Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "1420 by Daniil Orain"
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@abrahamdozer6273 There is a cost for separating the seat of government from the seat of intelligence, learning, talent, energy and culture domiciled in a country's metropolis, or leading city. Say what you will about the usefulness of electronic communications, for intellectual and creative ferment, and for administrative efficiency, there is no substitute for frequent face-to-face contact.
Wellington did not choose Ottawa as the capital, he chose it as one of the end-points of the Rideau Canal, constructed decades earlier. His decision would later factor into its attractiveness as a location, but he was not involved in that process. In fact he was dead, as it was over 40 years later.
[This is a repost, not word-for-word, of what I replied to you earlier. I came by to read a new post to me and noticed my reply had disappeared into thin air.]
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@Bornana7 Russia and Canada do have this in common, that they devote a great portion of their wealth to paying for the energy required for transportation and heating. Generally whatever you buy, whether produced at home or imported, has a long way to go by rail and truck before it gets to you, and every building requires plenty of gas or electricity to keep it warm for half the year or more. In this regard they both compare unfavourably with, say, the US, France or the Netherlands.
All the most energy-thirsty countries are some combination of either very hot (Qatar, Singapore) or cold (Norway, Canada, Iceland), very spread-out (Canada, Russia, Australia), very rich (US, Norway, Luxembourg), or blessed with fantastically cheap energy (the Gulf States, Norway until a recent spike).
In the case of Russia it's also true that they still haven't been at the potent wealth generator of free enterprise, such as it is in that country, for very long. Thirty years might sound like a long time, but it isn't. The fact is that Russia outside of the metropolitan areas is still modernizing. And of course Putin and his cronies siphon off outlandish amounts of wealth.
(Yet, interestingly, its income inequality overall—world rank by Gini coefficient: 87th—is actually quite a bit lower than that of the US, which is 48th. It's the other ex-Warsaw-Pact countries like Slovakia (167) and Ukraine (162) which dominate the lowest, most-equal end of the rankings. See Wikipedia "List of countries by income inequality.")
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