The smart country and the stupid country
The smart country invents ships and weapons. They sail to the stupid country and take over by force. The smart country gets richer and smarter from stealing basic commodities from the dumb country. They innovate and invent smart things that make them even smarter, then some of the smart people figure out they can teach the dumb people to make these new things so they can sell more than the other smart people in their country because they are cheaper to make, genius.
By watching the smart people, the dumb learn an important lesson, that they need to be smarter, so they do something they never did before they invest in their people, particularly their education, which is good for the smart country, they need cheap smart people. Then the unexpected happens. The smarter dumb people, steal the ideas of the smart country and using what they learn start making smart things and also a LOT of money selling them to the smart country. The dumb people who are now getting smarter decide they should have some of that extra money, wages go up and a middle class grows. Soon the rich smart people in the dumb country can't sell as much to the smart country anymore because it's not cheap to make things, wages have gone up, but that's okay, they now have smart people in their own country to sell to.
Time goes by until finally the rich smart people in the now not so dumb country realise they won't stay rich unless they innovate, they invent new things and sell them. The people in the smart country look at them and smile. "Welcome to the club, what took you so long"
Couple of things to ponder. Firstly without colonisation the dumb would have stayed dumb for a hell of a lot longer so don't bitch about it or expect compensation, just be happy your kids have a chance to create their own life now and because life expectancies have doubled there's a good chance you will be alive to see it. Secondly, what happened when the original dumb country got smart? They built ships and .......
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