I kinda wanna read some books on this topic. I have read some books that back this presentation up but nothing specific to it. I believe Rothbard wrote something on it and there's a good talk by Tom Woods on this subject as well.

For those who don't buy this I will add something. We often get a cartoon version of history in school, and even in university history courses. Its laughable how bad our info can be. Of course there are always greedy people that do terrible things but over and over again the more deeply I read on a topic the more I find that there is often much more to the subject that gets ignored. Usually due to an agenda.

Lies of omission are all over the traditional history we are all taught. When I started broadening my reading on history I began to understand why our world is so screwed up. History is not very kind to statism, central planning, and the current world order.