dumbassrights:

“indigenous people gave gold for mirrors!! how dumb they were!! spaniard were so smart” is such a strange thing say, such a basic perspective by europeans.

like, imagine if aliens came to the earth and their “economic system” is based on……lettuce. they say that they will give you a Thing that you dont have and u are like yes, i want the cool thing !! and for some unknown reason you see the aliens being fascinated by lettuce ; and u are like. sure, my dude ? have some lettuce ? lets exchange things, u weird alien?

and then the aliens spend years saying how dumb u were for giving them lettuce for one of their basic artifacts (that u never seen) and you are like. bro it was just lettuce ? i have more ? lol

and then they torture, slave and kill all your people for lettuce.