> The US alone has installed leaders and toppled parties repeatedly to maintain our status quo, and historically empires just do this. It's almost as if... pro

> The US alone has installed leaders and toppled parties repeatedly to maintain our status quo, and historically empires just do this. It's almost as if... protectionism is bad. Colonialism and imperialism are inherently protectionist. No matter how talented they were, a Madagascan was prohibited from pursuing the same desirable administrative jobs that were available to the French elite. The French elite prohibited their competitors from offering from offering the Madagascans a better deal.