You can read all about it in the book Kill Bin Laden by Delta commander Thomas Greer, a.k.a. Dalton Fury.
The Great Enrichment Is Real
From about 1800 to the present the world's economy did something good, which looks to be permanent and looks to be justified. If contrary to the evidence we cling to our prejudices about economic history—our view that the Industrial Revolution was improverishng, or...