First world prosperity

[Charles Brown]

Yes, the same Europeans have brought us
nuclear weapons to replace the acorns. 
Of course,it wasn't done as a "trade". The
indigenous people were annihilated and
herded into concentration camps. Their
impoverishment has kept access to
Eurpean-derived technology to the 
minimum. Rather than trade or exchange
there was plunder and takeover. 
There was no meeting of the minds
as required in a contract or trade.

Charles Brown

  Detroit


>>> Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> 08/26 4:17 PM >>>
>
>Yes.  Why does no one consider the theft of North America from we of the
>First Nations "imperialism" (whatever Canada and the United States are
>doing to indigenous peoples elsewhere)?
>

Perhaps because access to European-derived technology makes it more-or-less
a fair trade?

You may not care that your wife doesn't spend her life painfully processing
acorns to make acorn mush, but I'm glad mine doesn't have to...

Brad "cranky today" DeLong