You're taking an interesting side of the dispute, but choosing British colonies & the EIC as your examples? Nutty
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There is no cross-comparison that better illustrates the gnome's point than for-profit vs settler Anglo colonies!
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have to disagree with all here. EIC was good at imperialism NOT settler colonialism. Big diff.
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Replying to @gipperware @QuasLacrimas and
Brits tried holding back American expansion specifically BC war with natives was unprofitable.
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What do you think EIC was so good at? &you know there were lots of other for-profit British projects?
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Running a private govt, trading. But there was never any attempt to settle Brits.
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Basically all of the UK's problems in the 18th c. &19th c. were due to EIC's massive unprofitability
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