Worldwide elections

[Filuwaúrdjan]

What areas of Thailand tend to be poor

Most of the country. The slums of Parasite City are about the worst though IIRC.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Actually Bangkok and a fairly large central region (Central and East on the map) is not very poor - its per capita GDP is not far from the Taiwan/Singapore level.

Oh please, GDP per capita is no way to measure poverty. Bangkok has a certain amount of very, very rich people and sucks in most of the wealth from the rest of the country without giving much back in return. And at the same time it has some big, big slums and major problems with all kinds of things that are generally regarded as indicators of deprivation.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Of course, that is the function of all capitalist economic centres, Al.

Not at all. It's the function of parasite capital cities though; and they've been around long before anything that could be described as capitalism existed.

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Not that that means much. A lot of that GDP isn't really "real".

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That's a little bit like saying that a large skip isn't as much of an eyesore as a small landfill site...

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[Filuwaúrdjan]

It would be odd if Muslims actually voted for the more liberal party.

*blinks*

Do you actually know *anything* about the voting habits of Muslims or?...