TL;DR?
- The Common Law
- Massive Immigration
- The Great Scientific Exodus during WWII
what’s amazing to me about this is that nowhere in either this article or any of the attendant comments (the first page, anyway — i’m not that bored) does anyone bring up the larger question: why is the first world so rich?
1. because the third world is so poor
the entire western world is built upon a foundation of wealth that was directly stolen — in the form of both natural resources and slave labor — from the african, asian, and south american lands it saw fit to, ahem, “colonize.”
it never ceases to astonish me that so few citizens of the first world seem to appreciate, or even be at all aware of, the fact that the baseline comforts and legacies of prosperity we enjoy derive principally from these crimes, past and ongoing alike.
1 year ago