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It finally started to snow about 24 hours ago and the temperatures dropped a few more degrees.
The following is an analysis of the relation between climate and wealth. If you're a hard core scientist please be advised that I'm going to be throwing around allegations without providing any grounds for them and I'm going to push the boundaries of logic and I will even resort to sophism if it serves my purpose. We're not pulling any punches. The only point of the entire exercise is to launch an idea so that I might get feedback on its various aspects regardless of how unlikely or debatable some things may be.
My thesis is that countries with colder climates tend to be richer than countries with warmer climates and people who live in cold environments tend to be richer themselves than those coming from warm environments.
My explanation is simple. If you come from a land of cold, you learn very early in life that working keeps you warm. Also, in such a land of everwinter as we might imagine, if you don't work you die, usually by freezing to death. As work usually generates wealth I will infer that cold produces wealth.
On the contrary, if you are born and raised under the scorching sun of the tropics you know that working under the midday sun is very unpleasant, hard to bear and even deadly. You're more likely to survive and live a comfortable life if you avoid working under the sun and generally put things off till later. So, not working doesn't produce anything but at least it doesn't kill you.
By savagely generalizing things we can say that cold environments make people culturally inclined to work and produce wealth while warm environments generally end up deterring them.
I hope I haven't offended too many people and my explanation was clear enough. Now, your thoughts?
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