Talk to a christian about how colonialism and capitalism took people who were indigenous and living dignified if precarious lives and then genocided them, took their land, and turned the survivors into wage slaves when they previously were able to sustain themselves.... and they will say without hesitation that it was worth it because now they know about Jesus.
A lot of indigenous economies were doing just fine and provided everyone involved with ample calories and nutrition. In a very serious way the only advantages the Europeans had in much of the world prior to the industrial revolution was ironmongery and a willingness to send as many poor people as it took to subjugate, enslave, and destroy other nations.
Talk to a christian about how colonialism and capitalism took people who were indigenous and living dignified if precarious lives and then genocided them, took their land, and turned the survivors into wage slaves when they previously were able to sustain themselves.... and they will say without hesitation that it was worth it because now they know about Jesus.
A lot of indigenous economies were doing just fine and provided everyone involved with ample calories and nutrition. In a very serious way the only advantages the Europeans had in much of the world prior to the industrial revolution was ironmongery and a willingness to send as many poor people as it took to subjugate, enslave, and destroy other nations.