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Re:Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a sto... by ralfd on Sunday May 28, 2023 @10:59AM (#36104572)
My guess would be ramping up population growth. Any wealth created by colonial rule, and British technology / peace / medicine, would be turned into more people surviving into adulthood.
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Re:Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a sto... by polygamous_bat on Sunday May 28, 2023 @04:44PM (#36107609)
> 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.

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