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Mouse utopia experiment strive9/16/2023 ![]() ![]() These changes are coming to all of Europe and are a big source of upheaval such that quality of life scores done even recently may already be out of date. It could be that America discourages traditionalism in order to foster the melting pot, but the end result is more atomized hyper-individuality. I understand that this is a different thesis from the Mouse Utopia, but it does fall in line with aspects of boundaries. It's always to some degree balkanized and sectarian. I don't like this aspect of human nature, but it's true. Homogeneous societies tend to be more united societies. One difference between the Netherlands and the US cultural track is that the Netherlands (up until now) has been less diverse. Cash crops and food crops are as different as night and day. Sure, sure, when you play the numbers game you are in the California catagory. after-us/ The basic point stands that, contrary to the implications of the Mouse Eutopia model (to the extent that I understand it or that it is even a coherently constructed argument), The Netherlands, in spite of being geographically small, very densely populated, and flush with so much excess produced withing and coming through their borders, exhibits very high levels of happiness and is among the topmost rated countries of the world on most measures of human well being. That still leaves 66.5 billion Euros of their own home grown ag products that they exported. Some €25.5bn of the total was in the form of re-exports from other countries. Not all the exports were produced in the Netherlands, however. US agricultural exports were put at $1.8bn in 2016. Exports totalled €92bn last year, making the Netherlands the second-largest agricultural exporter in the world after the US. The Dutch agricultural sector booked yet another export record in 2017, the national statistics office CBS said on Friday. dohboi Harmless Drudge Posts: 19990 Joined: Mon, 04:00:00 Given the quality and trajectory of "professional" journalism (even in major publications) in the internet era, somehow, I don't think such reporting is going to improve on balance, over time. Maybe we need more precise terms for things like "exports" to avoid such confusion - or more likely we need more honest and informed economic reporters. It's quite another to claim that means the country the port is in is "exporting" all that food, because that clearly (in this context) is implying the country is producing that food. ![]() ![]() It's one thing to state that a lot of goods move through a port. ![]() (Blue text making my presumptive correction of "row" to "grow", mine). Similarly Rotterdam, Holland, exports billions of calories of food, but that food is not grown in tiny crowded Holland. Their tiny geographic footprint doesn't row all that food they are exporting and saying it does juts makes the reporter look silly. Ag Products from a good third of the continent are exported through Rotterdam. Tanada wrote:Netherlands also owns the biggest port in Europe. ![]()
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