Is your country developed/have potential to be developed in next 50 years?

[rambro]

There was a time when Malaysia was truly High flying.....There was the Petronas Towers, the Sepang Race Track, Petronas puring 30-50 million dollars a year in F1 sponsorship, Petronas even pouring money for a three cylinder MotoGP project which later became the Foggy FP1 superbike, Proton sponsoring Kenny Robert's V5 MotoGP development, Proton buying Lotus sports cars, Proton buying MV Agusta superbike company, Proton having a world class rally team

It seemed Malaysia could do no wrong
Then sadly it all fizzled out


This year Malaysia hosted its last ever F1 race at the Sepang track, bringing curtains to an amazing 20 year growth story of a country

Incidentally Sepang was the first of the new mega budget architecturally stunning modern F1 tracks in traditionally non-motorsport countries.....

It seems growth of China took away the Malaysian growth story

1998-2017 was a terrific time for Malaysia

I blame my ruling politicians they are too trivial providing lip service to gain popularity and votes creating internal discord with no sense of direction and aim. Corruption, cronyism, kleptocracy being the latest bane.

Proton as the national car manufacturer for the past 20+ years still requires government bailouts by the billions each time. Failed to breach international market whereas Kia and Hyundai took off wonderfully.

In general, it is the mentality of the people. The good times are around late 90s to early 20s, things are at a snail'space now.
Race tracks are not a necessity, there are better areas to blow money on.
We are in no position to sponsor anyone, not that rich. Proton acquiring MV Agusta + Lotus is a white elephant project with minimal ROI.

China didn't take away anything, they just have efficient leadership + direction. Well at their pace and magnitude for sure the world would take notice.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

by 2050, I feel around 15-20 cities in India at Sao Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia level

Ugh! Please pick any country other than Brazil to compare yourself to...as @waz can attest to this shouldn't be an aspiration. Even a 1995 Venezuela would be better.

 

[NoOne'sBoy]

i can live for a million years and sri lanka would still be a shithole. sure it will have high flying building and paved roads. that's about as far it would go. at least on the plus side colombo was ranked as the 5th most improved city in global livability report 2017.

 

[Tshering22]

Most of Southern and Southeast Asia will be highly developed in the coming 50 years. As for the construction style, it really depends on what type of a climate you guys live in.

 

[Menthol]

I think the first indicators a nation can be a developed country is seeing their culture toward materialism.

Then seeing their ambitions, hardworking, descipline and ability to be organized.


A religious country, who religion is strong, usually will be a poor country or at best to be trapped in middle income. As their main culture will be toward God, not extremely pursuing worldly materialism like there's no other salvation except money, science and technological wonders.

 

[rambro]

I think the first indicators a nation can be a developed country is seeing their culture toward materialism.

Then seeing their ambitions, hardworking, descipline and ability to be organized.


A religious country, who religion is strong, usually will be a poor country or at best to be trapped in middle income. As their main culture will be toward God, not extremely pursuing worldly materialism like there's no other salvation except money, science and technological wonders.

It is about striving towards betterment, materialism takes the back seat as it is a form of byproduct.

No comment on religions

 

[HannibalBarca]

So being developped mean having good urban infrastructure?
Well good luck with that... since the Rex of all is USA and their urban infrastructure are worse than some underdev countries...

even the good student of scandinavian countries begun to jump in that area at the beginning of this century...

Even in japan, that area is ages behind what we think of it when you are outside of the big cities...

 

[Juggernaut_Flat_Plane_V8]

So being developped mean having good urban infrastructure?
Well good luck with that... since the Rex of all is USA and their urban infrastructure are worse than some underdev countries...

even the good student of scandinavian countries begun to jump in that area at the beginning of this century...

They built their infrastructure in the 50s and thought it would last a 100 years....but concerete cancer and decay means they have to seriously redevelop their infrastructure within 5-10 years

 

[HannibalBarca]

The only potential barometer of "future" dev is education / order / and freedom... get those big 3 and u can smile later on... take one out... enjoy the third world tag...

 

[NoOne'sBoy]

I think the first indicators a nation can be a developed country is seeing their culture toward materialism.

Then seeing their ambitions, hardworking, descipline and ability to be organized.


A religious country, who religion is strong, usually will be a poor country or at best to be trapped in middle income. As their main culture will be toward God, not extremely pursuing worldly materialism like there's no other salvation except money, science and technological wonders.

People in western countries are less materiliastic than people in the east. so i found it

 

[Menthol]

People in western countries are less materiliastic than people in the east. so i found it

Then in the future, the definition of developed country probably will be shifted from the West to the East.

 

[NoOne'sBoy]

Then in the future, the definition of developed country probably will be shifted from the West to the East.

If that so i would rather live in the west

 

[Juggernaut_Flat_Plane_V8]

People in western countries are less materiliastic than people in the east. so i found it

Nope people in the West are very materialistic..not in the sense that they want to acquire more things

But more in the sense that material explanations of nature, scientific explanations of nature are more than enough to satisfy their curiosity

They donot need God OR sprituality to explain existence and reality and they are quite happy with the fact that their mind would be annihilated with the destruction of their physical body at death

 

[Menthol]

If that so i would rather live in the west

Lol

Materialistic doesn't mean to be bad thou. It's not always about wealth, but also a way of thinking toward science and technology advancement too.

Some people learned religion teaching, and think that goodness and order can only be achieved being religious.

But to be true...

A poor but a religious country will produce criminal and angry people.

A wealthy but less religious country will produce kind, humble and wise people.

I think it's related to safety, satisfaction and treated fairly. Human being is a materialistic creature, but they have limit, they don't need a huge wealth, but enough amount of wealth, safety and good living standards, it will turn them into a humble, kind and wise creature.

It's proven.

 

[NoOne'sBoy]

Lol

Materialistic doesn't mean to be bad thou. It's not always about wealth, but also a way of thinking toward science and technology advancement too.

Some people learned religion teaching, and think that goodness and order can only be achieved being religious.

But to be true...

A poor but a religious country will produce criminal and angry people.

A wealthy but less religious country will produce kind, humble and wise people.

I think it's related to safety, satisfaction and treated fairly. Human being is a materialistic creature, but they have limit, they don't need a huge wealth, but enough amount of wealth, safety and good living standards, it will turn them into a humble, kind and wise creature.

It's proven.

i dont care about religion. i mean asian people worship money and other things and in the developed west people tend to give less of a **** about that. asian people spend all of their life gaining wealth but in the end die without living for a day. even the wealthiest asians are selfish and obsessed with themselves bragging about what they have. people dont do that in the west. they enjoy their lives. that's the difference. it's a culturual problem imo.