[pierrem15]

In the 17th and 18th centuries, India was prosperous while Britain was an inconsequential, feudal-ridden kingdom.

This, of course, is Marxist mythology.

Just about anywhere in the pre-modern world was a Third World s---hole.

It was industrialization that pushed the West above the rest.

And the West was no more rapacious than anyone else.

[dfwgator]

“We Wuz Kangz!”