Said Nelson Mandela: “Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.” Actually, old chum, the opposite is true, writes Tim Worstall. Poverty is the natural state of mankind, has been for millennia. “What is unnatural and what is man made is wealth.” And as for slavery and apartheid, it was only a little over 200 years ago that a few crazy British thought up the idea of abolishing slavery. Before that it was universal and natural. In The Year 1000 author Danny Danziger tells how you could submit yourself to slavery in Britain a thousand years ago, and get yourself three squares a day. In those days, if you wanted to do a little slave-trading you’d head for Dublin, Ireland, the chief slave market of western Europe.
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