Why the West is rich

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[–]hfxB0oyA 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well researched. The printing press was so important for getting curated and valuable information out to build societies. Now the internet gets far more uncurated and bullshit information out to societies and we're reaping its collapse.

[–]TheMaharishi 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The west isn't rich. The international banking mafia is rich. They own about 8 billion slaves.

[–]jet199[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The fact that you don't know what it's like to be really poor says otherwise

[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Quote: "This divergence, however, began in 1300 AD."

Me, looking at graph: the divergence in 1300 is microscopically small, even in 1500 it was two parts of fuck all, and doesn't become really significant until the 1800s when slavery and economic exploitation took off like a rocket.

Speaking of slavery, remember that the Arabs have been taking slaves from African for over a thousand years, going back to the medieval period and beyond. Could those millions of people being stolen and worked to death have something to do with Africa's failure to develop? Nah, it must be the colour of their skin 🙄