May 12, 2021 3:09 PM
chazzsandiego
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https://twitter.com/ricketyoldshack/status/1392492658665394181?s=19
ilovebigmutts
Yea, shits fucked
cosinewave
That describes the US pretty well too.
IvanBeefkoff
As well as Russia. Natural resources being such a massive income stream makes it unprofitable or slow to develop other industries 1/2
Which just perpetuates the dependency on the resource. IIRC Russia could have heavily invested into other fields in mid-2000s but didn’t 2/2
Sololop
Well yeah... It's a big country and the population is distributed pretty linearly. A pipeline shut down would obviously be a bad thing
OldenPickles
Weird how that works huh!?
Arcblaire
Unfortunetaly we here in Canada have also been misled by our oil&gas industry.
mas0chist
what? no!
jjsjosCreator
The oil and gas industry never lies. *Clair Patterson cackles from the great beyond*
ilovebigmutts
Yea, shits fucked
cosinewave
That describes the US pretty well too.
IvanBeefkoff
As well as Russia. Natural resources being such a massive income stream makes it unprofitable or slow to develop other industries 1/2
IvanBeefkoff
Which just perpetuates the dependency on the resource. IIRC Russia could have heavily invested into other fields in mid-2000s but didn’t 2/2
Sololop
Well yeah... It's a big country and the population is distributed pretty linearly. A pipeline shut down would obviously be a bad thing
OldenPickles
Weird how that works huh!?
Arcblaire
Unfortunetaly we here in Canada have also been misled by our oil&gas industry.
mas0chist
what? no!
jjsjosCreator
The oil and gas industry never lies. *Clair Patterson cackles from the great beyond*