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Stalinbaum t1_j841plk wrote

Native right wing population said migrants stole their jobs so they kicked them out and had massive labor shortage sounds eerily similar to the bullshit being spewed by rightie tightes in America.

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Apellosine t1_j83t6cb wrote

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Sauerkraut_n_Pepsi t1_j83r6il wrote

Another way of looking at it is that they were strip mined to death by corporations based in AUS and NZ using outsourced labor, who left them in the dust once the resources were extinguished.

Doesn’t really have anything to do with right wing ideology this is just what big nations do to smaller nations on every continent every day all the time

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Timbo_007 t1_j83namh wrote

Also Nauruans became rich as fuck during the mining boom, lived way beyond their expenses, had so much money they blew it on completely insane investments like financing crap musicals and a government palace for a population smaller than the average village, have now the highest diabetes rate in the world

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Mightypsychobat t1_j83ls5l wrote

There is a explanation, maybe? The Urban density was rural farmers moving to cities after the agricultural owning elite kicked them off their land and was using slave labor to grow crops.

One of Romes greatest conundrums was figuring out who to fuck over with rural/agricultural reforms. Do they screw over the rich and give it back to the poor? Or do they let the rich land owner continue to work these fields. That is a VERY small summary of the situation regarding this but I think that may be a root cause, at least in the Italian peninsula.

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Chemistryset8 t1_j83jc4t wrote

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itiLuc t1_j83hplk wrote

Sure! The first line in the "economic performance" section states:

"In the years after independence in 1968, Nauru possessed the highest GDP per capita in the world due to its rich phosphate deposits."

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smallbutlazy t1_j83gih6 wrote

Nauru became self-governing in January 1966, and following a two-year constitutional convention, it became independent on 31 January 1968 under founding president Hammer DeRoburt.[64] In 1967, the people of Nauru purchased the assets of the British Phosphate Commissioners, and in June 1970 control passed to the locally-owned Nauru Phosphate Corporation (NPC).[37] Income from the mines made Nauruans among the richest people in the world.[65][66] In 1989, Nauru took legal action against Australia in the International Court of Justice over Australia's administration of the island, in particular, Australia's failure to remedy the environmental damage caused by phosphate mining. Certain Phosphate Lands: Nauru v. Australia led to an out-of-court settlement to rehabilitate the mined-out areas of Nauru.[53][67]

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Xydraus t1_j83dk2q wrote

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cardboardunderwear t1_j838oyc wrote

Just by reading the article it sounds like this:

The UK, Australia, and New Zealand had joint control over Nauru. They mined the fuck out of it using chinese labor. In 1964, Australia felt guilty and said we'll move all you guys to another island. Nauru said screw that noise and became independent in 1968.

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