Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Why Are Muslim Countries Poorer? - VisualEconomik EN" video.

  1. Religion tends to be a big factor when it comes to poverty, it limits progress and puts restrictions on what can and can't be done. We see this all over the world, countries that have more religion tend to be poorer for it, even within countries we see the same with countries like the US and Italy, where the north tends to be richer compared to the south, both of which have less religion in the north compared to the south. As for the rest, the blame game on why things are in these countries are just excuses, because they don't want to take responsibility for their own actions. Even in the west, we've seen throughout history how religion held Europe back, only over the last few hundreds of years for them to reduce the impact religion has on people, growth, more flexibility can happen by reducing the impact religion has on the people. Unfortunately, for much of the Middle East, religion has such a hold on them that it's going to be difficult for them to break that hold. The irony is, a lot of these countries like to blame the west for how things are, that's deflecting blame away from where the real problem is, which is much closer to home for comfort, these countries would be poorer if it wasn't for oil and gas purchasing and at least some Middle East countries are trying to use that resources to build a better future for themselves, but unless they can reduce the impact religion has on them, these countries could be in for a rude awakening once the rest of the world are not buying their resources over the coming decades. In any case, stop blaming the rest for all the problems in those countries, there's nothing stopping these countries from modernising, in fact, many of them are in a good position because of the natural resources they have, but the clock is ticking, the value of that resource isn't going to hold with how fast renewable energy is developing, the irony being in that, all that money that developed countries spends on energy, a lot of that will become a massive windfall each year for the EU, Japan and others like that, that don't produce much fossil fuels, so not only does that money get taken away from those fossil fuel countries, but the countries buying it will end up with a massive windfall of money each year, in a sense, the wealth gap could widen a lot more, in favour of countries that buy a lot of fossil fuels but don't produce much, in other words, the EU, Japan and some others. There are other factors that play their part, corruption and too much centralised power that limits growth but in the case of the Middle East, religion is probably the biggest factor holding them back.
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