Past performance will not necessarily reflect (and should not dictate) future returns :)
Also, the Arab world is arguably worse off... Invented much of math, and is now dominated by ascientific theocracies
Also, the Arab world is arguably worse off... Invented much of math, and is now dominated by ascientific theocracies
This is historically not true. Sure we get terms like "algebra", "algorithm", etc from the arab world, but the arab world didn't invent these mathematics ideas/fields. These ideas/fields go back to the mesopotamia and ancient greece. Also, the mathematical concepts developed throughout china, india, etc also.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_algebra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm
Certainly the arab world made contributions to math but they certainly didn't invent most of math.
> and is now dominated by ascientific theocracies
Even during the islamic golden age, it was dominated by "ascientific" theocracies. One doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the other.
Not but you know--Bell, Microsoft, IBM and others are doing pretty well.
> Also, the Arab world is arguably worse off... Invented much of math, and is now dominated by ascientific theocracies
Hardly comparable. You're talking about stuff that happened thousands (5000? no idea) ago, Olivetti had a PC a handful of years before it took off and made many billionaires.