How did Europe become the richest part of the world? | Aeon Essays
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In a time of great powers and empires, just one region of the world experienced extraordinary economic growth. How?

Really tired of "Historians" talking about the growth of wealth in europe and fail to even mention the extreme exploitation of working people at home and mass genocides and robbery abroad.

  • half_giraffe [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    In brief, Europe’s political fragmentation spurred productive competition.

    I used to think that Europe got its wealth by exploiting the global south and genociding its detractors, but now this guy made it clear that it really was competition amongst states that allowed them to thrive. From his conclusion, I fully support the balkanization of America into thousands of states to encourage more innovation or whatever.