We’re rich. Even the very poor in Britain are astoundingly rich by historical standards, some three thousand percent better off in food and housing and clothing and healthcare than the British poor two centuries ago. Economic historians can tell you.
The Wealth of Ideas
Why ideas and not capital changed the world.
Issue 49, 20th December 2016
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gjmata 20 January 2017
Perhaps exploitation cannot explain what you call the Great Enrichment, but exploitation was and still is a major issue.
As a native of Latin America I could tell a story or two in this regard, but what would be the point of reciting history to a historian?
I believe in equality, liberty, and justice. They are hard to find, however, while standing at the wrong side of a gun barrel.
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