here and proud of my little country. We do have our fair share of issues like any other country on the world, but overall we are doing pretty good and life here is good.
No it isn't for me, I'm young, I want to progress, do things that matter. I don't know if I want to change the world but I certainly want to change some things around but all the time you want to do it you get that calm voice that says "Oh but life is pretty good here, there are no much ups and downs".
I don't think a US person can stay here for more than a month were the realization of a human being is to buy a house, a car have kids and that's it.
We need to stop boast ourselves with this kind of oversized look we are getting from outside and start fixing our crap. Low the taxes, educate better our childs and provide money for the doers and not by political friendship anymore, we can start there.