You're right in that those things happened, and I even agree with the sentiment of labeling the treatment of the natives as genocide. But saying that these thin

You're right in that those things happened, and I even agree with the sentiment of labeling the treatment of the natives as genocide. But saying that these things are responsible for America's economic dominance shows a fundemental lack of understanding of history. In fact it could be easily argued that slavery was a significant setback after we progressed beyond the very early days of the colonies, when there was simply not enough labor of any kind.