Anonymous
8/31/2025, 2:12:08 PM
No.17964060
>>17963812
Norway and Denmark benefitted directly from slave trade and still to this day reap the profits in the form of their world-class maritime industries that one day made obscene profits in slave trade. Although colonial economies were typically more protectionist and the resources would be directed towards the domestic economies, you can't say other European countries didn't benefit from France or Britain's colonial empires either. Even if the biggest profits would stay in French and British hands, the growth of these industrial economies also meant prosperity for other Western nations in the form of exports. Britain and France flooded foreign markets with newer and cheaper consumer goods, capital goods and also developed infrastructure. Even in LATAM and Africa. But certainly at a higher rate in Europe. Germany owe their industrialisation not only to their excellent education and research institutions or government policy, but also to the British machinery they imported and then imitated. Even though you only mentioned Africa, Denmark made good profits off the West Indies while the Dutch were very present both in the West and the East. And they also traded slaves.
The whole developed world also benefited from cheap commodities exported from Latin America, all of which were based in extractive production systems that held the region back for centuries. Extractive institutions implemented by the colonisers and then supported by foreign capital.
It's disingenuous to say Europe became rich because of colonial exploitation. But European countries certainly benefitted from it.
>slav shitholes
EU welfare toddlers. It isn't hard to rebuild when your bills are covered by Germany and France. Some of the less corrupt African countries could also improve under such conditions.
Norway and Denmark benefitted directly from slave trade and still to this day reap the profits in the form of their world-class maritime industries that one day made obscene profits in slave trade. Although colonial economies were typically more protectionist and the resources would be directed towards the domestic economies, you can't say other European countries didn't benefit from France or Britain's colonial empires either. Even if the biggest profits would stay in French and British hands, the growth of these industrial economies also meant prosperity for other Western nations in the form of exports. Britain and France flooded foreign markets with newer and cheaper consumer goods, capital goods and also developed infrastructure. Even in LATAM and Africa. But certainly at a higher rate in Europe. Germany owe their industrialisation not only to their excellent education and research institutions or government policy, but also to the British machinery they imported and then imitated. Even though you only mentioned Africa, Denmark made good profits off the West Indies while the Dutch were very present both in the West and the East. And they also traded slaves.
The whole developed world also benefited from cheap commodities exported from Latin America, all of which were based in extractive production systems that held the region back for centuries. Extractive institutions implemented by the colonisers and then supported by foreign capital.
It's disingenuous to say Europe became rich because of colonial exploitation. But European countries certainly benefitted from it.
>slav shitholes
EU welfare toddlers. It isn't hard to rebuild when your bills are covered by Germany and France. Some of the less corrupt African countries could also improve under such conditions.