This country sucks, and could learn from Norway

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Germany and the US are also examples of countries relying on industry instead of agriculture and natural resource exporting. They are also both examples of states who went to great lengths to protect themselves while building up their industry.

Spain, on the other hand, is an example of a country with a huge surplus of a valuable resource(gold), which then de-industrialized the country and made them poor for centuries after.

It invalidates your point than only countries with no natural resources are rich. Bing, you lost - You owe me a drekar (with crew), three hot French slave girls and a complement of axes.

In a century or so you can probably add Norway to that list. Be kind and give my grandchildren a nickel when you pass them on the streets, will you?

If Norway regress to poverty in a century or so, Serbia will probably regress to tribal community, so I won't be able to give your grandchildren a nickel, but I'll be happy to give them some ointment and boar's testicles to chew on to make them more manly.

I'm done with this thread unless the OP responds on why don't they protest en masse until something changes.

Because it's hard to get people with one of the highest average salaries in the world to go out and protest poverty, isn't it?