Why Are Cold Countries Richer Than Hot Countries?
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There are all manner of factors that make poor countries poor and rich countries rich. Many of these factors we have explored in depth when we have looked at economies like the democratic republic of the Congo all the way up to places like Switzerland and Norway.
Political Stability, industry, natural resource wealth are all incredibly important variables but there is something extra here that just doesn’t seem to make sense.
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Brain works more efficiently in colder temp as compared to hotter temp , sometimes it can easily loose upto 40% of its functional ability due to hot climate . Could it a be link ?
Won't the number of men with abnormally muscular right arms balance the average?
People don’t like working in the heat
I have a question . How do billionaire like Jeff Bezos make money without selling stock market share which didn't give divided????How do they pay for there day to day expenses ?????????pls answer my questions
i think you've missed one of the bigger theories, and it's that hotter countries often as more resources, and therefore results in more fighting over resources. but over to the modern age, the service sector earns much more than the production sector, so, while the hotter countries has always been fighting over resourvecs, the colder countries who don't have resources to fight over developes in another way.
and that other way concidentally is the way to be rich right now
According to my maths, Antarctica is the richest country
they don't call them peasant penguins now do they?
emperor penguins
nice
Greenland and northern Canada are super rich, compared to their southern counterparts.
It is the continent with highest average IQ.
It's not wrong actually. The people who works there are all scientists.
How to get rich:
1. Make a country in Antarctica
2. PROFIT
*Pinguin sad noice*
You laugh now, but considering lots of fresh water, lots if oil under the frozen fresh water, and everyone on the continent is a smart genius scientist ... aside from the cold, it has lots of great things going for it.
@@IDBTitanosaurus only if they built a greenhouse shelter dome : )
After that, make a course on how to make a country in Antarctica. That's how you make generational wealth :D
The whole theory of hot vs cold economies is unproven, if that were the case Russia would be extremely wealthy, but it's not, if anything, even within Russia the coldest areas are much poorer than the hotter areas. Some climates are certainly more beneficial and "livable" than others, but to see it as some kind of all-determining factor or even a curse would be a bit daft. There are much much more to it than just climate. And of course, correlation does NOT mean causation.
In India , I see this playing out on a daily basis. In my village in India, around the center of the village, there’s a large banyan tree that provides lush shade. Every year when I visit , I see the same folks ( for around 15 years now) sit around the tree basically do nothing. They sit there , get drunk at night and then back by the tree early in the morning once sober , to just about do nothing.
Still they are happy.No depression,no stress.
@@atiqurrahmanfahim9072 yeah . Alcohol has that effect . And not to mention , make 0 contribution to the economy. If it was all about relentlessly pursuing happiness, we all could sit in a cave blowing smoke signals rather than break our heads to make money, develop tech , art and gadgets.
@@avillageofbigheads man you forget the we are agriculture economy
@@b.l.0427 what has that got anything to do with sitting around doing nothing?
Seriously? This plays out in India? Tropical Southern states are a lot richer than the colder northern ones. Plus he hasn't addressed colonialism in the entire video.
Were native Americans rich? India is said to be pretty rich before the 19th century.
My grade 10 teacher thought northern climates were more wealthy because people in colder climates are forced to be more active and dynamic. This is closely related to the survival/resource storing theory, and they make the most sense to me.
Yes I was also taught the same
Exactly, e.g. in southern Italy you grow some olive trees and you can survive. In Northern Norway it is another ballgame, and you have to work as a team. The closer to the equator, the more entropy (less structure)
And another thing is that malaria kills more people in environments that support bigger populations of mosquitoes
well i mean, Africans are also pretty busy. everytime i see African people in videos they are working, like carrying stuff etc.
That theory actually has a name and is called cold winters theory. Its author is Richard Lynn. You should read his books if you want to know more.
About Singapore, the first thing Lew Kuan Yew did when he was in charge (if I remember his biography correctly) was to introduce air conditioning in all government building, and said nobody can work efficiently if it is so hot.
A wise man
a very wise man...i live in india and summer days sucks
Actually Singapore is rich because it is inhabited by Chinese who have evolved in Siberia.
@@overtonpendulum2071 So Russians? There are no Chinese in Siberia. There are Mongols, but no Chinese.
@@miderwr9363 Chinese are members of the Mongoloid race which stems from Siberia. They are related to Eskimos. Russians stem from Europe and have only conquered Siberia later.
I should make a country in my ex's heart
Oof!
Nice
Haha
Hey there fellow bitter soul.
Kkkkk
i live in Norway, born and raised. One thing i would like to address is the fact that Norway would be a significantly poorer country without natural resources. Norway is one of the largest exporters of oil and natural gas in Europe, which has contributed immensely to its prosperity and wealth.
I remember reading a paper during economics from a Nordic scholar describing how the weather in the Nordics shaped the socio-economic structure of the countries and that + the industrializaiton process made the Nordics the best economies in the world. The best thing (in his own words) was that that explained why their model can't be replicated elsewhere. I loved this video so much.
US is the best economy in the world.
@bighand69
It depends on what metric you use. If you’re looking to create the next Facebook or SpaceX then yes it is the best. If you want to eradicate poverty then Norway and Sweden is better.
@@bighands69 I think Nordics and US respond differently to the question "to who is the economy serving?"
@@bighands69 Not if you're poor and needs to go to the hospital.
@@germanbarba4159
In the US median income is $70000 year with average house prices of $330,000. Median income Norway is $76000 with median house price of $320000. They appear similar on paper but the reality is very different.
House sizes in the US are 2 times larger than in Norway so when there is a correction per size houses are actually cheaper in the US. With Average house size in the US 2400 square feet with average in norway being 1200 square feet. Cars in Norway are twice as expensive as they are in the US. More or less everything in Norway is twice as expensive. Perception can mean very little when it actually comes to reality.
If you've ever lived in a hot climate, then you know that you don't feel like producing anything when it's roasting and humid.
Living in the Middle East check
That's a lie. Total hours worked on avg are higher in these regions than colder countries.
@@ChannelTheGamer More total hours worked doesn't necessarily mean more things produced, also labor laws are different.
@@Yonatan24 that's not what the op said or what I was getting at
But also it has lot of to do with governments in these countries. Richest are usually long term democracies and others had different dictatorships and corruption in last years
I've been telling them for ages to add air-conditioning in the classroom but no one ever listened to me, bummer.
They avoid it by give us 3month holiday in here
Costs too much money, money before children, the American way.
Malaysia still doesn’t have a/c in school? Are you kidding?
@@SyperDT Who said he’s talking about america?
@@starstencahl8985 doesn't matter if they are or aren't, my point is still valid.
I've always believed this was the case ever since I was a kid. Growing up in Ecuador, both my parents were highly educated(something rather rare for their generation) and I remember one conversation we had when I was little, about how in Ecuador you can basically grow anything you want because we probably have the right climate for it, even more, that we can also grow stuff all year long. The concept of seasonal fruits or vegetables is alien to us aside from a handful of specific fruits. Then when I asked my dad if that was good, he told me no because having a perfect climate made us complacent and lazy, and I have noticed that the average Ecuadorian is in fact lazier to some extent. It's engrained in our cult of personality and our climate is probably a big part of it.
True its the same with Southeast Asian.
I live in a tropical country.Ive noticed that when I take a cold shower in the morning before work in the summer (40C) I'm more productive.My theory is that it cools down the blood and since humans have a lot of blood (1.5Liters) it's difficult for it to heat back up to the point where you're hot.
Mean while I take hot showers in winter ❄️
for sure, it wasn't them sucking up resources and wealth from tropical areas. it's gottta be the weather!
So this is why Santa can afford to buy toys for all the children on Earth...
Sometimes, my genius is... it's almost frightening.
Genius
Yes it's the cold.
And a gratuitous amount of labor exploitation
@@thepriestofvaranasi sometimes I think it generates gravity
He doesn’t buy them, his elves produce them, don’t they? Haha
The founding father of Singapore literally said one of the secret of Singapore's success is air conditioning. Temperature matters for productivity.
Also Australia's tropical north and the US deep south lagged behind economically relative to other parts of their countries until air-conditioning was popularised
It's not the temperature. You can see a MUCH better correlation if you compare IQ and wealth.
yeah, pretty sure Singapore being a crown colony has nothing to do with it.
Well, how exactly does the correlation of IQ and wealth relate to temperature? Otherwise im more inclined to believe the studies about hot temperature causing decline in efficiency.
@@georgechoquette5735 Nah is it IQ that predicts wealth or wealth that predicts IQ? IQ levels have been raising in Western nations even though there is a lack of Darwinian selection (since the dumb does not die). Why? Wealth allows people to develop their IQ, you have more time to think if you are not starving. Statically, most people which includes you have average IQs which are not very different to the averages of most countries in the world. Economies are impacted by centuries and you cannot measure the IQ of any civilization more than 100 years ago so you cannot really use IQ. It is impacted by wealth as much as it impacts wealth and the center of the distribution does not change much from country to country. Yes, the tails change but there is not a lot of evidence of how much economic progress a difference in the tails entails.
I knew it! I've been thinking of this phenomenon for years now, and I'm glad you guys finally made it clearer! I knew I couldn't have been the only one to think of this👌🏼😊
I think a simple answer is that it’s easier to work and think in the cold rather than the heat.
Also, when it’s winter, you’re not doing manual labour in pre-industrial times. Industrial times it frees up seasonal farming labour. Modern day you have air conditioning, and not doing any manual labour anyway.
The actual explanation starts at 8:00.
Thank you
Thanks man
the whole video is worth watching imo
Thank you, your a good man
ehh. important context before
I believed a correlation between high incidence of disease and parasites associated with hotter climates would be a talking point as well? Maybe not?
That is an obvious one I would say.
Good point, but cold environment is not the best environment for sapiens either
the brain can be used to think optimally at temperatures below 24 ° Celsius
Absolutely true. Microbes don't do well in the cold. Less time being sick and dying means more productivity.
The social and economic impact of just malaria alone must be quite significant
I had this theory a while back as I tried to think why Africa had fallen so far behind and came to the conclusion with my brother that people living in colder, harsher area's were forced to develop quickly as their survival hinged on it but areas where the weather was more livable, there was no impending doom or catastrophe that set deadlines to develop. It's kind of cool to see that we were right after watching this video :)
If you build 2 factories that are exactly similar, one with air conditioning and the other without air conditioning. Who do you think will be more productive and work harder over longer periods.
I guarantee you the workers in the hot factory wouldn't be able to achieve anything meaningful.
@@vanecap3531weird take that. The hot countries with high innovation were Arabia, Persia, Egypt, etc due to lack of resources. If you're in a rainforest, you won't need capitalism to survive because the natural resources are in abundance.
@@Priapus212 What are you on about, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt's economies are reliant on exportation of natural resources. If you are talking about ancient times then that is completely different and irrelevant with the modern economy and the video itself.
If you think malaria and all other sorts of tropical diseases are livable, I've got a bottle of sickle cell to sell you.
Actually you're wrong
I didn't really know the answer to that question but when I read the title of the video, I immediately thought: Surviving in a cold climate is harder, meaning it requires more work. And people used to work more and work harder for survival will tend to also do so when running a business. I guess, I wasn't too far off with that theory.
ah yes, Australia Inc. an american company
glad someone picked up on that :)
Hey I was supposed to write that, well aren't you Chinese
Edit: Well I am going to have an "accident" soon sooooo......
Stop knocking on the door
That sounds like it would make a mildly interesting video
@@EconomicsExplained yh Half As Interesting definetly did
@@EconomicsExplained I have a question . How do billionaire like Jeff Bezos make money without selling stock market share which didn't give divided????How do they pay for there day to day expenses ?????????pls answer my questions
I'd like to write my whole theory as to why cold countries are richer... but its too hot so I can't be bothered.
Bingo.
We can't even stop sweating indoor.
I should have mow the lawn, yesterday.. was too hot, still too hot today.. I been laying on the couch all day.. I hope it’s a bit colder in the evening. Cause I really need to mow the lawn, maybe tomorrow..
@@eightsprites If it rains tomorrow it might get cool enough for you to mow... wait...
The Ottoman Empire and Ming China were the wealthiest nations before the 1600s. They're not poor because of weather, but because Britain wanted their tea and oil.
This one was particularly well made. Many thanks 🙏
Shout out to the fact that someone actually made a video about this question. I thought it was just me. 😅
I'm not sure if it's the main relationship between the two but the "cold countries" have always been the ones to colonize and drain the wealth. Even in the modern economy there is a brain drain from the more populated hot countries where human life prospers into the cold countries...
I'm probably all over the place. But I still hope it gets the point across. 😅
good point! Also cold countries have low population generally, which is easy to maintain resulting in less corruption, proper education, employment, health care and people get good portion of the countries resources.
nahhhh it's got be the weather!!!
it's so funny how they totally "forgot" about this factor, very convinent to just.. well.. blame it on the weather and the stupidity of hot weather humans
My grandmother a woman that lived in farm land that had no education once told me that
" the people that live in cold weather are more intelligent "
I was just 7 or 8 years old. I don't know why she said that to me. And today I found video about it 😅. She's still alive 89 I'll show her this video
Young workers go to cold countries, while retirees go to warm countries
Not evidence, but when it’s hot af, doing anything outside sucks.
Lee Stauffenecker indeed
and when its cold outside it also sucks
I agree with this theory
@@jeeps005 I think it's all about sweating and being uncomfortable. In the cold, this could simply be fixed by dressing warmer. I think it's also when we work, we produce heat. There's no way for us to reduce it and work at the same time.
@@AwesomeHairo in cold you can't work outside during winter even if you want to. There is no, its uncomfortable. Crops don't grow in snow. Also in Scandinavia there is not that much fertile land. People had to think of producing food in a way it would make them survive cold winters. This mindset came to modern days, when technology allows to produce even in cold times.
The weather outside is frightful, but the wealth is so delightful.
Very profound.
"Make it rain, make it rain, make it rain,..." :D
I really can't stand the cold.
Give me gold
Give me gold
Give me gold
Laughs in mild European winters.
Amazing !
Weather change culture that changes society, and development. I did study it before, and there are a few publications about it, but it's a challenging topic to push into because you develop a bias against some hot places. I lived in both conditions, and I felt the difference in everything.
Hey can you share the publications you mentioned please, I do believe weather shapes the economic culture.
I really love how you give examples and simple explanations afterwards. I learned a lot.
Ahh .....that's why Santa Claus is so loaded. The north pole!
Or that elf slave labor
Isn't he from Lapland or something?
Hi,
Santa Claus lives in Lapland, North pole Santa is just a hoax made by American mega-corporations.
Best Regards
Norwegian mountain troll
@@HENZEK1 He actually lives in Finland
@@Hilariusgamer never seen him here
as a canadian i can assure that temperature plays a serious role. i remember my father preparing for winter while we were still in the last one. he was always planning 3/4 of a year ahead so that we were never caught unprepared by an unexpected cold snap.
How's deadly heat wave affecting you in Canada?
@@Alephbeth17 o
@@leytonval6346 ??
I feel this video understated some of the challenges living in a hot climate, it isn't all peaches and roses. We have to contend with and prepare for tropical storms, hurricanes and droughts. You can have 5 years of amazing productivity wiped out overnight by a massive hurricane and then you are back at square one.
@@danemlive I'm from Indonesia. Indonesia is obviously tropical country and we have more distasters than you think. Mostly volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and a few tsunami. Annually we have more earthquakes than entire Japan (Although earthquakes in Japan deadlier) so the quantities of our earthquakes (both from tectonic or volcanic activities) affected our development for sure. We have a lot of deluges as well but this one isn't entirely natural (Every year our capital Jakarta affected badly so we planned relocate the capital to Borneo island) even deluges aren't that rare in mountainside of high altitude cities.
I think another factor that cold weather plays is the saving up culture of food they had since their winters are rough, I see it as these cultures have a culture of seeking outside their regions more frecuently, and saving up their crops.
I live in Cambodia and have to ride from one university to another at 12PM. I usually find myself exhausted and less productive during my afternoon class. Morning here feels good ;shine and energetic but afternoon is a bit too much, so I usually drink coffee during the afternoon to boost positive mood and productivity and stay hydrate as much as possible. I hate hot climate and love when it’s raining or cloudy. Summer here last for 4 months.
Right.
money makers go brrrrrr its cold
HAHAHAHA this comment wins
10/10 comment right here!
@@EconomicsExplained I have a question . How do billionaire like Jeff Bezos make money without selling stock market share which didn't give divided????How do they pay for there day to day expenses ?????????pls answer my questions
@@jijov.j1545 He still takes home a salary. And he's been selling Amazon stock to fund Blue Origin.
whites vs 3rd world people of color. esp africa. nothing to do with heat or cold. it is the racial make up, but the media makes that out to be racist.
Scientist: Hotter temperatures naturally lead to more aggressive behaviours in human beings.
Viking: Am I a joke to you?
To be fair they were pretty coopperative at home, and were most aggresive when they sailed to warmer climates. Though I suspect that is mostly because it is wiser to rob someone who does not know where you live.
the majority of Scandinavian sailors at the time were not vikings, but instead were traders
I think it's more so that the overwhelming opportunity the vikings had overruled the influence of the weather on their behaviour
The Viking raids correlate with the forced christianisations of Germanic lands and some other transgressions and genocides by Christian lords such as those of Charlemagne. They just didn't start raids for no reason. It was seen as legitimate on the grounds of revenge and continued from that.
i don't think the vikings were particularly more aggressive than any other European culture at the time. the majority of them were farmers or traders. However they were able to mobilize almost their entire male populations for war/raiding because the majority of their population was strong and capable of fighting. there's theories they were healthier because of vitiman D from cod they ate year round. whatever the reasons they were able to smash through the malnourished peasant armies in england
@@sigvardbjorkman hahahaha, for some reason people online feel the need to justify historic agression. For one, what youre saying doesnt matter. And even if it did, its not true! Viking raids had a whole host of factors contributing to it happening, its not so simple you can blame it on someone else. I dont know why youre trying to simplify things, maybe because of nationalism.
Thank you for the insight. When ignoring hidden variables, it seems to me that there’s an obvious one being ignored; colonialism. Colder countries have less resources, they have more motive to invade richer resource (often tropical) to the extent of pillaging. India for example, had no motive whatsoever to invade the Britain. While it might ultimately not be a significant reason, it seems rash to conclude that there are no hidden variables other than the temperature. Thank you!
Was thinking the exact same thing. Not too mention that it's not very scientific to say 'I can't think of anything causing both, so one must cause the other'. There clearly are things like colonialism or just simply geography. Wealth is usually flocked to certain geographic areas so even if colonialism wasn't a factor it wouldn't take that big of a coincident that these just happened to be colder
Adding to your point. Also the financial system. Poor country needs to pay off their debt by interest to reach countries, IMF and other countries funding. Modern slavery, financial trap.
@@WilliamCh999 That's not important though, since the poor and rich countries are already established. That is a consequence of being poor or rich, not a cause.
@@RaduRadonysI agree
Cold countries have many resources (Forest industry and products, water, land, vegetation, grain, animal life, and geological resources such as diamonds, uranium, oil, natural gas, coal, asbestos, potash, potassium, sulfur, cadmium, metal ores- gold, silver, copper, titanium, iron ore, steel, zinc, nickel, lead, and any number of alternate ferroalloys, etc...); they're just limited with regards to growing certain food crops, assuming greenhouses aren't utilized.
wow, this chat section is so positive and filled with information, ideas and opinion
Hot temperatures make people exhausted, tired, sweating.
In hot summers I do not feel very productive, but more likely to take holidays, eat ice-cream and lay on the beach.
me too
That is because the process of making energy generates most of your heat and when your body freaks out as it needs to be keep it’s organs the same temperature It lowers the energy making process in order to not produce any unneeded heat. Just a link theory
Recovery from cold is a lot better than recovery from heat. When you eat ice cream on a hot day or go for a swim you still feel hot. But when you drink hot chocolate or warm soup during the cold you feel your entire body warming up.
@@demonetization6596 this is because it’s a lot easier for the body to make heat without killing itself than the other way around.
Plus disease.
“In colder environments people are forced to be more tolerant of one another.” Tell that to the Russians lol
Slavs in general...
As slav I confirm, cold weather doesnt make you more tolerant.
@@yoshypl9901 unhealthy vodka consumption*******
this is averaged out by the Canadians though and then you land somewhere in the middle like Germany who are aggressive but friendly (unless you are Poland)
I am Russian. We consider ourselves nice, peaceful, tolerant people with a zero level of aggression.
I thought I would never be able to find someone that has the same thought regarding that matter as I do. I have always thought that it is not a coincidence, but I did not have any solid foundation to discuss mi idea. This video gives me more insight into the topic. Thanks.
This was a eye opener
You forgot to mention one major reason why the ancient civilisations where located in warm areas. It is because these area's where the first to reach a climate that was good enough to raise crops in. When ancient egypt and mesopotamia where founded, the European continent was still too cold following the last ice age.
Correct
Until they got salty and jealous and decided to ruin everyone's lands so their shitty lands will become good by default because of the low standard...
Hi@@rohankishibe8259
Explain how western European growth outpaced African growth independently of colonies:
• 1000 AD, GDP of wester Europe: 10 926 million $ (1990 currency).
• 1500 AD, GDP of western Europe was 44 183 million $ (1990 currency).
• 1000 AD, GDP of Africa was 13 836 million $ (1990 currency).
• 1500 AD, GDP of Africa was 19 383 million $ (1990 currency).
Thank you.
Source: 1-2008 (Maddison)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP)
@ⵎⴻⵙ ⵓⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖ if after all the examples i gave above, and in other comments, and you still think Europe is rich because of crops, there is no helping it...
Good point. There is obviously a limit to which coldness can be of benefit and it is definitely not a linear relationship. So using linear regression is going to produce flawed results.
"I can't think of a hidden variable, so there isn't one."
That was awkward.
It's the obvious elephant in the room. One day we will be forced to confront it
HMMMMMM
Apparently, this guy has never heard of colonialism or imperialism.
I was going to say the hidden variable could be geographic location. It wouldn't make sense to say that higher national wealth causes lower national temperatures, but geographic location has a strong effect on temperature and could potentially affect economic productivity (through some method other than temperature) as well. (And yes, that alternate vector might be through racial demographics.)
cause hot countries have black people
I didn’t expect a mini data analysis class.
Their money printing machines dont heat up and cause problems, and ice pack is best for an infla(mma)tion.
Do a video on Ireland
Honestly?
Hilarious! And more than a little accurate! From a citizen of the world's biggest money printer.
"There is more aggression in hotter regions." After moving to Arizona we noticed how quickly we got cranky in the summer. All those legendary gun fights in the south west began to make sense.
Haha! I can relate! I never want to go outside in the summer unless I’m going in the pool.
Cold weather makes me lethargic and calm.
Vikings would like to disagree but def cold makes u more chill lol
@@lightr2187 I finally get the meaning of "Chill out"
@almh tarif ik but they're probably most fearsome warriors
Hot is agricultural, Cold is manufacturing. Manufacturing makes more money than agriculture.
Also explains why cold showers make us more active/productive in the day compared to a warm one.
Summary: Heat makes us lazy. Also it takes more resources to cool a place, compared to heating it (Heater vs AC)
I factor that you missed when mentioning ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia was that the nations needed to be organised to deal with the spring floods of meltwater and have sufficient stockpiled food to last during this time.
Just like those living in colder northern climates they were forced to engineer and plan to survive.
Darwin is also not as wealthy as Sydney or Melbourne due to the age of the cities. Sydney was settled by the British much earlier and had better farmland and nearby resources like coal in the Blue mountains and iron ore in Wollongong. Melbourne had similar benefits as well as being the entry point for people coming for a gold rush and the exit point for all that gold. Their climate was also much nicer to live in with in the age before air conditioning.
And that both places had a different climate back then. The Sahara was way greener than today.
Exactly. Hot regions are also seasonally productive, as there is a dry season. Thus hot regions need stockpiling of resources as well. The correlation is much better explained by the fact that rapid industrialization started in Europe due to steam engine and their colonization of the world. Because cooler climate was more compatible for them, they preferred cooler places to live causing them to develop those places more.
@@SwapnilSemwal I agree, there's also the issue of how recently a nation was formed, in the British Isles they finished their tribal wars centuries ago, in many of the colonized nations nearer the equator those tribal wars continue. A country will not become wealthy as long as it's at war with itself. Countries in temperate climates like the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand brought in a mass of people that were already predominantly countrymen, whereas the various tribes that make up a country like Liberia (as a random example) are, only in recent decades, forming a sense of national unity, putting aside old tribal rivalries. Other tropical countries that are becoming wealthy are much further along the path to having their populations think in terms of being countrymen rather than members of this or that tribe.
When he used the analogy of every American male having 2 arms, I thought he was talking about firearms. I was thinking, “Yeah that sounds about right. A ton of Americans hoard a large Arsenal of weapons so I could see it averaging out.”
Danny, you rock my man !
Those were my thoughts exactly. In fact, I thought his numbers were low at first.
I've got two guns, so sounds about right.
There’s like 500 million civilian firearms in the US, sooo… close, I guess?
@@kyh148 "Arms" historically includes non-firearms also. Let's see... bo staff, kali sticks, two machetes, target bow, hunting bow, Ka-Bar, sledgehammer, ax, hatchet... haven't even opened the gun safe yet. :)
I've noticed it too. Seems like countries with cold season are more developed than those that don't have. I'm from the Philippines.
I am surprised that no one jumped on the statement "Given that there is no hidden variable between temperature and GDP, it is safe to assume that this correlation is not spurious". There is so much wrong with that statement. The problem with hidden variables is that they are hidden: One can never know if there is a variable that is still missing from the equation. The best one can say is that we do not know of any other variables that can explain this correlation. Secondly, given that the relationship has inverted over time, it is *not obvious* that it is "not spurious". The hallmark of a spurious correlation is that it is small (such as R-sq = .09, though this is context dependent) and that it changes in a seemingly random or inexplicable way (however, I would argue that this change is neither random nor inexplicable). Thirdly, we know of many variables that lie between temperature and GPD: Some listed in the video include technology and social proclivities. There are other candidates. Finally, one must understand that "temperature" is (what I call) a "proxy" variable. It is a stand-in for everything that is associated with temperature (much like gender is a proxy for everything that is associated with gender). One problem with proxy variables is that the associates can change depending on context making it difficult to pin down the true causal relationship(s).
When I was a kid I thought cold war means war between countries that snow
Technically this is accurate. The USA and Russia both get a lot of snow.
@@japanpanda2179 can agree
When I was kid I thought Apollo 11 was launched in 11th century
@@engineeredarmy1152 I confused cause where is the remaining 10 Apollos?
@@ScienceAndBeyondSAB Appollo program is a historic moon mission launched by NASA in late 60s and early 70s. Apollo 11 was the rocket which helped Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to land on Moon, first ones to do so thus creating history.
Theory: People are more tolerant of each other in colder weather.
Vladimir Putin: Hold my vodka
You mean vodka
*vodka correct it or I would spam you with reports
Dictators can exist anywhere. History is full of examples.
Yeah those calmed goths and Vikings...
Just look at Russia's national diversity on wiki . We ARE tolerant.
You can't really work well in heat. Forest clearing here is done during winter for example. The ground is stiff so you don't sink into the ground, and there are no bugs or snakes to bite you, and also you don't overheat doing it. But I think overall, the culture changes in the cold to be more friendly to ones ingroup.
I might just do my bachelor's thesis on this! Hope you don't mind 😅
“Lets look at the dAHtAh”
"The dahter is pretty simple."
At least we don't say it as daytah
More Dahkah better
I guess because of different accents, there's no real way to say that word now xD
Prachetas Nayse If there’s not a solid consensus of how to said it, what it is really the way thinks work though?
*Why are cold countries richer?*
Russia: "hey how do i do that?"
The problem with Russia is corruption and that people in the coast are very disconnected each other
So much terrain for so few people
In the center of Russia there's no cold, it's hot, no rain only sun like the center of USA
Pd: even tho humans like water
If it wasn't for the Mongols Russia, China and Persia would have Industrialized in the early-1300s
@@christiandauz3742 you can't never predict the future
I don't imagine electricity in the 1300
@@christiandauz3742 ok, you enjoyed your stay in dreamland now please exit back to reality
@@christiandauz3742 If it weren't for the mongols i doubt russia would even exist
Loved this..as from.island tropics and i askex myself same question.you answered it wonderfully😮
Very interesting video! I wonder if anyone has looked at the correlation between average temperature and "long-term orientation" as measured among Geert Hofstede's "Cultural Dimensions." If would seem like colder cultures would be expected to have a higher score on that metric.
I'm from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and I can clearly see it here. When the weather is nice and not too hot for walking outside - basically moderately sunny, and maybe a little breezy and cloudy - people's mood is suddenly waaay better, and productivity goes in the roof!......Also, heat expedites exhaustion. It cripples people, and makes them unable to perform on an optimal level!
That used to be true in the American South, before air conditioning. AC made the South what it is today.
@@incognitotorpedo42 lol u knw they hav AC too right... like lol do u think Saudi is a uneducated ppl living in desert? 😂 And the south is still the dumbest part of America. North is were the wealth and educated are
I live in Cyprus, we're are literally in middle of mediterranean sea. Normal day for us is like 38-40 degrees everday i feel like sick. Why? I don't want to eat, i don't want to move (lazy), i don't want to sleep. If i ever lived in 0 or minus country i don't think i would have the same characteristics...🤔
@@saleh.hashmi Do you think I'm an idiot? I said nothing about Saudi Arabia. I was only talking about the US South.
No. EE meant that people in colder climate are just better, more clever, more organized, more industrious. All that usual nazi stuff. Not like you, lazy hot climate creature. And that's why I'm so disgusted by this video.
I'm so glad he considered that in many of those countries, homelessness in the winter would become lethal.
Homeless people in Alaska are found frozen all the time
@@eugeniorey4565 Hence why there are no homeless people in Alaska.
@@elliotjames5172 *few
Not in Europe tho. Homless people get a place to live and food from the government.
@@whyparkjiminnotridejimin the welfare state is way too recent to affect what this video is about
People work when it's cold. When it's hot people sit around sunning themselves
Yeah yeah! People work all day invading, committing genocides, throwing drones, enslaving African during cold
I guess in cold areas people are prone to better at survival tactics, hunting skills, team gathering and much more which tend to makes you think harder but in case with hot countries which are mostly tropical areas are already rich with some basic resources like food and water so it's doesn't really motivates you to think harder.
"Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden" * shows stock footage from Amsterdam *
The Netherlands is just water Germany
@@carlosandleon Netherlands: Water Germany
Belgium: Waffle Germany
Switzerland: Mountain Germany
Norway: Fjord Germany
Sweden: Snow Germany
Finland: Social Distancing Germany
Poland: Decidedly not Germany
This is a deliberate mind game that is employed in several of their videos.... why they go through the trouble of creating informative videos only to spin our heads with mixed images is inexplicable.
@@flp322 you're giving Germany too much credit when it should be the other way around since the northern culture came from the north
@@flp322 50% of Poland: Former Germany.
There was this italian from the south who said he met a businessman from Milan on holiday in Sicily (his region) and started to speak about how hard he had to work to get to that point and afford a holiday in the south. The sicilian answered that once upon a time he wanted to do the same and decided to move to Milan, in the free time he wanted to go out but it was cold and foggy, nobody in front of the bar to chat with, so he decided to stay inside and work more. One week later the same and the same and the same. After one month he realised it was better to come back to sicily because he realised since he was sicilian he didn't need to run a business in Milan to go to the seaside...
This simply needs more likes.
BASED
Got us in the 1st half
I don't get this, if anybody could explain that would be great, thanks.
@@raymondqiu8202 That cold climate forces you to work, while hot climate already provides you with what you want. Therefore those who live in colder areas are much more productive, you see how much both of them worked while in Milan. That helps society, while in the south not the same amount of work needs to be done to get a proper living, but you also never get farther than that.
At least I think that's what the story is about?
What about avg. IQ vs GDP per capita? African countries are known to have worse natural selection for intelligence, meaning that the avg. IQ is much lower there. And IQ is a pretty good proxy for a successful modern economy.
Very nice
"Switzerland, Norway, Sweden." While showing a clip of Amsterdam
That was Copenhagen
@@paddybpaddyb9940 no it was not
You can see the building of Nemo. A museum with a very destinct building. And that is in Amsterdam.
@@Ryzanu so true
According to this logic, does this mean that Economists should be more freaked out by Global Warming than anyone else?
he said that at the moment countries do not need to be power farm houses of food because they can trade food for other services, so these advantages are less and less important.
@@nocivolive Global Warming affects far, far more than agriculture, bro.
Global warming doesn't exist...
@@cmath4871 I hope you're kidding
@@ezekiel8660 Why kid when the biggest joke are the sheep who blindly follow the agendas in place supporting this climate change nonsense.
Well, the first problem is using government-manipulated GDP numbers that don't take into account debt.
In hot countries You can allways find fruits, bananas or fish at hand to survive, while un cold countries, you must store sufficient food, heat source and cover to survive in winter, which requires discipline, hard work and organization...
True story, but way back when I was a teenager (I'm in my late 30s now) I had this observation. Having lived most of my life in a tropical country I wondered why richer countries are almost always cold. My simpleton mind simply concluded that it's because they'd die in the winter if they didn't have proper shelter, whereas in tropical countries people wouldn't really need to prepare for such event. For the longest time I just accepted that conclusion of mine, good to know that there's actually a sliver of truth to it.
I live in a hot country, Nigeria and things have never seemed to be going well here. At a time, I studied in the UK, a cold country and there was just too much of a difference for me to process. Ever since I returned, to my hot country to meet the same set of issues, I've never stopped trying to analyse the entire world of difference between my two experiences. I currently work in a firm headed by a white guy, an Italian, and our office is always air conditioned..I can now see why. If a Nigerian was the Boss, he won't have bothered much about air conditioning. And our productivity would be much lower.
Also, there are hot places that experience cycles of dry when plants won't grow, so they have to store up food, too. Thus making humans who plan ahead survive... and careless ones die...
@@JohnFekoloid Could you estimate the ratio of practical thinkers in your region? I'm so practical that I often do completely unnecessary things just because they're more practical. It boosts my mood to be more practical. Like mixing powdered milk into the noodles in the pan instead of fully draining the noodles for mac&cheese. That way I don't need to use a measuring cup or waste noodles down the drain by accident.
Also do not neglect the role of institutions in former colonies. Colder countries were selected as settlement colonies, where the Europeans provided opportunities for growth when they ruled and lived in it. Hotter countries were extraction colonies (the European settlers could hardly live there). From these countries, resources were extracted while the benefits went abroad. Moreover, the colonists left institutions that would still pose a barrier to economic growth decades later.
Most countries that now have a relatively high population of white people are wealthier than their neighbours (an exception may be Argentina which went through some economical crises), and this is not because of white superiority but primarily because of colonial institutions. Even within former colonies, most wealth is usually located in more "white" areas.
@@KWifler There's loads of practical people in Nigeria. It might be very surprising that despite that, things still don't get on properly. The main hindrances are things that have to do with the government. Having good access roads to your business, having electric power supply to your region, repair and maintenance of failing infrastructure. These things keep failing and preventing us from taking big steps. There's many industries closed down now, due to no power, no fuel to run generators and no security to protect their investment. So many touts about the place stealing and the police not really dishing out justice.
"Hot weather makes people more aggressive"
Vikings: Are we a joke to you?
The norsemen were actually fairly cool lads, with the vocal minority of those head bashers in England.
Vikings were way less aggressive than other civilizations in the south.
Hitl@r and the cold British who conquered most of the world: We aren’t anywhere as aggressive as other people who live in hot places.
Vikings went raiding but the southern countries came and straight up took over your country and enslaved them.
@@artman7780 The British empire was so massively powerful and more than fifteen centuries ahead technologically from most of the non-european world so she could colonize everything that resisted her even by accident or noble intentions. In this historical sense it really appears to me that it was anything but a despicable, warmongering genocidal practice.
the fight to adapt creates a momentum that drives them into extra productivity
The book Guns, Germs and Steel has some insight into these issues; definitely an interesting read
"The problem with Scotland, is that it's full of scots!"-Edward Longshanks
My Australian friend said the same think (too many Australians) when I asked if he liked going to Bali Indonesia
Interesting that you bring up Scotland as Britain unlike Australia does not match the colder is better argument he makes. But does make the more obvious colonialism/empire one. Since the British Empire is really the English Empire. So we would expect England to do better than Scotland.
Look at the number of inventions in the modern world (certainly, prior to the new tech-age of FAANG (Facebook Apple Amazon Netflix and Google) and see just how innovative the Caledonian and Scottish people have been throughout history; extremely productive in terms of innovation, relative to population.
@@AaronDoud Well, from what I know about English/Scottish history...
Things might have gone differently if the Scots hadn't been so busy stabbing each other in the backs... figuratively and literally.
On the other hand, it might have had a great deal to do with their geology, rather than geoGRAPHY. Scotland is pretty rocky, as I recall... kind of hard to grow crops up there due largely to the lack of good soil which is also deep enough to support crops.
The English and Welsh were probably in a pretty good "sweet spot" in terms of climate, natural resources, etc., just as the Romans benefited from their Mediterranean climate.
Scotland is literally for the Scotts. It is their ancestral homeland.
When the weather is hot, I perform poorly in my job than when it's cold, I feel refreshed the whole day.
if your feeling refreshed when it's cold in your country, then its not cold, it's cool. I live in Brisbane, Australia and I thought that the I preferred the cold to the heat, but my baselines were just messed up. Brisbane has a meteoritic summer and no winter (it's the middle of winter right now and I just went for a walk in summer clothing and thongs without even noticing the cold, not to say that some days/weeks aren't cold) so between my "cold" and my "hot", the cold was better and I always felt 'refreshed', then I was in Japan in winter on a trip, it's not better. I loved the snow and skiing, but the feeling was not refreshing it was distracting, energy-draining, and made me want to just rug up inside and stay near a heater indefinitely.
@@Helios6221 I live in the Philippines and yep. Cool is the word.
James Noye Yeah at least there are more people with heater in cold countries than people with air conditioning in hot countries.
@@TheGamingAlong historically that mattered a lot as burning wood could help with the cold, but there's no real option for heat which is as versatile. However modern heaters don't cost that much less if any less than coolers (most air conditioners are both). It's just the developed countries tended to be cooler, which meant they could afford by modern heaters. This is why in Australia, despite being a hot country, is a highly developed country and everyone has air conditioners.
In cold countries, in Winter, heat is a life-or-death necessity.
AirCon is a luxury even in hot countries. A hundred years ago, our ancestors didn't have air con, and they made it... even Arabs in the Sahara, Navajo and Pueblo in the American SW, Chinese in the Gobi, etc.
people are relaxed in moderate climate and farmed
AND in Europe climate is harsh
so they could not always depend of farming
thus industrialization started there fast
I came across the same question when I was in Canada, I think cold countries need to develop more to heat places in-doors, also take care of icy or snowy roads and other difficulties that come with cold weather that tropical countries wouldn't have to face. Maybe that extra challenge forced them to develop more, hence they are now more developed countries.
Problem with this theory is that Scandinavian countries were not particularly wealthy pre WW2. Another problem is that Renaissance started in Italy.
One of the wealthiest cities in the whole world was Havana during the Spanish golden age. There are so many exceptions to this theory that it becomes worthless.
I used to subscribe to it but changed my mind slowly because the whole theory is just a post-ww2 accident.
Regarding industrialization, UK has milder winter than the Balkans - because the sea acts as a heat capacitor, and yet industrialization didnt start in the Balkans which are colder in winter time.
Yeah, plus a lot of modern nations in hotter climates have good economies, it just can't be a rule.
Regarding your last statement, that’s why the R value that was supposedly calculated by them is only 9%.
Yep, it started in the UK because they had the right set of institutions, while eastern Europe were much closer to feudalism at the time
Constantinople, Egypt, Malaga so many examples etc... even in america the maya and aztecs were richer than their north american cousins
historically speaking it was the hot countries who were rich
Exactly what i was thinking
Singapore would say: “Economic Freedom and Adherence to the Rule of Law.” Nuff said.
Singapore got air conditioning everywhere.
@@TheGamingAlong Singapore had little to none AC 50 years ago when it started to prosper.
74% of Singaporeans are ethnic Chinese. In other words, migrants from a country outside the tropics with cold winters.
Its a tiny city...
Try managing India Brazil or even China
Its a tiny city...
Try managing India Brazil or even China
I think the fact that more people settled and lived in warmer countries in the older times has a role to play too. Because of the climate, the population in warmer countries is generally larger and supporting such a large population becomes difficult. on the other hand, a colder country has lesser people and it is easier to support that population
Could also be that each person can work only limited hours in the heat so more people were needed
A larger population is actually great for an economy, while a small or falling population can spell trouble.
@@secondsea2 yes fair enough. It's great for the overall gdp but not the per capita, poverty and other individual indicators
Oceanic and Mediterranean climate countries are rich than humid continental and tropics
"Now that this has been proven anecdotally true at all levels..."
Lol fantastic isn't it.
Great video, but I think you missed a major contributing factor to human development and the progress of civilization, infectious disease and specifically malaria. The tropics support a much higher burden of disease that puts downward pressure on human achievement and progress. A great example is Italy, the southern areas of Italy are less developed because they struggled for centuries with malaria outbreaks. While in northern Italy the mosquitos would die during the winter giving the population a break from malaria. Singapore was only able to develop after mosquito control became available in the 1960-70s. A great book on this topic is Plagues upon the Earth by Kyle Harper.
Oh yeah, I had this question since I started being good in countries.... thanks!
"There is no third variable to link prosperity and temperature" but "we don't know the link between them", so how do you know there is no third variable?
Because of the way we frame the question. With the ice cream and drowning example, the implied causation would be something to do with eating ice cream making you more susceptible to drowning. Any third variable would fly in the face of that.
With cold climate and GDP, any "third variable" would actually just be the sought-for mechanism: as the direct link, eg. a higher GDP makes your country colder or the country being colder makes your GDP go up, is obviously incorrect.
Like he just declared that the correlation was not spurious with even trying to demonstrate it. That's strange unless he already had some ideological commitments.
the third variable being IQ. colder climates raised the IQ or the people through selection, as the video explained. the people with lower IQ were more likely to die out in the winter
@@aymericst-louis-gabriel8314 Economists do this all the time. In the video, there is no mention at all of the history of northern countries exploiting colonies in the global south to advance their economic interests, which contributed to their material wealth prior to industrialization.
At the end of the video he mentions how nice it is the economics can help us answer the question “why” things are the way they are. But by ignoring this history of north-south relations and discussing economic disparities as simply a function of hard-working-planning-for-the-future northerners, he effectively removes this from discussion. It’s all about the weather and those hot blooded southern types. The end of the video is full of general assumptions with no evidence.
Must be the temperature, because we can quantify that. Unlike history and politics, which can be conveniently ignored to justify the “naturalness” of the current system.
@@FulgurInteritum Because obviously people on the south required no intelligence whatsoever for hunting, understanding animal behavior and its relationship to the seasons, finding water during droughts, surviving plagues and dealing with changes in climactic patterns. Please.
"Hot countries are more aggressive"
Europe from 1939-1945: average temperature: 50 Celsius
@Márk Bányai I'm literally about to play Hoi4 with a mod called "Apres Moi Le Deluge" :P
Unless you're Germany invading Russia... ;)
@Márk Bányai Don't worry, the UK's guarantees will be sure to cool down the world tension.
Interpersonal violence =/= mass war organized by governments
@@yadinandyanay "Mass war organized by goverments" or just war
Cold countries had an advantage due to the cold killing bugs and diseases. Which lead to higher productivity and higher wealth. Guns Germs and Steel.
Colder countries were less aggressive ? That’s a very bold statement considering the damages done by colder countries onto warmer countries in recent centuries.
In terms of evolution , Agriculture and life was easier in warm countries than the colder countries where people needed constant innovation to survive. This survival race ( during ice ages at Europe) sharpened them and forced them to explore the world and lead to expansion of trade.
We can also argue that The poor, rainforested regions of the tropics had poor agricultural soil and had to deal with more tropical diseases and unwanted insects, reducing productivity
I don't think this a big factor of cause to European exploration. Probably has some influence, but I think it's very little. See, if this was true, north American natives would be colonizing the world before the Europeans, since even if they are at the same "line" of Europe, and it's much colder. Or the Asians in Siberia and northeast China as well... And also, Ice ages affected the whole world, many natives had to adapt as well and humanity was almost extinct.
@@TheVetein Native Americans exterminated horses in western hemisphere. Without horse, you have only human muscles to use in agriculture. And without horse all that gigantic distance in grassland was pointless as you could only cover those distances by foot. So no big interconnected empire. No big trade routes with caravans. Everything had to be scaled down to human abilities.
Can you imagine Asia without horse. Genghis Khan would die sooner of old age than he would reached first kingdom to conquer. /hyperbole
Jothi Ranjan Also since for whatever reason Europe never was fully conquered by one country so there were always competition (wars) between countries unlike say China which is why China lost its edge militarily since it was top dog for a long time. If Spain had a lot of colonies then France, UK, Germany....had to get some also otherwise they will be disadvantaged during the next big war. Which is partially why Germany lost both wars.
@@TheVetein ua-cam.com/video/JEYh5WACqEk/v-deo.html
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MrJermson from what climate did Singapore’s main ruling ethnic group come from ?
Tomas Paul Southern China is really really warm though.
Most of the ethnic majority are sourthern Chinese-a warmer clime than northern and certainly better positioned to emigrate to the state than their northern counterparts...
isle9 Even southern Chinese ancestors came originally from the northern climates
Tempest Liu yes but have read the migration patterns ? Northern Han conquering down south - plus Singapore was set with English common law also a northern culture - so Singapore is a metaphorical island of northern heritage in a southern climate
Growing up in the Philippines, a tropical country, I remember a time in elementary school when only few of the classrooms in my school had airconditioning and most didn't (unfortunately for me all classrooms I had in elementary didn't have airconditioning). Every noon and afternoon classes is such a chore and very draining.
By the time I was in highschool, my school had most of its classrooms airconditioned. I wasn't used to the cold, so I feel like I'm having hypothermia at 23-25 degrees celsius. To combat the cold, I had a jacket on and I found out that the more I listen to my teachers and think, the less I feel I am cold. For a long time, I have concluded that the colder the temperature, the more active the human brain will be out of necessity, hence, producing successive generations of people who wants or NEEDS to innovate for survival.
It's nice to know that there is a hint of truth to my thinking, and maybe the reason why we were a third world country (nowadays I think we are called a developing country) is more because of the economonic growth proportionate to the innovative tech, military, or industrial products or services that the country could provide to other nations, and not because my people are stupid.
Tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me you didn't watch the video. You completely miss the point. Cold climate is harsh on humans. Westerners were force to store resources (which makes them more responsible) and constantly innovate new ways to store or find resources. Nothing to do with humans' brain prefer warm or cold air. I mean even if it's true, this video didn't say anything of that sort.
Also people in hot countries tend tk be more pessimistic and gullible. If someone tells them they are a third world country, they just listen and accept it as an absolute truth.
@@munnashah1195unscientific conclusion
@@munnashah1195 lol, totally not true in my experience living in a hot place
@@munnashah1195 this is true and untrue at the same time
my takes on this very interesting subject are...
1. in early ages more people settled in warmer places and hence the population surge which now gives per capita GDP less
2. people in temperate climates engaged in farming majorly while those in colder ones invested in industrialization as farming was not feasible... the latter gave higher returns
3. colonization was more in temperate places due to high availability of resources and cheaper labour... resulting in resource drainage
4. most importantly, in my views, people in colder climates has and maintains greater energy due to weather and hence can work more in a conducive atmosphere resulting in greater productivity and wealth...
"Germany, Switzerland, Norway and Sweden"
*Shows footage from Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Man, it's a (practically) free video on You Tube. If you want to change this shocking defect go ahead and donate to EE.
Yeah, pretty much the average of those countries then.
@San Coca, good eye!
Oliver Rimes lol why can he just share his thoughts? Oh so because something is "free" the it gotta be shitty? Man we have different standards definitively
People during the ice age : stonks
@Vatsavai Venkata Satya mangapathi raju *Crafts woolly mammoth bone-wheel. git gud scrub. *rolls into you
I always has this thought in my mind
When I saw this video title I immediately opened it
they dont have much farmlands, so they need to import food. to do this, you need money, and to get it they build industries that are getting more and more profitable.