'.. colonizers had immense difficulty getting people to work on their mines and plantations. .. people tended to prefer their subsistence lifestyles, and wages were not high enough to induce them to leave. Colonizers had to coerce people into the #LaborMarket: imposing taxes, enclosing #commons and constraining access to food, or just outright forcing people off their land. '
https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-poverty
#JasonHickel #Debunks #StevenPinker who is fun read about #cursing and #langauge