Richard Werner

that clearly benefit Britain, not the colonial subjects to the same extent.

Many suffered and many died.

That includes actually, of course, one of the first colonies of Britain was Ireland.

And there's the great Irish famine, the potato famine.

Well, did you know that during the potato famine, Ireland produced potatoes and exported potatoes?

Exported potatoes to England while Irish people were starving.

So it wasn't a lack of potatoes.

It was policies that resulted in this famine.

But anyway, there are too many Irish people.

We have documents of British leaders saying that.

It's all these Irish people.

We don't need so many Irish people.

So this is the background, okay?

So Britain in charge of the world.

Now, we had this development earlier on.

of a new economic power and political power in Europe, Prussia.

Prussia was the first modern high-growth economy, and it was quite breathtaking.

It was high growth and prosperity for the majority of the people.

It was capitalism.

But it was capitalism of a kind where the idea was we wanted to be sustainable capitalism in the sense that we don't want to have mass poverty at the same time.