> Any wealth created by colonial rule, and British technology / peace / medicine, would be turned into more people surviving into adulthood. As opposed to, wha

> Any wealth created by colonial rule, and British technology / peace / medicine, would be turned into more people surviving into adulthood. As opposed to, what? The destitution that comes with independence? It seems to suggest the colonized people were savages killing each other before the British stopped by so generously.