DGP Chapter 4: Sweet Nexus: Sugar And The Origins Of The Modern World

If you ever watch a mob movie like: Goodfellas or Scarface you notice that the men in those movies made a living by exporting goods.  It was their source of wealth and power.  At the same time it lead to war.  Empires in Western Europe had many resources that they exported to other countries.  One important resource at the time was sugar, which was seen as luxury.  It was their source of power.  The discovery of sugar at the time was sort of like importing and selling high class drugs, except it was legal and it did not kill you.  At the same time the discovery of sugar lead to a war for the product between nations like the French and British since it was seen that only people of royalty could have sugar.  Plus people  became slaves who were ordered to grow commodities.  Like the native people of the Americas for instance.  Who worked for no wage and long hours and treated as only objects that can be replaceable.  The discovery of sugar and the results it can bring to a person or an empire like wealth, is what inspires modern American.  To be on top of the world selling goods, only now its about a different type of sugar.