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Re:Why Were Victorian Elites So Effective? by etcetcetcetceta on Friday October 09, 2026 @04:32AM (#50017686)
>Some of that is unavoidable tragedy, but quite a lot of it is direct mismanagement (especially fervent devotion to a "work sets you free" mindset and free market capitalism).

It was all going so well until you spewed propaganda, believe it not the provinces administered by the British were least affected by disease and famine primarily because of the infrastructure and institutions that'd been established in them. Additionally, we have a better insight into those regions because of the record keeping again introduced by the bureaucracy forced upon them...

Re:Why Were Victorian Elites So Effective? by akimbostrawman on Friday October 09, 2026 @04:53AM (#50017862)
You just have to look at past colonies today in india to still see the positive impact they had. To this very day all proper and impressive buildings are the ones build back then, sadly they are all slowly falling apart because of lack of care and maintenance by the locals.