Ask HN: Are people less entrepreneurial in colder climates?

2 points·amichail··6 comments

Maybe the fear of freezing to death makes people more conservative when it comes to choosing a career?

If you’re interested in that kind of stuff, I highly recommend the book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" as starting point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel

I’ve wondered the opposite, having spent 6 months in a hot South American country, the heat in tropical countries can feel oppressive and take all your energy away.

Heat has a direct correlation on mental health and cognitive capacity.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/07/31/1190627...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ina.12916

https://indoor.lbl.gov/publications/effect-temperature-task-...

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/jisungpark/files/paper_nyc...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9562223/

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...

Um, the richest city on the planet gets pretty frosty. I can't be bothered but if you wanted to hit the university library for an afternoon, you could probably pretty quickly come up with the data. Or know someone in finance that has corporate access to like bloomberg data.

If the heat was good for the economy then you'd have African countries pushing around Europe and not the other way around.

yeah too much food and life hangs around the equator...in dat cold...you best be hustling to snag a bit of the less food there is to go around...

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