One of These Islands Found Oil, The Other Got Rich 

nice vid

hi

RAD!

You really went all out with the editing having Baianá playing softly in the background. I love that song

Why nightcrawler instrumental?

Someone should have told Guyana this…

@@bababababababa6124and Venezuela, Angola, East Timor, I could go on

So you're saying The Beverly Hillbillies lied to us?!

Freedom gang will find out before your wife

Don't let any "eagle" fly past that either, 🦅

It’s geographical proximity to Europe and North Africa definitely gives it the edge over Sao Tome. The only major economy close to Sao Tome is Nigeria, and I’m sure most Nigerians probably don’t even know they exist 💀

​@@vardekpetrovic9716one thing missing in ur coment: do sao tomens want such plan?

Europe are richer, more stable and have more attractive looking pppl meanwhile iafrica is completely opposite, unfair

@@vardekpetrovic9716 220 000 in the 2023 estimate from wiki. I've been to sao tome, wonderful people. The island is offers plenty of food as is. So, they are poor but don't lack food and shelter. They also need to decide from the various models available which suits best for their aspirations. Sometimes people prefer to not get rich and keep the paradise (the island is a paradise of natural beauty) for themselves. Foreigner might come as rude to them (they have a very polite and proper way culturally). So, I don't know, I just know is fully up to them, thru their democratic institutions to decide.

@@vardekpetrovic9716 still their problem. It's a small group of people, they mostly know each other as if aquaintance, like a small city. If there is corruption is because they allow it. When there was an atempted coup (aux par with the ones felt in other parts of africa recently), the citizens took to the streets and blocked the coup guys from usurping the elected power seats. The only thing I can add that isn't in their hands is portugal, angola and brazil medeling, mostly portugal (also with their own respective corruption). It's a situation like iceland, so few people that it's almost possible to contact politicians via simple phone call.

Why

Isn't it the national animal

@@outofideas9985 ni

@@outofideas9985No that’s the Golden Eagle, is right in the middle of our flag

@@outofideas9985not but it’s native to only Mexico

Genuine question here my friend, as Venezuelan, what does the average Venezuelan genuinely think about taking over Guayana? I don’t mean any disrespect or anything like that, just genuinely interested. Peace be with you.

@niyanlan8928 short version is that we believe the terrotory is venezuela's to claim. Long version is that Venezuelans have been told growing up the territory of Guyana esequiba belongs to Venezuela, It's in every history textbook as a zone in reclamation. The history of that claim goes back centuries, the lines were drawn pretty arbitrarily by the British right over existing venezuelan territorial claims, and in further litigations we ended up being cheated out of that land in the early 1900s. My understanding is we had agreements with Guyana not to exploit the resources of the zone until the claims were resolved but the Guayanese government. Breached those agreements. That's why Venezuela is so pissy about it and could potentially go to war for it. Venezuelans don't know war and are right now in a horrible position so I doubt that would happen and we would just have to resign to the claim.

@@Ingcivilcarlos that’s really interesting to hear. I suspect such things don’t get reported fairly outside South America and it’s really good to hear what people actually believe. Stay safe and take care.

A lot of petrostates go through something like what your country did (only they tend to have their worst inflationary periods have averages of 30% most of the time, sometimes reaching 1000% for the less competent states, but nothing like the Bolivar's drop in value) but usually they need to find the oil to start the same playbook.

@@niyanlan8928 well maybe they aren't listened to because the people of Guyana Essequibo are the ones who should be asked, considering, you know, they live there. Not to mention, Venezuela used to accept Guyana's independence in the past. they just changed it and rewrote the history books

Viva São Tomé e Príncipe!

You guys are lucky. My country is on the Internet 24/7, too much attention. Sick of it

prob the USA​@@blackcoraltv6787

@@blackcoraltv6787 let me guess, japan

Cabo verde is almost always ignored...

Pooping on company time my brother

@@whatsup7033 that's exactly how it's done 🤙

Yup, I can relate.

Boss gets a dollar, i get a dime, thats why i poop and watch h0ser on company time

Same here chief

What about them?

@@tomlxyzno innovation

@@harrygroundwater2590Australia has some of the best innovation in the world. And a strong economy. Maybe the US or Canada would be better to show but still Australia isn’t bad.

@@harrygroundwater2590 in my industry (energy conversion and storage), Australia is doing just fine when it comes to innovation.

@@darkbrightnorth what innovation Australia did...!! Name some of them

me too brudda

It's most likely not a stroke of luck. He knew what he was doing.

Alot of people in the comment section have mentioned that. After i finish watching this i'll get informed about the Portuguese Revolution 5o year celebration.

haha that's so cheeky and I love it!

My birthday is on such a cool anniversary? Awesome!

fr😊

Guyana is actually growing a lot in a positive way after they found oil, knowing now exactly what the others did wrong. And now Venezuela wants to gobble them up for that.

Malaysia

And that is only because of Scandinavia being basically a utopia. Nothing achievable for us mere mortals.

USA

Facts

he also forgot about the dutch mental thorny tree branch stuck in the asshole

Which caused the Dutch disease mentioned in the video. But tbh other than gas, clay and fertile soil we as a river delta in north-western Europe aren't the richest in natural resources.

It IS resource poor. Aside from Gas, what other resources does the Netherlands have that is valuable to the world economy?

Seriously? You have a gas field and that makes you resource rich? Hell nah.

Saotome is so small. Why Nigeria isn't helping them...

@@satyasankalpapanigrahi9416Nigeria has our own problems, we need to help ourselves before we can help others. I hope one day we’ll be wealthy enough to help elevate our poorer neighbours

​@@satyasankalpapanigrahi9416 Our government doesn't even care about its citizens. The Northern half of our country is still overrun by terrorists despite how much aid the US has sent to us.

@@satyasankalpapanigrahi9416 , Nigeria has its own issues to deal with. Nigeria is huge and it has to take care of all its areas.

(just like half of the world)

Nice

Ngl it's not even a long time, it usually takes him about 2-3 weeks to upload a video

I found him 6h after the Maldives video

He has been babe for a bit now for me. Always look forward to his videos as I listen to them as I work

Channels that take the longest are often the best ones. My suggestion: Subscribe to tons of channels that make good stuff, some taking ages, others going often. That way there's rarely a shortage!

Cause the sultan needs his 150th Ferrari and 1 millionth instagram thot

thats an interesting outlook

Not Slovenia Land!!! 😆 TBH recently I found out Not Slovenia Land, despite its comparatively low development base (to others in Central Europe), has been doing even better than Poland, which is often cited as post-Soviet success story. It’s been a sleeper success really.

Me: wathing interesting video about economics and its political, societal and geographical context. My brain the whole time: What animal would hoser choose to represent Czechia?

Canary Islands have that sweet free Spanish money, which Cape Verde doesn't.

Both Cabo Verde and Sao Tome should've remained Portuguese. They would've become the Canaries and Reunion of Portugal respectively.

They do invest in tourism. Sal island is pretty much all resorts and hotels

@@matiasguardaredes Yea capo verde is a really beatiful place.

@@conserva-chan2735 Cabo Verde did just fine by itself.

So Africa what really is our problem. Speaking as a Ghanaian. I was optimistic when I saw the Sonangol bit but now you’ve ruined it. Can we be fixed at all?

That’s true I’m angolan

@@dateymintah9585nope

11th biggest gas Field 🤓

what would be crazy about it?

Yes - autocracies have higher risk (to simply investigate)

I like his channel too, but he never delves into the idea that some of these countries have a lack of skilled labor due to having such a low IQ on average within their population. He leaves a lot of "risky" theories out. I mean if the average IQ is in the 70s, of course they won't have a space program any time soon lol.

verdad, no me había dado cuenta de eso jajsjajsj

But that is only posiible because of Scandinavia being basically a utopia. Nothing achievable for us mere mortals.

Indeed, finding resources after you already have stable institutions and a halfway decent economy is usually a good thing because new wealth can be reinvested into existing industries. While rich countries can occasionally get Dutch disease, this usually isn't as severe as it is in developing nations. A good example of how resource wealth works in rich nations would be Australia, which uses its resource wealth to find other parts of its economic engine.

Well, yeah

shocking

I know it's a part of macaronesia but how is it related to Europe besides historical reasons? Sure if the 4 archipelagos (azores, maderia, canaries, cabo verde) became one nation then yeah, they could probably be EU but currently, doesn't make sense

maybe not join the EU but they could have a lot of partnership programs and shit like that

@@tomi2205 sort of like a stepping stone for Africa / EU relations

Morrocco didn't get membership for not being in Europe

@@Game_Hero kinda makes sense

Not America, but USA🇺🇸

RU-vid wanted me to rate your comment. I gave it a 10/10 and I also agree

A dolphin or a manatee ?🤔 But we don't have manatees there