The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets — When Aid Hides Extraction

Crisis in Perception · Jul 28, 2026 · 56m

What if poverty is not simply a condition that wealthy countries are trying to solve, but an outcome continually reproduced by the rules of the global economy?

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

Using The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets by Jason Hickel as an entry point, this investigation examines how colonial conquest helped create the economic divide between the global North and South—and how that divide persists through modern financial and institutional arrangements.

Hickel argues that the conventional development…