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Oh yeah, and what happened before the Industrial revolution that might have DIRECTLY made it possible in one place by preventing it from being possible in the other? Does he actually think that colonialism started 1 microsecond before the industrial revolution? Where does he think that wealth that existed in Europe before the industrial revolution came from?

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to have a liberal's understanding of history. Events just float around in a space-like vacuum, most of the resulting opinions forming like gravitational effects from the dark matter between them (racism).