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Bitcoin Tech Talk 512 Aug 03, 2026 3 1 Share Interesting Stuff Warm Countries Are Poorer - Tomas Pueyo makes a compelling argument that equatorial poverty is about geography. It turns out that the heat nearer to the equator mean heat and disease which results in more people seeking the coolness of mountains. Then the crushing transportation costs and ethnic fragmentation results in a much less productive society, compared, to, say, cities and countries that have more maritime trade. Readers of Thomas Sowell will be familiar with this sort of argument, which leaves to geography what is typicall
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Bitcoin Tech Talk 512 Aug 03, 2026 3 1 Share Interesting Stuff Warm Countries Are Poorer - Tomas Pueyo makes a compelling argument that equatorial poverty is about geography. It turns out that the heat nearer to the equator mean heat and disease which results in more people seeking the coolness of mountains. Then the crushing transportation costs and ethnic fragmentation results in a much less productive society, compared, to, say, cities and countries that have more maritime trade. Readers of Thomas Sowell will be familiar with this sort of argument, which leaves to geography what is typicall
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