In other words, people don't have any hopes left. Low class people just don't care to progress (less than 40% finish highschool, unemployment in 20-somethings is huge). Middle class people don't have a future: you can't own a house unless you inherit one. High class people are usually those who in their late 20s migrated to the first world and got money from outside. One-percenters multiply they richness, bank stock has gained value like never before, etc.

The problem is that, for the last 90 years our people have consistently voted for interventionist governments. You can see the economic trends. In times of freedom, people from all over the world flocked to our country because we had plenty of work, extremely high salaries (compares to other countries) etc. But then people started to vote for Robin Hood State. Stealing from all, giving something to the poor, and keeping a nice cut. We had Fascist-Robin-Hood ("peronism", and military dictatorships) and we had Nice-Republic-Robin-Hood ("radicalism").

When the majority rules, the country gets the government that the majority deserves.

>You don't understand how real people behave. It's a very rare oddball who keeps money under the mattress or buries it in the backyard.

I live in Argentina. We have 40% annual inflation and the vast majority of the upper and middle class buys US dollars in the black market and holds them under the mattress.

Also, there are two ways to study human behavior: one is through science and experimentation. The other is through the opinion of philosophers, magicians, prophets and alchemists. This second approach was used by almost all economists, even those against the State like the Austrian School. Actual scientific experimentation is a very new innovation in Economics and it's still developing a theory. (Search: "behavioral economics")

I bet there's not enough space in that margin to put the whole idea...

But seriously, most advances in mathematics (and other fields) happend and people couldn't immediately find any use. Like boolean algebra or lasers.

In Argentina a técnico is a person who went to a specialized highschool and was mostly taught technical with lots of hands-on practice. They study one extra year (total 13 years of schooling instead of 12) and can work in industry right away.

16-year-olds learining calculus, not easy.

Fake premise. I say "unicorn." I can't point to it. Except when under LSD. But hey, the word has a meaning.
I say "Freedom". Can't point to it. Etc

US law applies only in the US. If these people live in West Banana Island then nobody can arrest them.

I know that the Argentine Hemorragic Fever's first treatments before the development of the vaccine was transfusion of survivors' plasma.

Lingua latina fuit, longe tempore, lingua scientiae. Isaacus Newtonus, Iohannes Keplerus, Galilaeus Galilaei, Franciscus Bacon, Leonhardus Eulerus, inter alios, opera omnia latina scripserunt. Ideo, non estote amantes ignorantiae, nec superbi in ignorantia vestra.

I really like G.K. Chesterton, but how can he be ranked higher than Arthur Conan Doyle and Sigmund Freud?

Let me guess, if you don't send your SSN and fingerprints you'll get locked out of your own game?

Saint Theophilus, bishop of Anthioch between the years 169 and 183, wrote that the book of Genesis includes several images and symbols that were difficult to understand by people outside christianity, and he strongly disadvised the text to be read in public or to new joiners so that they would not be confused.

The summary is wrong as usual. Francis did not say that these two theories are Truth. Nobody claims that a falsifable theory is The Truth, nor that it is "right". The Pope only said that they are not in contradiction with the common christian faith. Nothing less... and nothing more.

Argentina populated a very small town for the families of the scientists, with a school, a radio station and little else. It is called Esperanza (hope).

In Argentina owning fossils gets you a shitload of paperwork and regulations that you must fill and abide to, with regular inspections from government and constant threat of expropriation. On educational and culture-preserving grounds of course.