Talk About Tennis 2.0

Me neither, but perhaps a chance of being a well positioned manufacturing hub? They have the required people resources even if not well educated.

The only material resource I suppose is tourist atracting beaches.

Actually that's another interesting question to ponder about. Which countries other than the obvious (China and India) will gain (= get closer than today) most relative to US standard on each continent in the next 20-30 years?

I would propose Vietnam and Indonesia in Asia, Poland in Europe, Morocco in Africa and Chile in South and Central America. Although the last two is more of a guess...

Uruguay is slowly gaining. Small population, a stable economy (not booming, stable) and well positioned for funding to come in.
I remember when I moved to Colombia. I was talking to Drop Shot and he mentioned something that stuck in my mind ever since: changing countries within S. America is like changing cabins in the Titanic.
Not. Gonna. Work.

We will always be behind the European standards, by about 50-60 years. My fear is that the gap will widen, due to technology. You guys will be manufacturing robots, we will still be unable to design from scratch a smoothie blender.

Not like he's completely wrong, but one could do a lot worse than the average in the neighborhood. See Venezuela...

Suliso wrote: ↑Mon Oct 27, 2025 7:14 pm Not like he's completely wrong, but one could do a lot worse than the average in the neighborhood. See Venezuela...

Never heard of that place...

For some reason this creeps me out...

OMG. Little Shop of Horrors, meet John Carpenter...

This year's Thriller from the Village Halloween Party

ti-amie wrote: ↑Tue Oct 28, 2025 1:48 am For some reason this creeps me out...

We have a few in our garden.. it is great fun to watch them blooming, in a few minutes - so that cancels out the sad part..