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You're making a spurious correlation. If your assertion was correct, the French, British, Danish, Portuguese, and Spanish, et al.--the great colonial powers--sh
by dereg 15y ago
You're making a spurious correlation. If your assertion was correct, the French, British, Danish, Portuguese, and Spanish, et al.--the great colonial powers--should be stronger economies than the United States.
http://qed.princeton.edu/getfile.php?f=European_Colonialism_1500_AD_to_2000.jpg http://qed.princeton.edu/getfile.php?f=European_Colonialism_...
In conclusion, you've made a spurious correlation.
- redthrowaway 15y agoThey were stronger. Much stronger. They collapsed for varied reasons, but suffice to say if the British Empire was as big today as it was in its heyday, it would be a larger economy than the US. Also, no need to say "in conclusion" when the sum total of your argument is a single sentence.
- petercooper 15y agoYeah. Despite Britain's significant fall from grace over the past 100 years, its wealth per capita is still not significantly below that of the US, even now. The US has nothing on how onerous and profiteering the British empire was.