If I have to hear about The Resource Curse one more time, I'm probably going to do adventurism. The whole point of the theory is "having resources is bad actually, because you have no incentive to improve the lives of your citizens if all the wealth comes from extraction industries. Somehow those countries just keep themselves in poverty, despite all the aid and IMF money they get :visible-disgust:
Oh, sure. Like pointing to a guy that's just been mugged and saying "you've got the Full Wallet Curse. Maybe you just didn't innovate yourself through that mugging hard enough".
But OP's image seems to think it's the opposite, which is weird given what we know about the imperial core relative to the colonies.
If I have to hear about The Resource Curse one more time, I'm probably going to do adventurism. The whole point of the theory is "having resources is bad actually, because you have no incentive to improve the lives of your citizens if all the wealth comes from extraction industries. Somehow those countries just keep themselves in poverty, despite all the aid and IMF money they get :visible-disgust:
Oh, sure. Like pointing to a guy that's just been mugged and saying "you've got the Full Wallet Curse. Maybe you just didn't innovate yourself through that mugging hard enough".
But OP's image seems to think it's the opposite, which is weird given what we know about the imperial core relative to the colonies.