Well, kind of. From their point of view, it sounds a bit like: "I got there first and I industrialized and got rich, oh, by the way, I made you give up resources I needed for that, for free or at reduced prices, through gunboat diplomacy or outright conquest. You don't get to do the same because you were slow (even better, actively stopped from doing so in many cases)".

"I shot a bunch of holes in the bottom of the boat. I'm not going to let you do the same."

> "I shot a bunch of holes in the bottom of the boat. I'm not going to let you do the same."

"I shot a bunch of holes in the bottom of the boat and before the boat sinks I will get to live a grand life. I'm not going to let you do the same."

Given that choice, I wouldn't go for a fair but physically unlivable world.

You say that know. I'm not sure you'd say that if you'd live in a mud hut and your baby daughter would die because of a tape worm.