Pooling and Sharing of wealth make everyone's wealth grow faster

Re:Pooling and Sharing of wealth make everyone's wealth grow... by sleepyhead on Saturday September 02, 2023 @05:13AM (#37359786)

Sorry to break your bubble but most European countries did not colonise other countries. The most successful ones, Scandinavian countries, did not colonise other countries (well they did internally but not the same way as England and France for example). If you look to Norway we had a social democratic system before we gained the majority of wealth (aka oil).

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Re:Pooling and Sharing of wealth make everyone's wealth grow... by bsza on Saturday September 02, 2023 @05:16AM (#37359800)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_overseas_colonies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_possessions_of_Norway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_overseas_colonies

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Re:Pooling and Sharing of wealth make everyone's wealth grow... by consilient on Saturday September 02, 2023 @08:26AM (#37360899)

Scandinavian countries did not establish successful profitable colonies (except perhaps Iceland, if you want to count that). It's ambiguous enough whether the average Briton really benefited from their colonial adventures: the Scandinavian peasantry clearly did not. Finland in particular was an impoverished backwater until the early 20th century.

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