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A (Visual) Tale of 25 Cities (And Half The World's GDP)
With more people in the world living in cities than ever before, cities’ share of global GDP is rising: 25 cities account for approximately 50% of the world’s GDP. But not all cities can be winners, and not all are destined for greatness. The following smorgasbord of charts highlight how successful cities have typically had natural advantages such as location, time zone and resources; but more importantly, to remain successful they need education, a skilled workforce, strong property rights, a broad base of industries and in some cases, policies aimed at attracting capital and talent. Conversely, As Goldman notes, when cities fail it tends to be either because of an overreliance on an industry that has seen a dramatic shift in its profitability, or as a result of the vested interests of those that control them.
It took 1000 years for Rome to be topples as the world's largest (by population) city...
The following 12 charts suggest some cities are on the ascent, some are bubbling dangerously, and others have reached 'peak' citiness...
Source: Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs
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Anybody else moving to the country?
...moving countries is probably a better solution at this point.......Oligarch 124.....serfianbaglicker 0
it's a shut out at his point
The Bush family bought a ton of rural property in Paraguay. Wonder why.
Didn't he also buy a ton of water rights in Mexico somewhere?
Southern hemisphere offers protection from Fuku radiation...
Until it don't, because of sea currents.
Rand also--The property was alleged to be appx 155,000 acres in the lush pampus region and the water rights are also under the property in Paraguay which is the wild willy of S.A.countries.
Supposedly the aquafilter which our earlier scumbag bought is one of the largest in S.A. It might prove to be very valuable as Paraguay is only one of two countries in S.A. that is landlocked; the other being Bolovia.
Been to Paraguay, and the law appears to be rather--shall we say, a little ragged around the ears. Milestones
Coca-Coca-Cola.
biggest rural landowners in Argentina are George Soros via Cresud SA and the Benetton family, mostly patagonia because of the wool.
There are those who own whole countries.
Well, it ain't "socialists", as many programmed retards proclaim/regurgitate.
It about fucking time that ppl here stop drinking party-Kool-Aid, and realize the truth (that I've been proclaiming for a year):
It's the FEUDAL masters. Who have had a Hundred years to reorganize and globalize.
The term a "King of the World" is more than a figure of speech.
But a lifetime of conditioning, that results in the Normalcy Bias and Stockholm Syndrome for most sheeple, is very hard to overcome, I realize.
Who owns the World?
The Vatican?
Large cities are a breeding ground for zombies, yeah I said zombies...
calling henry george ...
Which country? Is there one without a Rothschild bank? And don't say Venezuela.
Just move to Switzerland.
Nobody screws around in their own neighbourhood.
Occident Mortal Are you bipolar?
Just yesterday you were inbracing the virtues of all things electronic?
my friend just caught his neighbor screwing his wife.....
Big cities are death traps.
Where is Bentonville Arkansas?
Want mobile internet? Move to Zurich!
Financial gnombs need mobile access.
Please don't... too many people already walk about with their head up their iAss...
Also the data on Zurich is insanely wrong (unless they're quoting CHF/MB).
$25 buys you two bus tickets the the nearest Swisscom/Orange/Sunrise shop, it does not buy anyone here a mobile data plan sell with 80mbps service.
Where is the tomb of Alexander the Great ?
The biggest secrets in the world are best hidden when they are in plain view
http://eamb-ydrohoos.blogspot.gr/2012/07/tomb-of-alexander.html
What the fuck kind of gibberish was that shit?
I mean, what the actual fuck? Anybody else try to make heads or tails out of that?
Spam bot.
you just dont understand art.
"Share of global GDP"? How does this statistic define anything? Where is it produced? By whom? Usually demographics describe individuals. A "city" might have millions of every demographic category in it. How is this useful? Hey wake up! I heard you snoring...this is demographics, goddam it, not somehting interesting!
What the hell good are cities? They don't mine anything. They don't manufacture anything. They don't grow anything. They are full of politicians, taxers, agents, lawyers, bureaucrats, courthouses, slums, paper pushers, overpriced restaurants, traffic, and sewer rats. Cities consume three or four times the energy per person of rural areas. Cities are the festering cancers on the global landscape. They produce nothing but consume everything.
Most high tech, computers and military etc, come from urban areas.
Suburbs maybe, not urban areas. Real industry doesn't want to pay the high taxes, suffer the bureaucracy, or traffic. Silicon Valley, Route 128, Research Triangle Park, Sorrento Valley, Austin Research Park, Los Alamos, Livermore, Naperville, Skunk Works, Murray Hill, etc. all sit well outside urban areas.
Producers want to be close to bright minds to make money, but away from politicians and unproductive population elements. Common sense. Detroit versus Redmond Ca.
The only societal benefit of large cities is that good minds settle there to market and develop their ideas. Genius is largely wasted in a small town. The concentration of better minds and capital create good economic enterprises. Of course they also attract also the amoral giving us things like Goldman sachs, Tammany hall, Unions and gangsters.
The GDP figure is a convenient fiction since it counts consumption as product-ion. There is not that much original production in cities, but a lot of consumption. Most of the production is services that is forced on the people by laws such as insurance and financial services. With the advent of the internet there is no longer any good reason for these to be physically concentrated in commercial centers like new York and London.
By the looks of it, you guys in the States are getting royally fucked over by Verizon, AT&T et al.
You can get a 1,000 Mbit line in Asia for the same price as a 25 - 50 Mbit line in the USA. Yeah, they're getting screwed royally.
i've forgetten exactly when, but all of those companies were given enormous tax breaks in lieu of building "the information super-highway". as far as i can tell they just pocketted them and never delivered.