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With no industry other than "digging things up", extremely expensive and slow internet, and large family homes all over the middle of the city, it is pretty indisputable. All you have mentioned is that, yes, our banks and government can adopt technologies quicker than other countries that are much larger.

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Those people you deride as 'digging things up' also really push the envelope when it comes to tech. Both the mining and agricultural sectors are lapping it up. I used to work for an agricultural telemetry startup and there's a ton of interest in the sector - depictions of farmers as backwood yokels who are fearful of technological change are bad stereotypes.

Yes, the internet here is expensive and slow. You can thank the current government for it's intentional blocking of better infrastructure there. But just because the internet is comparatively slow here doesn't mean that the country is a backwater overall. The internet in the US is amazingly fast... if you're in the right spot. It's fucking awful if you're in a bad spot. Yet we don't paint the US as a technological backwater.