The laziness of countries touched by the sea – quick note
Just think about it.
Take modern countries with real resources and economic potentials. Exclude countries with alcohol problems. You obtain the powerful countries.
My theory is simple: being close to the sea (I mean the warm and scenic one, not the Northern one) makes people lazy. They prefer to stay and lie at the sea rather than work. This is logic. Spain, Greece, Italy. All «developed» countries but still slow to grow. Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom, Netherlands… all developed countries, always «synchronized» with the growth.
Romania, Moldavia… countries not really touched by the sea, with resources but without stability (political, moral).