One of These Islands Found Oil, The Other Got Rich

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One of These Islands Found Oil, The Other Got Rich


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How Sao Tome (thought) it found a mineral jackpot, it ended up hurting the country. Cabo Verde proves that point.

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@h0ser

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@brunobastos5533

Probably only Norway used oil profit as it should , might be with Nordic mentality

@hugh4035

2:13 the Netherlands is not a resource poor nation, we have vast amounts of gas in Groningen.

@remaginad

6:33 parece o caneta azul

@dinojello

> some resource poor states like Netherlands have done remarkably well
Ever heard of Dutch disease?

people who won the lottery
vs
people who got rich by doing actual work

@CudesniVuk

I thought fron the thumbnail that one island was at war with the other.

the thumbnail looks like you opend diplomacy in hoi4 and they are at war

@mistersir3020

I don't believe any of this

@Wasnt-1

this is why norway is genius it doesn't only focuses on oil and gas exports but also fishing wood products etc etc and all the revenue would go straight into the government's investment fund that'll fund their citizen's study thus creating jobs to every norwegians that in the future would pay their fair share of taxes creating literally infinite money glitch even if their petroleum resources would run out

@YuioMoment

This is such a ironic topic dang

@rittwik

10:20 😁😆😆🤣🤣

@Vtarngpb

Drill baby drill! 😂

@quantumbyte-studios

10:47 Plot twist

@kevinwasilewski598

Cape Verdean/Polish in the house

@quincyquincy4764

The Netherlands has natural gas, which was used to boost the Dutch economy

@fumafuma0323

The biggest disantavantage to having oil is America

@akbrooks70

Oil isn’t exactly homogeneous because of sulfur content and it’s the refining process. Venezuela has some of the largest reserves but Texas has the purest oil content out there making Texas’ reserves much more desirable. Sweet Crude has made Texas the energy capital of the world where many other deposits have to ship it to Texas for refinement.

@mzvlogs6409

never heard of cabo verde only heard of cape verde

@ProwerTheFox7

12:55 they literally became Tropico

@BrokenCurtain

Well, there used to be a lot of transferable knowledge in mining – like elevators and steel wire.

The problem is that this well has dried up because we already figured out those things.

@gustavalexander8676

THe notion that countries mostly living on oil exports somehow do worse due to "corruption" is this unprovable, unstestable liberal catch-all hypothesis used to explain everything and nothing. There is no immediately clear reason why a 'mono-exporter' would be more susceptible to corruption than a country with more advanced industry. At least none that you provide in the video. Whatmore the oil-rich countries you use as exemplification are very bad examples. Iran and Russia are both benefiting immensly from their oil/gas industries "corruption" or not.
THis is just more classic, self-congratulatory pretense with little knowledge of modern economics or geopolitical trends. The very implication that oil rich island economies ought to be meaningfully comparable to, say, Russia or Iran is laughable.

Anonymous

Democracy doesn't guarantee prosperity.
Good governance does, if the people are hardworking. Which most people are actually.

@pedrosousa9780

most of portuguese colonies was base in strategic places for business only.

@Nosense2010P

I love Cape Verde and it will be my future house!

@lost4468yt

Norway is probably the best case study in how to handle oil and similar resources. But very few countries have the type of foresight, culture (including being already pretty good), and political mechanisms to do that. In fact I think it's really only Norway who has implemented it so well.

@bielaggs

learn how to pronounce the name of a place before making a video about, it's not " Saw Toemay"

@eldinovm8077

They shouldve gotten a clue that there wasnt any oil when the US didnt invade them

@ytrew9717

man you ignore a crucial factor: Cape Verde and Sao Tome are populated by very different cultures, and thus come very different background. Man, black/African, cultures aren't equal at all. There are more difference between the sub-Saharan culture and the north (starting in the sahel) than there is between the Arabs and Europeans. You are wrong, it's not oil but culture. By the way Arab oil rich countries are considerably more developed than the sub-Saharan cultures oil rich countries. Skin color isn't a good indicator of the culture. What you are missing is that, wealth and poverty is rooted in the culture (and thus in deep history.

@miguelpaulo3125

You see, being colonized by the portuguese makes you better, embrace Portugual as your country, because it makes you better as a person.

@admdubya2107

I feel like the stats about resource rich vs resource poor might be a little…artificially diplomatically and explosively skewed.

@xonxoshadow

4:43 what is This chile slander lmao

@user-fx2bx1gz4c

"machine-heavy" doesn't describe all mining. Michael Ross at UCLA has done extensive work on rentier states, and oil is kind of on the extreme side of resource extraction in terms of its capital:labor input ratio.

@bagobones9891

Considering oil won't stop being used in our life time being a petodollar reliant state isnt an issue ita an issue for the leaders in a generation or 2 😂😂

@TheU.S.

Did you just say oil?

@Aitocracy

They have a cool volcano that’s why!

4:29 Gotta Love always using Kosovo for political friction XD

@phishENchimps

Why do they need so much aid?

@fredmidtgaard5487

Strange you don't mention Norway. We have only good experience with oil. And we are among the richest countries in the world by now. Oh, and by the way: The UK managed the same resources very badly: Margareth Thatcher, I mean! Oh, and Tanzania has also managed its fossil gas resources ver well!

@HenriqueC2025

You can't talk about Venezuela without talking about the communist regime there

@max4377jk

12:38
Into the video and I realised there is music playing lol

@SuperChaz_

Love that old Monopoly music ❤

@maxsonthonax1020

Australia: bad example. Look deeper into the structure of the economy. I'm out.

Also, you took too long to make your point, by dumbing it down too much. First & last time viewer.

@dsavkay

Amazing engaging video! 💯

@wasimserju2639

Who is this Boat Guy you keep referencing?

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