Comment by BurningFrog
2 hours ago
That the West got wealthy from the Industrial Revolution is a commonly accepted fact AFAIK.
We didn't steal that wealth from Africa, in part because Africa had very little wealth.
I don't have a great link laying out this in more detail, but I know Johan Norberg has written and talked a fair amount about this.
Aren't natural resources wealth? Isn't forced work wealth? "Stealing" seems like the best word to describe the situation without obfuscating the matter with grander narratives (the kind that might win you the "Nobel prize" for economy, incidentally).