Comments by "" (@ericsaxon5736) on "Why is Africa Still So Poor?" video.

  1. 4:38 No one ever worked their slaves to death in the fields. Slave owners were not nice people but they were greedy and they were businessmen first. Slaves were expensive, to acquire, to transport, to feed, and to educate (not reading and writing education, but rather tool usage, language usage, and how to plant crops etc.) Either way, no one invested that much money, just to work someone to death. That would be STUPID, and I promise you, rich people might be many things, cold, calculating, even mean, but they are rarely... stupid. This statement is the equivalent of claiming that a horse racer would run their horses to death. Again, too much money invested, especially if you want the horse to run many races and then sire healthy offspring so that more future thoroughbreds could be produced. You certainly wouldn't run the horse to death or work a slave to death. 11:30 And what evidence is there that most of the farm land, the Europeans used was stolen/taken from the natives? How much of the land that was colonized, was simply cleared by the Europeans because they had steel tools and the knowledge to do so? Or did the arable farmland just quadruple itself without any help? Most of Africa was a jungle, so was most of North America. Iron/steel axes, allowed Europeans to create farmland. Most of the wealth was just created by the Europeans, without it actually being stolen from anyone. European irrigation, made land fertile, jungles cleared by European tools increase land for agriculture, European land management brought crops that could feed more people. None of this is theft. Without European involvement, Sub Saharan Africa could not support more than 10%-20% of its current population. I'm going to stop watching at this point, since your video is all about blaming the Europeans for Africa's failings.
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