Spain was the first country to build a world empire in europe, but why is it now a second-tier country in Europe?

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The way their empire worked wasn't conducive to further economic development. Why build manufacturies/found banks and all the other shit that leads to economic progress when you've got an endless supply of raw currency in the form of gold?
Not to mention catholicism being more difficult to integrate into capitalism than protestantism which was picked up by proto-capitalists pretty much immediately and integrated through that weirdo "if you got loadsamony that means god loves you" gospel.
Getting too comfy at a certain tier of historical process makes you less likely to evolve beyond it, simple as.

This. Napolololeon sunk their most prized ships and their economy never caught up.

The benelux lands were not part of the austrian branch. Charles V spoke shit german even by the end of his life and all his descendants were born in Spain.

shut up boris, Spain invested in infraestructure 1000 times more than any other power at the time.

Also Spain made the first global currency, the piece of 8, on wich modern dollar is based on, and Jesuits were the fathers of economical liberalism, read Juan de Mariana for example, so you can shove that muh anticapitalist catholicism right in you ass

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Not sure that final part applies to britain, they had several long periods of comfiness while eurangutans were slaughtering each other on the continent but they were constantly evolving and innovating anyway, whether in philosophy or technology or science or something else

inflation, resource disease and the inherit laziness of the spaniard

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They were well ahead of the curve on many issues and when the other nations caught up Brits looked like they were sitting comfy in comparison.
Like their civil war for example, it took us until 20th century to shank our monarch and properly throw feudalism away (to be fair it was mostly due to our monarchs fumbling the transition from feudalism to capitalism), brits did it in 17th century.
And although the remnants of their feudalism remained in their class system and such it was de-fanged well enough to secure the path to progress well before most other countries without losing much of the percieved legitimacy that the remaining stumps of feudalism provided (muh queen).
Also Brits did the subjugation of church to the state waaaay before even protestants figured it out.
Being on an island is nice when it comes to doing that kinda stuff without having someone breathing down your neck.

Spain ruled European battlefields for 200 years wkth the Tercios. The tercios has been the best infantery in the last 2000 years, probably even better than the Romans. Totalñy invicted for 150 years. We even kidnapped a french king in the battlefield and broughtim to Madrid as a little bitch.

And you are not speaking Spanish because heavy storms defeated us (not the english) during the Armada Invencible

He doesn't just mean violent competition and war. Those can spur innovation but also destroy it in uncertainty and chaos. Britain had an economic and political system that encouraged ruthless economic competition. Which caused industrialization and economic advancement. Spain tended towards rich propietarios doing nothing but sitting on their ownership of land and exported this system to all its southern American colonies, with terrible results.

It had nothing to show for itself other than the riches it gained from controlling those lands.
Britain and germany had industry and trade that helped bolster their own relevance even after losing control of their colonies.
Spain should have focused harder on production rather than resource extraction.

He spoke shit German because his native languages were French and Flemish. His Spanish can't have been much better.