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That’s a lot of sidestepping of my entire comment. So why was Sweden selling this advanced cannon technology and sailing slave ships for Britain et all, in exc
by yunohn 5y ago
That’s a lot of sidestepping of my entire comment.
So why was Sweden selling this advanced cannon technology and sailing slave ships for Britain et all, in exchange for metal money - which like you say wouldn’t help the average Swede? Surely, they could’ve just kept to themselves and built things for themselves. Why did the neutral Swedes even attempt their own colonies? Seems like a waste of resources.
(https://unevenearth.org/2020/01/swedish-colonialist-neutrality/ https://unevenearth.org/2020/01/swedish-colonialist-neutrali...)
- Jensson 5y agoThe elites likes precious metals and will spend a lot of manpower to attain it, but precious metals doesn't make society rich. When we say that Europe was rich we don't mean they had lots of gold in their coffers, but that they had plenty of good food, housing, clothes, medicine etc, things that makes society rich.
- yunohn 5y agoWhy do you assume colonies didn’t have food, housing, clothes, or medicine? Have you read about any of their history? This is an extreme form of the typical “taming the savages” racist trope. Anyway, you’ve been ignoring most of my arguments and furthering your own Byzantine narrative. I was attempting to educate in good faith, but I shall cease to engage now.