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Japan took in a lot of Jews because of one guy, Chiune Sugihara, who just started stamping visas like mad. They were transport visas though, so IDK how many actually stayed in Japan.

The depth of ignorance here is astounding. Producing and selling something at no profit isn't wealth: it's literally worthless to you. You create wealth by investing in ways to cut costs so that you can provide stuff at a profit and a reasonable price.

? Yes it can? You again don't know what you are talking about. If you are selling donuts at $1, and it takes you $1/donut to produce all inclusive, if you cut costs to $0.50, you are now making a profit. And people invest in order to cut costs all the time. That's what most investment is in...

Yes, I'm criticizing you for coming up with your own stupid definitions. If you have an issue with something, don't muddy the definitions of words by inventing new meanings. That's why racism means nothing anymore. Also, cost cutting does make money. It's one of many ways money is made: finding...

I specified an empty building. Should I point out that it's not worth the money? Seriously, if I spend $5M on a yard of land in a random Scottish forest, am I wealthier? No. I'm not. I can call myself a lord though. It's not a lie. It's a basic definition of what wealth is. For example...

You make some good points, but I think we are getting more and more off topic. Open a new thread? Meanwhile, onto someone who doesn't make good points: "I don't like basic definitions used by economists, so I'm going to invent my own language of make believe". And now we know he doesn't...

All still contained in the definition of wealth. Wealth is net worth. Net worth looks at your trillion zimbabwe dollars and laughs at it, and offers you $5 USD cause it looks cool. Yep, they are useless. So are a lotta hollywood movies that no one watches, but that's not the service economy...

Wealth is a defined term in economics. It's classic redefining a term to achieve an objective, not reflect reality. If she works for Ford, then she's not in the service economy, but the manufacturing one. Again, the distinction is mostly arbitrary.

You don't seem to understand how wealth works, which is a surprise to absolutely no one. Spoilers: money is wealth. Wealth is a person's net worth... which includes money. No, installation/software contracting isn't an edge case. It is textbook service industry. Also, going at your stupid...

First, what's the GDP per capita on both countries? That really matters. But also the high taxes really hits you, but the double GDP is a very good argument, as it correlates with a lot. Really, the number that matters to you as an individual is your effective income (nominal income *(1- tax...

Eh, it's the best measure we have for mass individual good, as it is exactly the net national income, as well as very correlated to a huge amount of good in a society. It's an argument for libertarianism that wouldn't be made by a libertarian to another libertarian, basically. It's definitely...

The caste system? Really, Simonbob has the right idea: It's fine to think about a group, tbc, as long as the group is consensually and explicitly entered into, like a corporation, or even *gasp* a marxist run collective that's consensually entered into (which is why marxist complaints fall...

Sure, I haven't ruled it out either, but there's also no evidence presented here for it in Europe. I'm also not going to believe it just because I want or don't want it to be true.

I mean, they do over time compound, but there's no evidence shown that correlates that to any of the maps, nor is there much evidence here of long term inbreeding in eastern orthodox places. I'm looking for the explanation that best fits. And the explanations that fit best are first communism...

Eh, the question was about if Catholicism's ban on cousin marriages had an effect. Protestantism carried that over mostly, and the territory of Protestantism is a subset of pre-Reformantion Catholic territory. Though Protestantism being more northern and industrial no doubt enhances this...

Not really, and not nearly enough to compensate. East Germany is an exception because Germany actually gave a shit about itself then, and we can still see the cost of communism in it. Everywhere else, we can see the problems brought by totalitarianism. It also clearly has jack shit to do with...

Note that East Germany was purposely lifted out of poverty by West Germany, is still worse off than West Germany, and there are far more flaws with the other possibility. No, the simplest explanation is communism.

Yeah, this really has to do with the USSR/totalitarianism. Note Spain also being screwed cause Franco's legacy, despite being highly Catholic. The explanation offered doesn't explain Poland or Hungary, for example.

Yeah, and also the Supreme court striking down all the civil rights laws was goddamn annoying too. The slaughterhouse cases were wrongly decided. Justice Thomas has it right: bring back the privileges and immunities clause!

I skipped to the part about debt slavery/peonage, which was interesting. He had an interesting idea, but he came at it from a woke place, which was annoying to slog through. But tl;dr: basically there were slaves in America up until September 1942. Not talking sharecropping, but people that were...